Is this the 4 month sleep regression?

[BastetBaby]

My baby is 3.5 months and has been a good sleeper: often sleeps for a 5-6 hour stretch, wakes just once in the night, falls asleep again pretty easily. But recently she's been waking more frequently in the night and her daytime naps are all over the place. It's getting harder and harder to get her to nap in the day and sometimes she skips naps altogether. Today she hasn't napped for 5 hours! Is this the start of a sleep regression? If so - what do I do???

Hello!

More a messsge of solidarity than anything! I have a baby exactly the same age who seems to be similar sleep wise.

we’ve been out and about these last few days and I think that’s made it worse - so I’m going to get back to at least one contact nap at home each day to make sure she gets the sleep in.

how are you doing a few days on?

Oops I should have said! Very classic sleep regression sign!

It's been a week or so and her sleep is still a bit weird. BUT we've found some things that work.

I've managed to work out which of her night wakings require a feed and which only require a bit of comforting. And I'm managing to comfort her just by holding her hand, so I don't have to lift her out of the cot. So now even though she's waking 3 or 4 times, only 1 or 2 of those require a feed.

Nap wise the thing that's worked the most is not worrying about it! We read in one of our baby books that, basically, babies will sleep when they need to sleep. All you can do is make them as comfortable as possible. If they don't sleep after you've done that, there's nothing you can do, but you also don't need to worry.

My baby girl often does a 4 or 5 hour awake stretch in the evenings now, but it doesn't seem to bother her! She seems less grumpy if we just let her do her thing as opposed to trying to get her to sleep when we think she should.