https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:27:58 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1191609 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:01:03 +0000 .twist. 1191609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: well, last night went ok because I think he was so tired from all the excitement of Halloween. He slept 4 hours with extremely minimal fussing at the beginning of the night. Did ok after the first wake up and then I brought him to bed with me after the second wake up. </p> <p>@scg00387: well, looks like I'm going to have to do that anyway since he started rolling over today!! OMG! Haha </p> <p>@Anagram: I may try your schedule. I am so scared to put him down in his crib for naps. Currently he naps in his swing. But it just needs to change. So glad to hear you figured something out!! :D hope it continues and only gets better for you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1190053 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:46:49 +0000 Anagram 1190053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: we're still dealing with this regression, too. It's now been almost 2 weeks. The first 4-5 days we still swaddled as we always have but she started waking up more and more often. Then I ordered a Merlin Magic Sleep suit and while we waited for it to arrive, we tried totally unswaddled just in footie Pjs, and she continued waking up a million times a night. When the Merlin arrived, we put her in that and while it definitely calmed her movements and she didn't flail about, and it kept her warm (which was great as it's getting cold here and we don't use the heater), it didn't magically make her sleep longer.</p> <p>But, two days ago I started my own haphazard version if nap training, where I started laying her down awake in her crib---tired but awake-- where previously I always held her while she fell asleep and then fed her because she had feeding issues and would basically only eat while she was sleeping, and I used to transfer her after she fell asleep. Anyway, I didn't even have a plan for nap training, I just kind of wanted to see what would happen-- the first day, I made up a new naptime routine and did it, then laid her down awake...she played and flailed in her crib for a full 20 minutes, then kind of whine cried for 6-7 minutes then fell asleep . No out and out crying. I was shocked. I repeated that for her other two naps. Did the same thing yesterday. I don't want to jinx myself but I just did it for her morning nap and she fell asleep by herself in about 3 minutes.</p> <p>Night time sleep: my husband always does the nighttime routine and puts her down and he is a total softie. He typically does what I used to do for naps-- nighttime routine ending in a bottle where she falls asleep drinking, then transfer to the crib. Last night, he did the bottle first, then her pjs and sleep suit and put her down sleepy but awake. She whined for about 10 minutes and then fell asleep on her own. Since my husband is at work during the day, he is definitely not used to her cries at all (she 's never been a big crier so we are both used to responding to her at the first noise ) and I know it was SO hard for him to not rush in there and pick her up. And these were not even full -on scream cries. But I convinced him to just wait at least until she really started to cry---and she never did. She fell asleep!</p> <p>At 10:30, she stirred and let out two big cries but I didn't get out of bed (her crib is up against our bed) and she went back to sleep. At 12:02 exactly she woke up for real and I fed her. She then slept till almost 3 and I fed her again. Then she slept till 6:25 (a miracle!!) at that point she was up for about 20 minutes but then she slept till 8.</p> <p>So... Not near as good as she used to sleep-- but that was a BIG improvement in her sleep compared to the last 2 weeks,. I'm not ready to stop her from eating at night, as she has some catching up to do in terms of weight and I'm thrilled she 's starting to eat well. But my fingers are crossed she 'll keep improving. And stretching out her wakeups. </p> <p>Hopefully, you'd babe will start improving soon too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1189685 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:20:06 +0000 Alivoo01 1189685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: @Cherrybee: DS does this occasionally also so I'm going to swaddle him with his arm up and bent so that he can suck on his hand. Only thing is, once his hand is out of the swaddle, it ends up being completely out of the swaddle after a lil while. And he's a chronic scratcher too! Ugh!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1189494 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:50:25 +0000 immabeetoo 1189494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: if you're letting him cry, I personally would try to give him access to his hand to suck on. I know people have talked about swaddling with arms up or crossed but I'm not sure how. But I dunno how a kiddo would be able to self soothe without any ability to move. A lovey might help too; we introduced one at 5mish. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1189472 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:19:55 +0000 Cherrybee 1189472@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: What did you decide to do in the end? How did it go? E keeps bursting out of her swaddle to suck a fist and then she scratches her face all up. Nightmare! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1189423 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 02:10:27 +0000 .twist. 1189423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He's trying to suck his fist through the swaddle, should I give him a hand?? I hate this! I have no idea what I should do. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1189421 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 02:04:59 +0000 .twist. 1189421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: ugh. Last night he was up every 1.5 - 2 hours. I ended up bring him to bed with me around 4am. Tonight started off better, he got a good 4.5 stretch (yay!) but now he's awake and we're letting him cry it out for a few minutes. :( </p> <p>No ideas on the swaddle.... I'm debating taking ours off? I just don't think he's ready. :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1187210 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:30:13 +0000 Alivoo01 1187210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: How'd last night go mama??</p> <p>I'm thinking about swaddling him again... yay or nay?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1186877 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:07:40 +0000 .twist. 