4-month-old waking every hour at night – how can I help her sleep longer?
My baby is 4 months old, and for the past few weeks she has been waking almost every hour at night. She wants to breastfeed and then goes straight back to sleep.
During the day, she usually only naps for around 30 minutes. If I rock her back to sleep, sometimes she will continue sleeping, but other times she just stays awake.
What am I doing wrong? How can I change this, if it’s even possible? I’m exhausted. 😭
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I have no advice but I am right there with you with my little boy x
You’re not doing anything wrong it’s the 4 month sleep regression. With time she’ll learn to link sleep cycles.. how long that takes is so so baby dependent.
In the meantime co-sleeping and feeding side lying if you’re not already will get you the most rest x
Exactly the same as my baby boy!
As Yasmin above said, we are co-sleeping and feeding side lying! 😴 X
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