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When will the 4 month regression pass?

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jessetta28 · 18/02/2021 13:26

My 5 month old is an awful sleeper.
Her regression hit in early Dec at 12 weeks - she is now 22 and no sign of improvement. Her longest ever stretch of sleep was 3.5 hours - on a particularly good night she slept at 7 and woke 10, 1 and 4 for feeding but on average she wakes between 6-10 times each night. She is fed and cuddled before bed then goes to sleep in her cot from drowsy (we pick up if upset and she calms really quickly) then fed back to sleep at night if needed or lies briefly on me on the duvet if not. She will not settle without it though. We barely ever have long wakeups and she has c. 3 -3.5 hrs of naps a day.

3 feeds in the night seems perfectly doable to me, this amount of wake ups is not. I know we can’t sleep train yet and I don’t know what to do to improve the situation. Has anyone found it actually passing by itself after this length of time?!

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User0ne · 18/02/2021 13:32

Are you bf? If so then I'd recommend co-sleeping and learning to feed while lying on your side. Your dc will be able to do self service without waking you once they've learnt how to feed like that

jessetta28 · 18/02/2021 14:42

Yeah, I am and have done that when she was a little younger, but she was reverse cycling quite badly until a couple of weeks or so and we’ve just got her feeding much more in the day again so I worry we’ll go back again. It makes me nervy not knowing when she’s feeding (small baby!)

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