E is 4.5 months old and has been waking every 3 hours or so to eat, at least I assume she is hungry so I feed her, which may be my own mistake. She was going 5-8 hour stretches so I'm wondering if it's a combination of teething and sleep regression. How often was your LO waking at this age? Should I be offering the pacifier vs feeding her every time? I'm wondering if she is now just waking out of habit vs hunger. Any tips for me?
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at that age M was waking anywhere from 2-6 times per night, usually 3-4. that was a very rough age for us, sleep wise. you could try offering paci instead and see if it helps! M never took the paci so nursing was really my only option
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She was usually up four times a night at that age. I hope it gets better for you soon!
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About 3-4
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DS woke up allllll the time but dd sttn!
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Probably 6-10.
don't take any advice from me.
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anywhere from 1-3 times.
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Oh my gosh I'm so glad it's not just me though, whew! It's crazy I can't remember anything from my first LO!
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Maybe once, usually none. Don't hate me.
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2-3 times/night. I nursed at every wakeup because it was a sure way to get her back down quickly so the exhaustion trumped the possibility of bad habits!
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DD wasn't waking up to eat in the night by that age. I would say she was a *very* good nighttime sleeper though. She was still waking up in the night, but I would offer her a pacifier and she would go back to sleep. I always offered a pacifier when she woke up from a very early age. I think that helped her to have a non-food sleep association, but I don't think it's the only reason that she was such a good sleeper. To this day, she sleeps like a rock at night.
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I think 2-3 wake-ups was typical (but worse nights certainly happened!)
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The 4 month regression is a bitch. We had 1-2 wakeups, and even some nights of essentially STTN, from about 8 weeks until 3.5 months. Then, it was every 2-3 hours. Sometimes more often than that. We sleep trained and got down to 2-3 wakeups instead of 5+ at 4.5 months.
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Generally 1-2. She'd sleep 2:45-2:30ish, eat and then sleep until about 8. Sometimes there would be a 6am-ish feeding.
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2-3 times a night between 4-5 months. I always nursed back to sleep. After 5 months she went back to 1-2 times and by 7 months 1 time around 5am.
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The 4 month regression was rough. We had a minimum of 4 night wakeups during that time period! I just fed him and he went right back to sleep each time. I figured it was a growth spurt and he was hungry, so I didn't worry about offering something other than food. He went back to 2 night wakeups after 2-3 weeks.
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1-2x a night for both kids
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Still in the thick of it since she's JUST turned 4 months, but she's up 4-7 times a night the last few weeks
I always nurse back to sleep because ain't nobody got time for that.
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Def sounds like 4 month sleep regression! DS slept 5-6 hours then up every 2-3 the rest of the night...until he was 3.5 months. Then he was awake every 1-2 hours! And had to be bouced or nursed to sleep. After 4-5 weeks of that we were at our wits end and chose to sleep train.
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All the time. I kept a log and looked it up. Around 4 months, it was 5-7 times a night, by 5 months it was 4-5. Then she learned to flip onto her stomach and was waking around 3 or 4 times a night by 6 months.
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@Silva: ha! Me too!
I can never offer sleep advice. Only commiseration. -
Usually once, sometimes twice. BUT we had a couple mini-regressions just after 4 months where she basically didn't sleep at all for two nights in a row (this happened twice, about a week apart). Fortunately she went back to normal-for-her pretty quickly!
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EVery 3 hours, and is now waking every 2.5 at 8 months.
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That age was terrible for us! She would wake anywhere from 3 to 15 times per night (10 was typical).
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Wow! Well I guess it could be worse. She flips to her stomach a lot then gets stuck there because for some reason she can't flip the other way. This too shall pass!
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M is the same way. He's up eating about 3 times a night.
D was sttn at this age, so this is new territory for me.
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2-4! This was a REALLY rough stretch for us, and then we sleep trained at 6.5 months and got down to 1 waking--heaven!
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Every hour on the hour. At least. Until she was 7.5 months.
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@locavore_mama:
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@Mrs. Champagne: LOL "When a crap sleeper gets worse" was the story of our first 8 months. Thankfully at 7.5m roughly she started STTN here and here.
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LO woke every 45 minutes to about an hour fifteen minutes. Every night. Until she was 9 months.
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HAAAHHHAAAHHAA. She was up preeeetty much hourly (co-sleeping). Her sleep started to go to shit around 3.5 months, progressively got worse, and at 6 months I sleep trained/crib transitioned.
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Once we got through the 4 month sleep regression (during which she woke up every 2-3 hours), she was up 2-3 times per night (between 7 pm and 7 am), usually 2 - at about 1:00 am and then again at about 5:00 am. I nursed during those wake ups and she went right back to sleep.
At 6.5 months, we sleep trained/night weaned to get rid of one feeding, but she dropped both at the same time.
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Mine started sleeping 6 hour (or more) stretches at 6 weeks and would only wake up 2 times per night (sleeping 12 hours with 2 wakeups).
At 3.5 months she started waking up more. She has good nights (2 wakeups) and a lot more bad nights where she will wake up 3, 4, 5 times. She is 4 months right now, so it's been going on a couple of weeks.
She takes a paci but doesn't want it when she wakes up crying. So I just feed her to get her to go back to sleep. It's the easiest way so that's why I do it...I don't want to encourage her though. Maybe this weekend I will try putting her back to sleep another way and waiting until her "normal" wakeup times to feed her. She does roll from back to tummy (and get stuck) but she doesn't do it in her sleep very often so I can't say that's been the issue.
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At 4 months, anywhere between 4-10 times per night. 4 month sleep regression was horrible.
After we sleep trained (Ferber), she still woke but only to eat and then she'd go right back to sleep. She usually only woke about 2x at that age.
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Once, around 4 or 4:30...but we started 10pm dream feeds at that age, which saved us.
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My daughter is 5 months and wakes anywhere from 1-3 sometimes 4 times! This has been going on since 4 months (she previously was waking once.) it's definitely a combo of teething, growth spurts/wonder weeks, learning to crawl, etc. she has good weeks and bad weeks. Hoping she goes back to being a good sleeper soon!
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Let's just say a lot.
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I thought my baby was the only 4 month old waking up every three hours (almost like those first weeks!). Everyone around me seems to have their babies sleeping through the night! I don't know how to respond when my family members tell me about all the other babies who slept through and are sleeping through at this stage!
don't take any advice from me.
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