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4 month sleep regression - co sleeping/self soothing HELP!

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Firesidetreats1 · 02/11/2019 13:05

My little boy is currently 18 weeks old, he was a relatively good sleeper we always had issue from about 5 weeks getting him to sleep but once he was asleep he was fine. He did suffer from reflux and colic.l but that stopped at about 10/12 weeks and everything was getting better. He would go down about 7/8pm and wake up once between 2 and 4. We have always struggled with naps due to his reflux he would never take them and when we managed them it would have to be on me as he wasn’t comfortable lying flat. Nap lengths have improved but I’m still unable to have him nap anywhere but me. I’ve tried putting him in his cot it just takes so long for him to settle and then he usually ends up just wide awake again. Recently he’s been going to bed at his normal time of about 7 - putting him in his cot and then waking up between half 9 and half 10.. I don’t know if this is my fault as he had dropped a feed so I started dream feeding him when I went to bed. But now he won’t settle and he ends up co sleeping in our bed! I’ve been reading about self settling but I just don’t understand he just won’t do it! I’ve tried stroking his and shushing nothing is seeming to work to get him to settle in his cot.

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Harrysmummy246 · 02/11/2019 21:17

He's very very young to be sleeping at night and on his own without anything but a feed to settle him.

I think DS had EVERY day time nap on me til nearly a year old. THen gradually worked towards lying beside him and rolling away

None of these wakings are your fault. It is developmental.

Plus I think you've just been lucky up til now with only one waking!

Firesidetreats1 · 03/11/2019 09:18

Thank you! I’m just worried I’m creating bad habits, it’s not ideal for him to be in bed with us and I’m worried he’ll never end up in his own room and just want to sleep with us. Ah that’s good to know about your baby, I was just thinking it’s mine who will only nap on me and people keep telling me I’m spoiling him by doing this.

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Harrysmummy246 · 03/11/2019 15:21

It's only a 'bad habit' if someone tells you it is. It's a biologically natural way of doing things.

As for bed sharing? Well at 2.4, sometimes I'm in with DS but occasionally I wake up in my own bed (we did have a reasonable spell of this before a million colds back to back) and it's partly laziness/ sleep maximisation on my own part

Giraffe888 · 03/11/2019 16:49

I could have written your post! My DS is 15 was. Still suffering with colic and bad trapped wind during the night which gives him tummy ache.

He has 99% of his naps during the day on me, odd occasion I can put him on our bed and lie beside him.

He’s got a snuzpod which he’ll only sleep in for an hour or two, if I try and put him back in it he just screams until I pick him up so we end up co-sleeping.

I’m not too worried as he’s still so small. I don’t care what others say as all babies are different and develop at different times x

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