4 month regression?

[SarahDay1990]

I’ve posted about my LOs sleep before and just when I thought it couldn’t get worse it has…she’s 16 weeks and once she goes to bed she wakes 45mins later and thereafter wakes every 45mins/one hour. I used to get 2/3 hour stretch out of her at the start of the night but she wakes as soon as she goes down. Is this a regression? If so how long does it last? How to survive it? I do find she takes a feed before bed and then I hold off and don’t feed her until 3-4 hours later and she will then sleep for couple of hours. So maybe those initial wakes are hunger? If so - how could that be as she’ll have had her bed time feed and is then hungry an hour later? And being so hungry that she can’t settle at all?

Are you breastfeeding? I'm just coming out of the 4m sleep regression with my second daughter (she's a stinking overachiever and started early) and really the only thing that is helped was going to pure survival mode.

I kicked my DH out of bed and coslept safely with my boobs out. Massively minimised the amount of disruption. Also tends to stop you clock watching and counting wakes, which can make a huge emotional difference.

I was BFing but I convinced myself she was waking through hunger (she’s always been an awful sleeper) so switched to formula around 3 weeks ago. I’ve tried a dummy but it won’t work. I’m just not sure if it is a regression or if she is just under tired or over tired…I’m going crazy just thinking about it

Hi Sarah, I've read quite a lot of your posts and know that you've had a history of PND and sleep issues exacerbated that. I really really think you need to invest in a sleep consultant because you just seem completely consumed by sleep issues (understandably!) and you can discuss your issues with them and formulate a plan for the upcoming months with a view to some form of sleep training in the coming months when they are 6 months old. Also, you do sound like you have a brutally awful sleeper and it would be nice for some of the decision making / thoughts of how to improve sleep could be weighted onto someone else and you can just follow a plan rather than agonising about what is the best thing. I'm having an horrific time with my 4 month old at the moment. They did go through a period of 45 minute wake ups a couple of weeks ago (my LO is 19 wks now) and we started to settle down to waking every 3-4 hours which was good but now I've removed swaddle and they're rolling around the cot. They woke every 20-30 minutes the other night because of rolling! Luckily last night we were back to every 3-4 hour wakes! I'm here is you want to chat