4 month old sleep gone to pot

[BabyBobbins32]

Hi ladies, any advice would be amazing....My 4 month old has suddenly stopped sleeping well at night. It all started when she ended up in hospital after her men b jab and obviously her sleep was massively disrupted while we were in there. I thought we might be back on track by now though, almost 2 weeks later...now I'm not sure if this is the 4 month sleep regression, she is also teething and has a slight cold! Feeding and naps have also been a bit crap! She is ebf. We've been rocking or feeding her to sleep a lot over the past 2 weeks (whilst in hospital and after) so I'm worried we're developing bad habits. Before this happened she was good at self soothing for most of her naps (occasionally had to rock her for last one of the day) and she was sleeping at least 8 hours at night before waking. She is now waking after a minimum of 4 the first time and then anything from every 1-3hrs after that. She has never been a great napper only 45mins but that hasn't been a huge problem. Any advice would be much appreciated...

Calorific need increases significantly at around 4 months. So baby will need to up her feeding a lot more than previously. If you haven't increased her feeds, try making them more frequent through the daytime. This may help nights.

I would avoid developing habits you are not happy to continue (like rocking) since this will cause problems later. Try settling baby in the cot if possible. I'd recommend introducing a dummy and/or comforter as a sleep trigger for later. May help settling to sleep now.

As long as baby is having plenty of daytime sleep, plenty of daytime feeds and is able to settle to sleep - then it is just a case of waiting it out.

Thanks FATEdestiny...unfortunately I am struggling to get her to take her feeds in the day...I was feeding her about every 2.5hrs...she then naturally stretched this to every 3 but now I'm struggling to get her to take that, she bobs on and off and gets really annoyed with me when I try to feed her, she used to feed for about 20mins now I'm lucky if I get 10...apart from the last feed or two of the day when she will still often feed for 20mins and allow me to cluster feed her a bit. In terms of settling her in her cot any other recommendations apart from shush and hand on chest as this doesn't seem to work? Thanks

Well my recommendation for easy settling independently is a dummy - because that's exactly what its for. Dummies are less effective the later they are reduced though.

Once baby 'gets' the she can suck the dummy and so gain comfort, then cot settling involves reinserting dummy as needed and a reassuring presence.

Do you have a bedside cot? We took one side off out cot and butted it up to our bed. This meant I could lie on my bed buy eye-to-eye right next to her cuddled up as she went to sleep - but in her own space in the cot.

... the later they are reduced introduced though ...

Thanks again for the advice...I've never offered her a dummy, just never felt the need to...until now...I could try it but just don't want to create a habit where she needs it to fall asleep and if it falls out in the night that wakes her as I've heard from friends what a nightmare that can be.
Yes we do have a bedside cot I might try lowering the side like u said. I haven't previously because when she saw me she'd try and play rather than sleep but that was a while ago, might work now. Thanks