1186877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I can't! I don't know why but napping is so hard for me. Which is insane because I'm exhausted! I will look into the Merlin, thanks! </p> <p>@JoJoGirl: he's a week and a half away from 4 months.... Still old enough? :( </p> <p>@Alivoo01: ugh! I feel your pain! And I give you props because I have no idea how you're managing to go to work too, I would die I think. </p> <p>So, I decided to try a short period of cry it out. We let him cry for a few minutes and then DH went in and soothed him. Put him back down and then he cried for 5 to 10 minutes (?) and then passed out. I'm not holding my breath but so far he's been out for an hour... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1184366 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:38:14 +0000 Alivoo01 1184366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Not sure how I missed this post, but omg!! This is so us right now (boob thing and all!). L and C are like a week a part so go figure. Sleep has been so bad that DS has been sleeping with me the past few nights, but unswaddled. :( he’s normally swaddled. Co-sleeping has made tending to him when he wakes up easier, but neither of us really gets more sleep out of it. I hope us co-sleeping doesn’t make him not want to sleep in his crib!! I’m thinking about getting the merlin sleep suit because I’m THAT sleep deprived. I’ve been kind of unproductive at work because I’m so tired and sleepy. I have to watch my caffeine intake bc I know it affects C. Blah. I’ve tried sleep training, but the hubby doesn’t like hearing DS cry so he’ll run to him and help soothe, but he leaves for work at 2am and at that time, I’m in no state of mind to sleep train since I have to be up in a few hours for work. Sigh. I feel ya momma!! *hugs*</p> <p>@yourekindapretty: Same here on him starting the night off in the crib, and me bringing him into bed with me after his first or second wake up. Sigh.</p> <p>@EMG86: DS moves like crazy in his swaddle. Like he’ll be 90 degrees from where I put him down! I’m thinking about swaddle weaning, but he seems to sleep better with it on. As in it’s a cue for him to go to sleep once I put him in it. He’s been sleeping unswaddled next to me the past few nights, but I have to put a pillow on his legs to help him settle down. Otherwise, he’ll flail around like crazy all night long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1184017 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:16:09 +0000 JoJoGirl 1184017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes.... he's old enough technically for sleep training, although it sucks :( Would you try ferber? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1184003 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:13:31 +0000 Foodnerd81 1184003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: I'm so sorry you are going through this for so long! Are you able to nap while he is napping during the day? (I suck at napping so it never really works for me- maybe it's hereditary?) </p> <p>Have you thought about the baby merlins magic sleep suit? I think it is helping with our night sleep (growth spurts aside). It hasn't made naps any worse, but I don't really think anything could make then worse than they already are. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1183409 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:41:46 +0000 .twist. 1183409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: I tried this a couple nights and honestly I just hate it. I want to sleep with my husband, not my kid. It ended up not really working and just being extremely depressing for me. </p> <p>@emg86: it's possible... He never tries to break free when he's in our bed with me, though. So I don't know what that's about? We're trying the no-swaddle tonight...</p> <p>@Bookish: not really. I brought him to bed with me the last 3 nights. An I mentioned above, it ended up not working and being just depressing. I don't mind co-bedding for a couple hours, but all night sucks. I am seriously out of ideas.</p> <p>@Anagram: not great. I'm still trying to figure it out... </p> <p>@Modern Daisy: I have found in the past that sleep begets sleep. He has had some great naps during the day so I do not understand this. </p> <p>@yourekindapretty: yea, I nurse him to sleep and as soon as I pull him off, he wakes up. I try not to feed him too much because he just ends up puking it up... He's never been able to nurse for more than 15 minutes... </p> <p>DH threw his back out and I do not have the physical strength to rock L for the length of time it takes for him to fall asleep... Right now DH is in the rocker with him (because he cant stand with L) and L is just screaming his head off. And I just spent the last 40 minutes nursing, waking, rocking, waking, to sleep. He is finally asleep... For now. I'm in tears and tired. Unswaddling seems to be a no go. He just flails and wakes up crying. </p> <p>I'm.losing.my.mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1176101 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:40:21 +0000 yourekindapretty 1176101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we are going through the exact same thing!<br /> H has been sleeping through the night for the past month but starting two days ago shes been waking up every hour crying screaming &amp; rolling over onto her tummy. only way to soothe her is to nurse her but once i pull her off the boob shes wide awake and fussy. after the 2nd time she wakes up and is inconsolable we bring her into bed with us and let her sleep the rest of the night in our bed. I'm hoping she gets over this in the next few days =( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1176080 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:08:27 +0000 Modern Daisy 1176080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well we are behind you so I haven't been through this yet, but I know if DS sleeps too much during the day then he'll do just what you described. He LOVES to sleep during the day, so it's a constant struggle to wake him up. We also had to stop trying to swaddle him because when he was fussy he would struggle to get out and work himself up to the worst of fits and have even more trouble falling asleep. One more thing we try to do is 'tank him up' during the day, it's kind of inconvenient but we give him a bottle any time he fusses and encourage him to eat as much as possible. Our pedi said he is transitioning to getting most of his calories in during the day and we could start skipping a night feeding which we haven't done yet since he's still really inconsistent about his sleep stretches and the dream feed only worked once. Hopefully that helps! