Baby waking more

[Kathjax]

My 4 month old was at a point of sleeping through the night however for the last few weeks has been waking twice in the night for feeds anyone know why or how to help

Google the 4 month sleep regression. Most babies go through it!

Can I do anything to help it.

Probably not, but knowing that it is temporary and there’s light at the end of the tunnel may help you?

We had very similar at exactly 4 months. Doubled night wakings! Felt horrific after a month of really good sleeping.
It has just passed now at 5.5 months!
You just have to go with the flow of it I think and try and stick to whatever kind of routine you have as it will hopefully pass!

It’s completely draining me hope it passes

There will be lots of ups and downs with their sleep. Especially in the first year. It's a case of enjoying the good times and enduring the bad. Do you have a dp who can help? I used to go to bed when I put the baby down to get as much sleep as possible. And nap in the day whenever you can.sorry you're having a rough time x

My advice would be never to assume that because they start sleeping through that they'll sleep through for ever. It will change a lot over the next few years

I second Sleepings advice, dd has been easy to put to bed and sleeping though for 5 months, and has suddenly hit the 18 month sleep regression, so is now battling sleep and waking every 2 hours. It’s exhausting.

This thing is with babies is that no phase lasts forever, so while you may feel like it will never get better, it really does! And then they do something else to completely throw you off balance.

Download the wonderweeks app - it saved my sanity in the early months, it gives you a good idea of when baby is coming up to a fussy stage, it helps a lot to be able to mentally prepare for tough times.

With my partner working I don’t let him get up in the night as he’s up and out early everyday he’s just started teething too so really wearing me out at the minute x

Could you go to bed early and your partner do the first waking of its before midnight? Then you'd get a good few hours sleep in one go