How do u know when the regression is over?
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My daughter is just now going thru regression. She’s not sleeping as much as she used to. Shes went from 5-6 naps a day to 1 nap a day. How did you mommas get thru sleep regression?
@Kylie Rose how old is your baby? you may want to drop to 3 or 4 naps a day. It's been 3 weeks of a regression and I decided to sleep train 2 nights ago. She's now sleeping how she was prior to the regression.
@Abby she’ll be 4 months on the 30th. She’s went from 5-6 naps a day to one nap a day that lasts about an hour. It’s frustrating because she’ll get tired but fight it all day
@Abby that's awesome, good for you! May I ask what sleep training approach you took? We're wondering about that too
We did a verrry light version of ferber at about 3.5 months, so I wouldn't even consider that training but we had to resort to the CIO method. I told myself I never would but 3 weeks of up every 2 hours and one night of up every hour and something had to change. We ditched the paci cold turkey and went straight from the Merlin sleep suit to a sleep sack. She's already made huge adjustments and naps have been getting longer too.
@Kylie Rose I would highly recommend watching wake windows and how you set up your babies sleep space. It seems that baby is overtired. At 4 months, we were at 1.5 hour wake windows. If baby cat naps, you can try stretching wake windows slightly to see if that helps but at 4 months, they should be napping 4-5 times.
@Kylie Rose aww poor baby and poor you! My LO would drop a nap sometimes, which is not a concern for us. Instead, the quality of her naps got rough 😒 She'd nap only 5-20mins at a time for 4-6 times a day. If we're lucky, 40 minutes (which requires tons of rocking or attempting to feed during the nap). And each naptime routine, we’d go through whole rituals of trying to rock/bounce for at least 20mins and up to 45 minutes sometimes - my back is killing me 😔 Also, feeding her has been super tough due to regression, I think. Have you or anyone else experienced something similar? And have tips to share or just offer solidarity 🥹
That’s a good question! I googled it and it says anywhere from 2-6 weeks but it also says it depends on each baby! Maybe ask your baby’s pediatrician?! As long as baby’s behavior doesn’t change drastically, I think baby will be fine!