HELP

My almost 4 month old has always been somewhat a shit sleeper, needing contact naps during the day that have recently had a stop limit at 30 minutes, to waking 1-2 times in the night sleeping in her next to me, to now, over the past few weeks got progressively worse, still contact naps during the day but fights it so hard, has to be rocked with quite some momentum. To slowly each night becoming a co sleeping baby. Which I hate! And I’m also sure she’s not the biggest fan either. To now waking 4-6 times a night, I know it’s more than likely sleep regression but surely there must be a trick I’m missing here? Half the time she won’t even settle on me day or night, or anyone she just cries whilst you’re trying to rock her but would never fall asleep independently so we have to do this. To night time still tossing and turning and crying whilst on me. Patience is dripping away, and my bags are coming in thick and fast 😭😂

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This sounds like the classic regression. We’ve found the baby carrier for naps/ to get to sleep really helped with the fussiness and fighting sleep x

This is the regression ours hit early too, he rarely naps for long in the day we do 4 small naps, bed and bath at 7pm but he wakes upto 5 times a night. I’ve tried increasing his feeds, making the room warmer, changing his cot and he still wakes up a lot. Even co sleeping he wakes up after an hour 😭 you just have to stick it out and go with their needs and try EVERYTHING first, white noise etc X

I'm right there with you in the trenches with this! The best we are doing is letting the wake windows extend (to like three hours!) in the daytime, so that she is really tired and doesnt fight the nap as much. We rock her, and she seems to go down within five minutes now. Sometimes she doesn't, and if she fights it for more than fifteen minutes we move on - do some more playing and try again later. Absolutely no advice for overnight, it's brutal and I am exhausted! Have tried extending the last wake window to see if that would work, has stopped her screaming before bed but hasn't changed the hour to two-hourly wake ups!

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