3 months sleep regression?

[EffieRose]

Hello
My daughter is coming up to 13 weeks and has generally been a good sleeper up until the past week.
She is only cat napping during the day-exactly 30 minutes and she will be awake. She wakes up cranky and obviously needing more sleep but I can’t get her back to sleep. I’m trying to follow the wake windows but find I am continually trying to get her to sleep now as she gets progressively more overtired throughout the day. By the evening she screams and cries when we hit bedtime. I’ve even tried moving it earlier to see if that will help but not made much difference.

last week she started attempting to roll and so we have had to swap the swaddle for a sleeping bag, which I think may be playing a part.
We were mainly just putting to bed and she was falling asleep with little help, but now rocking, feeding and very loud white noise aren’t helping.

any advice would be so helpful..even if just to say this is normal and will pass. I’m finding it so upsetting and frustrating, especially after feeling we had got a hang of things.

thanks in advance

Hi op am going through exactly same thing all though I'm 2 weeks ahead of u DS is constantly rolling onto his front getting frustrated and waking himself up constantly. I'm BF he normally wakes up 6 times during the night. So I am watching this thread with interest. We're using the love to dream transition swaddle without the arms and that has seemed to help a bit.

We're on week 3 losing the will to live 😩 constantly screaming for ages before every nap. Napping for 30 minutes. Just horrendous!

Same boat here. 30 mins in cot, in buggy, in car. Have tried dark room, white noise, clean nappy just been fed doesn’t make a difference. Less in sling weirdly. will sleep more if held but I can’t facilitate this due to older DC 😩. A screaming overtired baby is the soundtrack to my day and I am losing my mind.

It's normal. It will pass. I felt like you. It's much better now.

When ? 😮‍💨😀 another tired mum here

@laurenGame there's numerous different reasons why babies wake up in the first year of life. This one particular issue caused by getting light phases of sleep at around 4 months is just one. It will likely last a few weeks. For us it was between weeks 13 and 18.

I think the four month regression is particularly brutal, especially if you are a ftm. Generally speaking the baby had begun to settle and sleep a bit better and you just weren't aware it could get worse again. And at this point every day feels like it is about a year long and you're fatigued from the intensity of caring for this tiny creature. I felt like I would die at the time. You also don't know whether to believe what the Internet sleep consultants are telling you about leaving your baby to cry being the only way out of it, as you don't have the past experience to know it's a load of nonsense. You're constantly questioning your instinct and parenting abilities.

I can reassure you though that sleep for us was never consistently that bad again at any point after that regression. Progress is not linear.

I must've read this a million times in the thick of it - sarahockwell-smith.com/2013/08/29/help-my-4-5-month-old-is-sleeping-like-a-newborn-again-aka-as-the-4-5-month-old-babies-from-hell/

following this with interest, my 13 week old has hit the 3 month regression. She’s sleeping worse now than she ever did as a newborn! Previously she was up once or twice in the night for a quick feed and then would immediately resettle, now she’s so restless all night long, feeding more frequently etc.

my first was a terrible sleeper and despite not being a first time mum this time round I’m worried she’s going to stay a bad sleeper!

From 12 weeks I had as you've all described. It peaked at week 17 (some nights were harder than others in that time) and yesterday she turned 4 months old and the last 3 nights have been much more settled (waking to feed 2/3 times and sleeping straight after).

🤞🏻 it passes for you all soon!