What am I supposed to do during sleep regression?

[vanillaskies]

Hi everyone, hoping someone can help as I feel totally confused.

I'm pretty sure we've started the four month sleep regression. DD is waking at 2,4,6,8 after a few weeks of sleeping through.

She seems so unsettled and it's hard to get her back down, but I'm not sure if I should be doing anything.

I keep reading about babies learning to self settle, but all I'm doing is feeding her and using the crib to rock her back to sleep.

Should I do anything else?

Is baby breastfeeding? In which case the night times may be baby's desire to comfort suck rather than calories. A dummy will help with this.

If baby is formula feeding and having 4 bottles over night, you need to focus on significantly increasing daytime calories so that fewer calories are needed at night. Do this by making daytime feeds much more frequent- more feeds per day (pref 4 extra feeds per day, if that was what was given at night).

Also still introduce a dummy for comfort sucking. Great way for baby to learn to resettle without being picked up.