We’re just about to enter week 5 of what I think is the 4 month sleep regression. My DD is 19 weeks and has been waking up every 1–2hrs each night after about 11pm and then is awake for the day at 5 😑
She was a decent sleeper to begin with and sucks her thumb so puts herself to sleep at all nap times and when she goes to bed at 7. So this is what is confusing me! Everything I have read seems to say that you need to teach them to self sooth to stop the multiple wakes ups, but she can!! She just chooses not to between 11pm-5am! She naps fairly well in the day, goes down 1hr 45 mins after waking each time and has 1 or 2 long naps and 1 or 2 short naps depending on what she feels like doing. In fact the week the regression started she started taking longer 90min or 2hr naps. This also confused me as I thought naps were meant to shorten during the regression?
I have been feeding her each time she wakes as it’s the quickest way to put her back to sleep. So I wonder if I’ve caused some kind of nighttime boob addiction! If you try and settle her it turns into crying fairly quickly. We have DD1 age 3 who is just next door and we’re very conscious of not waking her up.
I guess I’m wondering if I should just go with the flow and hope it sorts itself out or should I be trying to do something about it. I don’t really want it to involve crying at this stage as I’m not ok with that, plus we have our DD1 to consider.
We are planning on moving DD1 into a new bedroom at the end of August which is further away. We can then move DD2 out of our room and into the room next door. We’re wondering if this will make a difference.
If you’ve made it to the end of this long ramble thank you 🙏