Is anyone on the other side of the 4 month sleep regression?
My baby was an amazing sleeper. Up until 3.5 months she would sleep through the night and would wake up once every week or 10 days at 3 or 4 am. Since then (now 4.5 months) it’s once or twice per night and it takes FOREVER to get her back to sleep. Does it ever get better? I love her so much but also this is truly affecting my mental health.
I am hoping to be able to get through this without sleep training. Does it ever go back to normal? I do let her self soothe when she wakes up, sometimes she’ll fall right back to sleep but if she starts crying properly I do pick her up. Am I setting her up for failure?
PS- I get that is not a regression per se but a developmental leap. I use the term regression as it’s the way it’s generally referred to. I’m sleep deprived and not in the mood for obvious clarifications.
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We've just come out of it and she's back to sleeping great again!
Its hard but will be over soon x
We just came out of it last week (knocks on wood). I will say ours was not TERRIBLE. She went from sleeping 12+ hours through the night to waking at 10-11 hours screaming. And a few nights she had a middle of the night wake that we were able to just put a pacifier in her mouth for. The worst part for us was naps which she would fight and SCREAM to go down and then wake up after 8 to 15 minutes. This past week she is back to sleeping 12+ hours at night and napping for about 30-40 mins at a time and sometimes I can even lay her down with out a drawn out rocking process. It was soooo frustrating but IT WILL GET BETTER! ♥️
how long did it take? And was it sudden that she did or started getting better little by little?
ours also started with naps and I thought that was it. Then night wakings started happening. It’s exhausting.
It was literally one night she was waking every 3 hours as she had been during the leap then the next night slept all night again!! Bliss! 🤣🤣🤣
I hope this comes to us soon! Thoughts and prayers 😅
I safely cosleep, so if any of my kids experienced this, I wasn't aware 😂🤷🏾♀️
A lot of bed sharing/co sleeping babies wake up and go through this. You are one lucky mama! Your baby perhaps wouldn’t wake up even if sleeping in a crib.
I hope it gets better for all of us!
Quite possibly. It's amazing how all babies are indeed different. I hope you will see the end of this leap soon.
I wasn't insinuating that cosleeping would combat/stop this leap as all babies go through it. How it is handled and how long it lasts are the differences.
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