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.

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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

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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

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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

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