So, this 4 month sleep regression.....

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Well this has well and truly kicked in with my daughter over the last couple of nights. Going from 8-6 sleeping to waking every hour
My question is about feeding, do I feed her when she wakes? Last night she woke at 12 and I fed her naively thinking she would be fine through the night. Then every hour after she woke up and started mumbling away to herself. I offered her her dummy and she eventually managed to go to sleep for about 40 minutes and then the same thing happened again. I did this until 4 and decided to do her some more milk, again she took this like a starving goat.
So she has gone through the night with no feeds, do I now revert back to feeding her? Am I creating bad habits? Please help!

Only one wake up last night! But lots of fidgeting! I'm going to start using my ear plugs again I think. I'm wondering if the cooler weather helped too?
Hope everyone else is surviving ok!

I found last night a bit better too.... 1 feed and 1 dummy wake up..... Keeping my fingers crossed but I just don't think it is over just yet!

Had a nightmare night last night - woke up every hour crying from bedtime till six in the morning. :(

I think she might be teething as well.

Oh blue you poor thing! Hope you have a better night tonight. Do you have anything to ease her teething?

We tried teething gel which worked once but I think you're not supposed to use it too often! Think we might try Calpol tonight if it persists. Sticking everything in her gob today! :p

Calpol does help! And our DD likes to chew on her dummy.... Seems to sooth more than her teething ring. I miss sleep!!

Hello,

thank you all for feedback on this thread .
I was looking for similar experience of sleep problems to understand why my good little boy , who slept through nights from week 10, suddenly unphased at 6 months old.
He is now 12months old and I have had enough of endless bedtime routines, carrying and cuddling until he finally surrendered after another dream feed at 10pm each night.
Not forgetting one or 2 wake up calls in the middle of the night for another feed.
Could I really deny him to feed? What if he was very hungry?
As working mum, I really needed to cut the sleep deprivation right now.
So, for what it is worth, I did try controlled crying last night for 2 times 10 minutes. It actually did work!!!!!! He finally fell asleep by himself for a full 10hour night! The first in the last 6 months.
I am trying again tonight and I hope it is not just a one-off.

Well intentioned advice from so called specialists is nice and lovely, but bedtime routines are not so straight forward to establish with work and child care schedules, and it doesn't guarantee success with strong personality babies.

I am just relieved not being alone in failing on the sleep front. I wish you all get well deserved nights and little ones not keeping you on the edge .

X. H.

How are you all getting on???

I was going to bump this earlier.
Bloody awful!
I'm fucking knackered and dread night times now. My daughter still can't settle and does this annoying leg kick/stomp thing. Any amount of rocking, soothing, feeding doesn't help. As soon as i put her back down the pattern starts again.
How about you?

Ah yes the leg kick! She does it in her sleep and awake so I am never sure what it means and then lie awake waiting for her to cry/talk! She isn't waking up as often but hasn't reverted to the beautiful nights of sleeping through either. She has started going to bed much earlier than before and that seems much smoother. I think all the changes are just happening one after the other and therefore the sleep isn't happening!!

Yeah, my daughter does it in her sleep too, like you I lay there waiting to see if she wakes up!
What time does your littlun wake up now if going to bed earlier?
Last night was a better night, the ear plugs were back in and she woke once at 2am for milk and then slept until 6.45! I think I need to use the ear plugs all the time.

Earplugs .... Genius :) she sleeps anywhere between 7 - 8:30 with the odd (touchwood) 6am. I can't wait until she sleeps through the night again!! I really miss it!