4 month regression survival tips

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Will we ever sleep again?! Trying not to feed on every wakening but would love to know what people have really done to survive and how they got through it eventually? Yes the books/guides/sleep experts say to pause and wait 5 mins to see if baby self settles but can anyone really sit back and do that every 1-2 hours?

Co sleeping ( safely)
Napped in day when someone else took baby
Gave up on notion of routine and just went with it
It felt like forever but was less than 2 weeks.

All the sympathy. It was worse than newborn days for me, less sleep and less help! We’re just coming out of it.

Tips...

1. Acceptance. It’s shit, it’s hard, it will end. It’s not anything you did

1. Accept any and all help possible to enable you to get extra sleep at night or in the day

1. Go to bed early, generally the first stretch of sleep is the longest so get your head down then if you can. Also snacking at night is definitely okay, especially if you’re breastfeeding

1. Encourage a long nap in the middle of the day and shorter naps either side, this we felt gave us the best shot at a reasonable sleep stretch

1. Ignore all advice (obvs including this!) that makes you feel like shitvor like you’re doing something wrong. I genuinely believe all you can do is ride it out and figure out what makes it easier for you and your baby, who you obviously know best

And we stopped waiting for him to try to self settle because he never did it, just got more worked up and more difficult to settle back down.

Thanks both for the reassurance and perspective on it. You're right that I should get some help so will speak to my mum about some day care to give me a break to rest a bit.

It's brutal. But it passes and I felt like it was overall a turning point from newborn sleep stage to much better day and night definition for DD.

It's truly crap! Gone are the blissful days of being able to put DD down easily and then she would clock up 9 hours. Now she passes out on me but wakes once in the crib and she's waking much earlier and for two hours 😭😭😭 I really hope this passes soon x