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175953 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:23:39 +0000 blackbird 1175953@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a merlin magic sleep suit at that time. It was so so helfpul </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175922 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:32:59 +0000 Anagram 1175922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: my husband took our LO all night last night and I slept in the guest room from 12:30-8 am straight, but he said she was up every 1.5 hours all night and he didn't get any sleep<br /> So tonight it's my turn again....ugh. I already want to die thinking about it. How was your night? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175905 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:06:46 +0000 Bookish 1175905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aggh I'm so sorry! Did anything end up working? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175787 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:00:04 +0000 Cherrybee 1175787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I sympathise!! I really do! </p> <p>E is only just three months and her night sleep went haywire at the start of this week. Awful!! We had removed the swaddle and were also about to ditch the moses basket (which sits inside her crib following the transition from our room to hers) but this regression, whatever caused it, made us run back to both! Its annoying because she sleeps fine in the sleep sack, just in the crib, for her naps. Well, i say fine, i mean no worse than she did before!! She slept well again last night (swaddled, in the Moses basket) so I will give it a few more days (fingers crossed she keeps sleeping well) and try again. Im considering trying one of Mrs Blue's towel nests.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175762 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:18:06 +0000 Boheme 1175762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would try unswaddling! C started refusing a swaddle when he could roll over </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175670 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 00:00:07 +0000 emg86 1175670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Oops, I meant she never rolled while swaddled. Does he have really good head control? Maybe try swaddling and see what he does on his back. Maybe he's just staying up or waking up cause he's trying to break free??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175665 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:47:13 +0000 Kemma 1175665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: he should be pretty flexible about his sleeping arrangements at this point, I actually started bedsharing on a part time basis at six months (bloody regressions!) and at twelve months she spends some nights alone and some nights with me :-)</p> <p>Sometimes you do what you need to to get through and you can always go back to routine once you get through it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175663 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:37:19 +0000 .twist. 1175663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: thanks lady! He hates the stroller unless it's moving. I would bring him to bed with me, and he may sleep, but I'm nervous to change his routine that drastically? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175662 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:35:04 +0000 Kemma 1175662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Will he stay asleep if you lie with him in bed? Or would he sleep better in your stroller?</p> <p>Hang in there mama, I promise this won't last forever! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175658 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:28:40 +0000 .twist. 1175658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms.Badger: I just attempted the hand thing, and he wasn't having any of it. Haha I did manage to get him down, hopefully for longer than 5 minutes... </p> <p>@emg86: he does usually fight the swaddle. He's fighting it to the point where I think he's going to flip himself right onto his tummy! I may just have to ditch the swaddle. Ugh. That scares me. Did you do tummy sleeping even though she couldn't roll over? Were you worried? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175651 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:17:08 +0000 emg86 1175651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There's a big growth spurt that usually starts around 3.5 months. We stopped using the swaddle around this time cause she could move in it so much, although she never rolled. Since then she has been a tummy sleeper. Is he fighting the swaddle? Or moving a bunch with it on? It may be worth a shot unswaddling to see what happens! Sorry you aren't getting any sleep :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175649 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:13:37 +0000 Ms.Badger 1175649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: sorry, we never really did the swaddling thing so no advice there. Just in case your LO is like mine, L likes to feel either my or DH's hand while he's falling asleep. We just put our hand near his face and he'll stroke it, move it around, etc and it calms him, Weird but true. During this time I would put a chair next to the crib and just let him have my hand. I didn't really get sleep but it was better than crying or bouncing him for hours </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175648 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:11:00 +0000 .twist. 1175648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: OMG. Yea, we're 3.5 months too... Tonight couldn't have been any worse of a night, I have to do a 3 hour drive tomorrow. :( </p> <p>I'm sorry you aren't sleeping either. This is so insanely frustrating... :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175646 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:08:24 +0000 Anagram 1175646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're in the middle of this too, and my LO is only 3 1/2 months! I slept only 2 hours last night. I have no advice, just sympathy. It's midnight and I'm still up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-6#post-1175645 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:07:59 +0000 .twist. 1175645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms.Badger: I would try that, except he can't flip over yet and we swaddle. </p> <p>Should I try unswaddling? Tummy? I have no idea. </p>