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Nighttime hourly waking!!

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gg321 · 15/03/2015 21:53

My baby girl is nearly 4 months old. I am exclusively BF. Our problem is her sleep, or lack of it! Most days she will go without a nap, and when she does occasionally have a daytime nap it will only be brief, so you'd probably think she makes up for it a night, and she does get 10+ hours most nights but it is very very broken, often with her waking every hour! She seems to be getting worse not better, in the early days she was doing 3 hour chunks, but not now and I am becoming completely exhausted as cannot get into a deep sleep, usually only getting about 45 mins myself each time she sleeps. We go to bed every night at 7.30 after bath and story ( I know I have no evenings anymore! And lots laugh at me for going to bed at this time with her but I don't mind!) she feeds to sleep and now usually falls asleep just after 8. When she wakes she only usually wakes for 5mins, has a quick feed then straight back to sleep. I don't think she is waking because she is hungry as she only feeds for a few mins, she doesn't cry she just stirs and fusses until I roll over to feed her. I have tried ignoring her to see if she settles herself but then she just cries. She is in with me most nights so it's easy to feed her when she wakes and sometimes in her crib which opens up onto bed. But I just want some longer sleeps from her at night. I think she's over tired in the day which is why she doesn't sleep then because of her broken sleep at night, so I'm thinking if I can sort her night sleeps, daytime naps will come! Or do you think if I get her to sleep better in daytime first her better night sleeping will come?! At night I have tried so much, swaddling, different sleep bags, in the crib, in the bed, different room temps (she does always sleep much better when room is warmer but I then worry it's too warm!) we've tried different feeding routines before bed, lots of feeding pre bed and we've tried leaving more time and big feed just before bed. Tried room in darkness, with light on, tried white noise, I just cannot get her to sleep longer, I've tried changing her nappy, leaving her nappy all night, picking up for winding, not winding I'm just exhausted and convinced now it's just her routine as she's so used to doing it, how can I break this?! I cannot even begin to imagine how I get her to sleep in her own room in a couple of months!!! Advice please!!! I'm just finding night times very hard and it gets to me when my formula feeding friends brag about their baby's sleeping 11 hours straight! How is that fair! I am so dedicated to breastfeeding her, not even expressing, so she is completely reliant on me which I love but all I want is more than an hour sleep at night at a time! My mum has said start introducing solids then she will be fuller so sleep longer, but it's too soon for that isn't it? She said she started me and my sister on solids at my daughters age. Any advice on getting her to sleep for longer much appreciated! (Sorry if Iv gone on a bit!) ??

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Heatherbell1978 · 19/03/2015 12:25

They do grow out of dummies honestly.....I also don't like seeing 3 year olds walking around with them but that's my 7 month old not needing it at night anymore. Another suggestion is, do you have a snuggle blanket thing? That's how I've got DS1 off the dummy at night. I introduced a Ewan the Sheep snuggle when he was about 3 months old. AT that age he didn't do much with it but as he's go older it's become a real comfort for him. I actually bought another one incase I lost one so he now has 2 in his cot so one is always within reach! If he wakes during the night I hear the muffle noises of him rubbing him in his face and he settles back to sleep by himself.

Roseybee10 · 19/03/2015 13:57

4 month sleep regression is awful!!
We had dd1 waking every 45 mins all night every night for 4 months. Nothing we did helped and tbh we just had to wait it out and take turns to deal with her. I would do from 10pm-3 and he would do 3am til 7. That way we both got just enough sleep to function.

My little one wasn't feeding to sleep during the night, a bottle wouldn't settle her, a dummy wouldn't settle Her so it wasn't a feeding association for us.

Really hope it passes quickly for you. I remember how awful it was.
Other than leaving your baby to cry it out to teach her to self settle (which I wasn't prepared to do) I'm not sure how much can be done. It just passes in its own time.
The only thing we found really helped was a good bedtime routine and not putting her to bed too late.
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munchkinmaster · 20/03/2015 07:35

heatherbell I have a nearly three year old who needs to join dummies anonymous. She hasn't had it outside the cot since she was one but negotiations with the dummy fairy are not going well!

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