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4 month old - nap advice PLEASE

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rachel200811 · 25/01/2020 19:04

Hi, my 4 month old has started getting very, very grumpy come 3pm and by 4pm he is ready to sleep and too mad to feed, play or even cuddle. I have to stand up cradling him and rock him to sleep against his will as he grunts at me, then sit silently until he wakes (all it takes is a cough!!) and he's a big, heavy boy. He's always napped wherever he is (pram/car) but is now too interested in the world and wants to be picked up to explore. I'm desperate to get him napping. Advice please!!! To give you some back ground, he has his bath at 7pm, bottle at 7.30pm and in bed (swaddled) at 8pm/asleep by 8.30pm and often wakes within the hour but we resettle him (my hubby gets home late, hence the later routine). He often wakes if he gets out of his swaddle and needs to be rewrapped but won't drift off without it. He sleeps in a sleepyhead in a next to me cot attached to the bed with a my hummy and has a BF about 5am, then sleeps from 6am until 9am when he has a bottle. We combi feed and he has 6oz bottle then boob on alternate feeds, 6 feeds a day roughly. Even if I can get him to have an hour or two from 2pm I think it would make him happier but when I put him down in the day he coo's until he's bored then shouts for me, getting progressively madder so I end up picking him up and rocking him to sleep then stay pinned down in silence until he wakes which doesn't take long. Tried swaddling, dark, light, a mobile, silence, music, white noise... we are often out and about but if I have to change my days to be home by nap time, so be it!! Any advice would be greatly appreciated. X

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rachel200811 · 25/01/2020 19:32

EDIT: I sound like I'm complaining about him here but it's not meant that way, I'm very lucky he's great at night and I want him to nap properly to make HIMA happier, not to give me a 'break' from letting him sleep on me. I feel blessed every day to even have him, I just want to get it right so he's a happy boy in the afternoons and he can eat, bath and play without feeling too tired after 3pm. X

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HotGlueGun · 25/01/2020 20:02

Hey there.... babies go through a big sleep regression / developmental leap at 4 months which interferes with their nighttime sleep and naps. It could be this. Have you got the WonderWeeks app? Explains a lot about how their sleep changes. It might just be a phase.

rachel200811 · 25/01/2020 20:34

Oh my god, of course!!!! Yes, I didn't put two and two together though. As the sleep regression helps their ongoing sleep patterns is there a healthy way I can introduce day naps at this stage in his bed? He is sleeping very lightly at night lately too. Every noise wakes him!! X

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