5 month sleep regression?

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In the last week, dd has gone from sleeping from about 7pm through until anywhere between 2am and 5am pretty reliably to suddenly waking up at 11pm every night - or tonight, only half an hour later. Previously she'd stir but she'd resettle, whereas now she's waking up crying. Once she's up it's impossible to get her back in her cot. She's 21 weeks, could this be a late 4 month sleep regression or is it something else? Do I need to change anything? Help!

Yeah it's most likely that regression, the 4 months is a guide. Some babies struggle with teething, where there's a lot going on beneath the surface for ages and nothing to see but a grizzly baby and sleepless nights.

Also things tend to come together, so developmental leap, teething, sniffles/ colds/ bugs.

5 months is when sleep went tits up here! Slept through before then which is totally normal as sleep isn't linear. We ended up cosleeping at that point.

Thanks so much for the responses, she is also a bit snuffly and possibly teething so it makes sense that it's all just coming together with the regression. Do I just, keep consistent and wait it out?

We ended up cosleeping last night as well, we may need to buy a bigger bed at this rate! How is it for you now?

My DS went on a crib strike at 3.5 months so we started cosleeping with him then and have gotten waaaay more sleep than we ever got when he was in his crib! I’m going to start trying to transition him back to the crib soon though… fingers crossed.

He is now 22 weeks and doing some hardcore nap fighting (30-95 minutes to get him to sleep) and has suddenly started waking on the dot at 5am, 6am and up for the day at 7.30am. We never had any problem with early waking before… He has also needed a lot of rocking when he wakes up at night whereas I can usually get him back to sleep with the boob. I’m thinking a developmental leap?

Similar here 😩 5months and he is now waking up before I go to bed and then around 1am, 3am and is wide awake around 5am! What do I do?? I'm also trying not to feed him every time he wakes up as I've been told it's a bad habit? Helppp

I'm glad it's not just us, although sorry to hear others are also suffering at the moment! We had one normal sleep (down at 7, up at 3, back down at 5 til 7) but then last night was hellish again and both days looked pretty much the same in terms of naps etc.

I'm also nervous of feeding too much overnight as if anything I think she's nearly ready to drop night feeds usually.

We're over a week in now and I'm really hoping this is a two week leap and not just how it is now... I'm
scared to do anything in the evenings as I'm watching the monitor dreading going back up there.

My DS is 4.5 months now and his sleep took a turn for the worse from around 3.5 months. He doesnt have consistent wake times at all.. he consistently goes to bed around 6/7 but then wakes plenty times after.. 11:00, 01:30, 03:30 and up for the day by 05:00 😭 Im just trying to go with the flow on this and not keep track too much of how much I’m up at night as it helps me not become despondent!

How did this end up for you all? What did you do?? My baby is 5 months and sleep is worse than ever!! We are also bf and I worry about feeding him so much during the night when previously he wasn’t feeding so much in the night!!

Still cosleeping with my milk-obsessed 15mo! Sleep has gone up and down (I remember particularly bad stretches around 4, 8 and 12 months and when he started walking at 13-14m) but generally gotten better in that he wakes less, hardly needs to be bounced back to sleep and does longer stretches in the evening before I come to bed with him. Bedtime still usually takes 45 minutes though… and he still has a lot of milk at night! It’s not for everyone, but for me the easiest thing is just to keep sleeping together, then I don’t have to get up to soothe him, which takes so much more energy for me. Having said that, I haven’t tried to do anything else with him either, just took the path of least resistance! @R184 Is your baby waking up very frequently?