4 month regression tips

Keep nap times as consistent as possible but follow baby cues. Good luck x

If you can, try getting her to settle to sleep when already down, rather than putting her down asleep. If it just doesn’t work don’t panic or put too much pressure on yourself though.

Not all babies have a 4 month regression so you might be lucky.

You can’t 😂 my little girl started it at 12 weeks as well so it doesn’t just come at 4 months 😂

My first sailed through the regression and I thought people going through it were maybe over-exaggerating…. well, we’ve just come out the other side with my little boy and it was awful 🫠
He was waking every 2 hours at night and would only settle by being rocked to sleep, and then wouldn’t go back in the cot without screaming. So some nights I was holding him for 3 hours 😵‍💫
After 3 weeks of torture (and one particular night of only having 80 minutes broken sleep) I spent a whole weekend focusing on sleep training, so all naps and bed time I was putting him down without rocking. Eventually it all clicked into place and his sleep went back to normal.
If he does wake in the night now (and isn’t hungry), he is easily settled without picking up (mostly) or settles himself.

So… all babies are different, but just in case, I would have a look into sleep training methods so you’re ready 🤞🏼

of course! My friend had sent me a page from the book “Save our Sleep” and I very loosely followed that as a guide.
He’d go into his cot awake, but I follow wake windows so usually about 20 minutes before he was due to sleep (I didn’t know how long it would take him to settle but the longest was about 30 mins in the beginning).
He’d start fussing as soon as I put him down but if he was only making “protest cries” then I would leave him. So these cries are just more whiney, when they make that ‘eh’ sound, rather than when they’re full upset and crying - it’s hard to explain but you’ll be able to tell the difference. I’d try and leave him for 5 minutes (I use to just lie on the bed next to him, I didn’t leave the room). Some times the cries would get slower and die out as he was drifting off. But mainly in the beginning he’d get worked up.
So once the real crying would start I would first try to settle him with belly rubs and light shushing. If this didn’t work I would then…

… pick him up and hold him upright (as he tends not to fall asleep if held that way). Once he’d stop, I’d put him down and start again. But once I’d picked him up, I would just continue with belly rubs and shushing, I wouldn’t leave him to fully settle on his own that time. If he got worked up again, I would pick him up and repeat.
Then the next time around, he was a bit more accepting of the belly rubs as help to settling.
Sometimes he was so tired that he did fall asleep once picked up, then I would just put him down gently and try again on the next nap.
I started with naps so he had good practice through the day before attempting bed time.
I did three days “intense training” where I did this every nap and it did click eventually. My nights were definitely better after 3 days. But even now some naps are successful and he does it fully on his own, but some I have to help a little and some he needs to be rocked.