4 months old sleep regression is breaking me

[butternut22]

Morning. Me DS is 4 months old and for the past week has been waking every 1.5 hours all night. He goes to sleep about 8 in the evening and sleeps for 2 hour's and then it is every 1.5 hours after the that. Every time he wakes he seems to want to feed (I am BF). He won't take a bottle so I can't have a break at all. I have had a feel of his gums and don't think he is teething. I have a 2.5 year old who has just dropped his day time nap so sleeping in the day is not an option.

Does anyone have any tips/ideas to get him to sleep for longer at night? He does not nap for long in the day either.

Really struggling!!!

Morning!

My DD's milk intake increased by 25% at the 4 month point, and stayed that high permanently. It was feeding a lot more (more frequently and larger amounts) that solved the sleep issues around 4 months for us.

I would also recommend a dummy, great for settling breastfed babies who like to suck. You may struggle with establishing a dummy if your LO won't take a bottle (similar feeling in the mouth). But IMO the bottle and dummy are definitely worth persevering with, since the value of having both in the months to come far, far out-weighs any difficulty getting them accepted.

If baby doesn't sleep much in the daytime, then sorting daytime sleep may well resolve some of your nighttime problems. Over tiredness is self-perpetuating and leads to worse sleep. I'd aim for 30-60 minutes sleep every 2 to 2 1/2 hours through the daytime. I'd recommend a bouncy chair for daytime naps when you are a busy mum with other children to entertain.

Hi, Just wanted to pop in and say it does end! DD started this at 3 months, Ealing every 45 mins to an hour after having had 2 or on a good night 3 hours at the start of the evening. By the time I was getting in bed she'd be awake every hour. I thought I'd go mad it was awful!

I read every book and was planning my attack on this horrendous sleep habit when one night I laid her down and she opened her eyes, I thought "shit!" but she just looked about and then fell asleep. She's breastfed and normally sucks to sleep.

Now she's doing 3 hourly wakes which is a damn sight better. I did a few things but don't know if any of it had an impact or if she just decided to settle.

It took a month and a half though. But there is light at the end of this very dark tunnel!