4 month sleep regression. Do you feed if baby wakes up?

So my baby has not woken up for a feed for a long time. She woke up and I was unsure if she was hungry, I changed her and put her back down and she was chewing her hands. I made her a bottle to give her a feed. She was drinking it and half way though, like I normally do to give her a burb. She was sick so it made me think she wasn't hungry.

Read more on Peanut

The views expressed in community are solely the opinions of participants, and do not reflect those of Peanut.

Learn more about our guidelines.
Add a comment
Avatar

Although I can’t really help, as I’ve not experienced it yet- I do know that after the newborn stage, chewing on hands is not really a reliable hunger cue. So perhaps she wasn’t?! If it had been a while since last feed, I think you did the right thing by offering!

Avatar

Offering food is the right thing. I'd she wasn't hungry she wouldn't of ate it. You don't want to starve her. My little one sucks his thumb all the time, and I can't tell the difference between a hunger suck or o just comforting one x

Avatar

I always offer boob if when she wakes and every time she will take it, whether it be a few mins or a full feed. That’s the only thing that will settle her back to sleep otherwise she will cry x

Avatar

I personally haven’t fed my baby once through his sleep regression. He has been sleeping from 7.30pm - 6am and he has in the last week been waking and cooing or a little cry/ kicking around. I just put on some white noise, offer a dummy and rock his next to me gently and he falls back to sleep. I actually haven’t picked him up except for once when he really cried. He is exactly 4 months old and is putting himself back to sleep. I won’t offer a bottle as he has been sleeping through and don’t want him to think it’s new and part of a routine to have a bottle during the night. If he was visibly hungry and upset then of course I would but what I’ve been doing is working for us. He just wakes himself up and needs a little comfort to get back to sleep xx

Avatar

No, it can make then reverse cycle. Could be chomping on her hands to settle herself back to sleep?
It’s tough, but i won’t feed my boy until gone 4-5am.
Does she have plenty in the day? My LB has had 30-34oz by bedtime so i 100% know he doesn’t need more!

Avatar

My baby is going through a sleep regression and it’s our 3 week on it now. I tried everything to put him to sleep and nothing works except feeding.

Avatar

same as our baby it’s torture isn’t it x

Avatar

I did - it was the only thing that would settle her. I didn’t want to incase it lead to reverse cycling but at the same time you never know if they are having growth spurts and need the extra milk. I would suggest just doing a small bottle as it might just be for comfort and allow her to settle back down. My little one has just come out of regression after 4 weeks and luckily no bad habits seem to have stuck, she is back to just wanting her 1 feed at night

Avatar

it is, I’m really tired and it fills it’s never ending, but let’s hope it will have an end soon. Good luck you too xx

Read more on Peanut

Trending

in our community

Did you know this was a thing?

Didn’t know this existed! I’m actually not breastfeeding 2nd time round (though wish I did) after a bad experience with my 1st baby. But this is something I 100% needed 1st time round.

Avatar

9

3

How do you dry your 🐱?

Looking to settle a debate with husband, he is teaching our girls to dry themselves after they shower, i am teaching them to dry to a certain point on the inside but not between

Avatar

20

Circumcision, please help

I know it can be a really sensitive topic, but I feel really underinformed about whether I should choose to circumcise or not if we end up having a boy.
For context: we are very non-religious, but I worry about the stigma of being non-circumcised when he would start to get interested in dating, navigating cleaning it and the risk of infection especially as he gets older and navigating potty training at daycare and stuff. I also worry about the increased risk of penile cancer. But then I also hate the thought of making my baby go through a major surgery unnecessarily and would prefer for them to make the choice when they are older if they choose to get circumcised.

How did you make your choice? Does anyone regret their choice?

Avatar

21

How do I end this friendship

My best friend of 15 years and I are in similar stages of life and her behaviour has gotten increasingly erratic and triggering. I am about to have my first baby and she is struggling with postpartum from her second who was born last August. All the “normal” post partum depression symptoms I totally understand but she has also in my opinion made a lot of selfish choices recently.

She is constantly yelling and berating her husband and kids as well as flying off the handle at the tiniest things and it’s super triggering for me coming from a previous abusive relationship. She’s honestly being abusive to her family.

I feel like she always makes everything about herself and her reasoning has gotten soooo misconstrued. She acts only on her emotions and doesn’t care about anyone else’s. She never accepts any constructive criticism or advice even though she complains 24/7 about everything.

She says she hates being a mom and doesn’t want to be around her kids , hates her marriage, hates her job, and complains 24\7 and refuses to do anything to change. She also makes everything about herself including my baby shower we just had. She’s made rude comments to my spouse as well.

I don’t have many mom friends but at this point she is just not the type of person I want to be around because she is being so mean and wanting to bring everyone down with her. Also I am about to have my first baby and just want to focus on me.

Avatar

1

7

no screen mums!!

are you absolutely 0 screens household? my boy is 6mo and me and my partner agreed no screens till 3yo, but I'm a sahm and showering is HARD when I'm alone, I've been thinking about recording myself singing the songs he likes and showing it to him for being able to shower.
What do you do?

Avatar

17

New jabs

My daughter had her 1 year jabs but there are new ones I didn’t know existed so now I have no idea how to help her I’ve given her calpol and giving her a nice warm bath later on after tea but these are effecting her more than her last, any suggestions please?

Avatar

4

Read more on Peanut