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@Chelsea omg how did you even manage to get that long !! We’ve now hit the regression she slept a hour tops the last few nights
I genuinely believe it’s just how the baby is tbh Because I didn’t do anything really, unless it was all the tactics we did to get him down maybe? We played heartbeat sounds on YouTube on the phone through the whole night, we had projector light on (although now he’s too nosey because he can see it), we had blanket rolled up in a U shape at the bottom of the bed with a blanket over the top of it so it was like a little nest as we do that in hospital for the babies. Because he was a nightmare to be put in the cot but once he was he was down from like week 8 to week 14
My little one is 4 months and we’re still waking a lot. I’ve introduced a formula dresmfred and he sleeps a lot longer ! Xx
Nope!
Hey I’ve got a 4 month old who usually goes about 4-5 hours the odd time he goes 6-7 (rare) but he isn’t usually getting to sleep until 1-3 o’clock in the morning at the moment assuming because of the sleep regression x
Mine has never slept through the night (she did 7 hours once!) but she sleeps longer stretches of 4-5 hours usually once a night/every other night but not consistently. I basically never know what I'm gonna get! It's frustrating and exhausting, I feel you. I have no advice as we really just go with the flow...
My 4 month old goes 3 hours on the dot. I’ve had a couple of nights where she’s gone 5 hours, but also some where she’s gone 1.5 hours!
Yes. 17 weeks on Monday. Exclusively breastfed and has slept through the night since 6 weeks. Last feed at 11pm and sleeps until 7am when my partners alarm goes off
Ebf was sleeping 6-8 hours before regression. In regression waking every 2 or 3 for a feed, after a few weeks I realised it's not because she's hungry it's because she has a feed to sleep association. I'm now not feeding her to sleep and if she wakes before 12 I won't feed her and then will only feed when she wakes if it's been 4 hours since the last feed. One night of protest and now moving back to 5-6 hour stretches. The method was in the book Precious Little Sleep. Obvs if baby is underweight, poorly or distressed I wouldn't do this. But breaking the boob to sleep habit has really helped and she's not ravenous in the morning.
@Kash omg you angel! I’m going to have to try it Now you mention it during the night he refuses his dummy but want boob but not for feed But then I don’t understand during the day takes the dummy to go to sleep We are every hour and it’s absolutely killing me
@Kash how do you get her back to sleep without the boob? I feel like my partner could rock her but with me, she'd scream the place down! 😬
It's hard because boob to sleep always works and the last thing I want to do at 3am is fight her to sleep but I really think it might be the way through. Babies are all so different though and admittedly she was a good sleeper pre regression. Good luck!! I sent you a message by the way
I feel like that’s the thing she’s boob to sleep maybe i need to try stop that !
@Audrey the first night it took over an hour of my husband picking up rocking and putting down, patting, shushing, dummy, all of it! After that initial protest night she seems to be resetting in the crib with dummy, shushing and patting. I think because we're not boobing her to sleep at bedtime now she's learning how to settle better during wake ups. We're only 4 days in though, anything could happen, but I had to try something and so far so good 🙏
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@Kash I don’t know what to do with my girl she hates a dummy only likes her thumb and doesn’t like any toys or anything yet for comfort we have like no routine because my partner is 9/10 is back home around 7/8 so then we have to do tea and ideally her bedtime will be around that time so normally start her routine after which there isn’t anything to the routine
@Kash oh and to top it off during naps in the day I can’t put her down she will only nap on me
It's really hard, I would recommend the book Precious Little Sleep. It has lots of useful tips and tricks in.
Yes my boy has slept through about 10 times now, he normally just wakes up once. He feeds a LOT during the day which seems to get him through!
My baby was sleeping minimum 6hours but a lot of the time going 8/9/10 and even 11 hours! Then the 4 month regression hit…. And it’s hit hard 😭 I’m lucky if I get 5hours (1 hour at a time)