4 month sleep regression

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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any advise please. My ds is 14 weeks old. He is usually very chilled and happy little boy. So he used to have a dream feed at 10pm or 11pm then he would sleep 3/4h then 3h and 3h. In the last couple of weeks he has started going from 11pm to 5am, then I would feed and change him and put him back to his bed (next to me). He wakes a few times in the night, but usually the dummy or a belly rub and he is back to sleep straight away. Usually only needs the dummy to go over, then will spit it out. Anyway, when he wakes in the night before 4 or 5am it doesn’t seem like he is hungry, because he goes over so quickly and usually when he wants fed he will move his head from side to side. Recently he has started to really flight going to sleep to the point were I have to walk the room after his bedtime routine (usually I could have put him down half a sleep) he constantly needs the dummy and he is wakening nearly every hour looking for the dummy. I thought it might have been early teeth because he is constantly biting down on his thumb and drooling. Also he has went from consistency drinking 6oz to only taking 4oz with the odd 6oz bottle durning the day.

Any suggestions on what I can do? I am presuming this is the famous 4 month regression, but starting early or is this just my new normal?

I can’t put him down without rocking (although I do try, alongside some white noise, but he usually cries)

Used to love the pram, doesn’t love it anymore and it doesn’t put him to sleep, it’s almost as if he gets over stimulated durning the day now.
Been sticking with bedtime routine, should I bring it earlier than him being asleep for 8pm?

Any advise welcome
TIA

The "4 month regression" is really poorly names because (a) it's a progression not a regression and (b) it happens when baby leaves the fourth trimester, which is from 13-14 weeks.

Anyhoo, that's what is happening here.

Regarding feeding, try offering more bottles per day. So instead of (for example) 6oz every 3h, give bottles every 2h throughout the daytime. Still have 6oz in the bottle incase it's drank, but even if 4oz is drank that's still more calories in him (bottles at 5am 7am 9am 11am 1pm 3pm 5pm 7pm 9pm 11pm).

Daytime naps are important too, to avoid overtiredness at night. 60-90 minutes awake time between naps would be a reasonable approximation, shorter if the nap is short.

Those together give you a cycle lasting approximately 2h that you repeat throughout the day where baby sleeps for say 30-60 mins then has one full feed in every 60-90 min awake window and back to sleep. Repeat that from waking (5am) until you go to bed (say 11pm), just making the awake times after 7pm ish limited and short.

Then at night, if you sort daytime sleep and calories, you want to go back to what you were doing. So feed and wind and into cot. Then just keep doing dummy reinserts and hand on chest type things until into a deep sleep (when dummy drops naturally). Keep doing the same thing at every wake up and baby will soon learn to link sleep cycles without much help.