Please someone tell me that after the 4 months sleep regression my baby will go back to sleeping 10-12 hours stretches 😫
I was super lucky and he slept through the night from around 6 weeks, we even got to sleeping around 12-13 hours straight so obviously we got used to the good life 😅
We are now in the second week of him waking up often and has a very agitated sleep (he is well burped etc) but after the first 4 hour stretch is when he will start throwing his legs, making dinosaur noises 😅
He now sleeps in his cot but we moved it to our room, stuck to our bed, this helps him calm down a bit and now only has a bottle between 2-4 am
I am not getting more than 1.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep during the night and it’s getting to me 😫 plus I have a really hard time to fall back asleep and on top of this I’m a very light sleeper
My husband is great and he takes over on weekends but during weekdays he needs his sleep as he is working (I am not expecting him to do the nights)
I need positive stories here as I’m loosing my mind 🥹
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It is hard, I'm sorry. It doesn't last forever. I'd just note that you need sleep too - looking after a baby all day is work, just as much as a paid job! So it wouldn't be unreasonable to share the load more on weeknights.
Yes second this. Id find going to work easier than looking after baby at home !
It’s such a hard stage and might be over in a couple of weeks but if I’m honest we didn’t start to see consistent improvements again until 10 months with our son as I would never entertain any form of sleep training that involved crying. The time does pass and you will sleep again one day x
We are going through this too. I’m like a yo-yo putting her dummy back in and eventually I give up and get up as I’m so awake. She normally for this until 1.30am making cat being strangled noises and then settles until 4.30 when she starts again, every 30mins-1 hour.
On the wonder weeks app it does say it’s a fussy phase and they may want a bottle during the night again but I haven’t given her one yet. I usually say to myself once more and I’ll make one but that’s when she usually has a 3/4hour break. It will pass…eventually 🤣
Thanks Fiona, that is literally my life and I’m so glad that he at least takes the dummy 😅
Sending love and strength to get through this
I honestly thought the same at first, that he wasn’t hungry, just being fussy. But oh my god, if he fully wakes up, those two minutes waiting for the bottle are pure chaos 😅 he screams like he hasn’t eaten in days!
He has his last bottle just before bed around 7pm and goes down at 7:30.
Last night at 4 a.m he demolished a 210ml bottle (first time he’s ever had that much!) and I read that this sleep regression usually overlaps with growth spurts and development leaps 🤦🏻♀️
I’m a FTM and probably read way too much, but he’s also showing some signs of teething, so I’m just hoping it’s not all happening at once 🥹
We had this for about a week extra waking up, only sleeping for 3/4 hour stretch instead of his 6/7 hour stretch ( never been lucky with him sleeping 12 hours 😅) but it seems to of settled again for now. 🤞
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