4 month regression

[ivf2022]

Hello,

Anyone got any tips for getting through the 4 month sleep regression?

DS has never been a brilliant sleeper but the past couple of weeks he is waking every 1-1.5 hours in the night. Some nights every 45 mins. At the start of the night he goes into his crib awake and gets himself to sleep. During the night I tend to feed when he wakes then he goes back to sleep easily (until 4am then needs a bit of help to get back to sleep).

Any advice to get him sleeping more? Or to help me get through it?!

Oh it’s so tough isn’t it?
The best thing for me was co sleeping and breastfeeding lying down so you can get some sleep too. Is that an option for you? Not sure if your baby is FF or BF.
Honestly, what has also helped me is to not get too hung up on “sleep regressions” (Google any month and it will tell you there’s a regression!) Your baby’s sleep most likely won’t be linear, there will be good nights and bad nights. You’ll feel like you’ve made a step forward and then it’s two steps back. All you can do is support them as best you can, get as much support from others as you can and rest when you can!
its a rollercoaster but I’m told one day it gets better 🤞🏼

Thank you. I think you're absolutely right about not getting caught up on 'regressions'. It can be easy to get hung up on it and become quite negative so I'm going to try and let go of that.

We haven't managed cosleeping so far. I did try in desperation the other night, but he wouldn't latch when laying down together. Might have a practise of it in the daylight!