https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:43:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-or-just-bad-habits#post-533679 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:49:18 +0000 soccermomma 533679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bao-thanks! I haven't decided if/when/how we will sleep train at night time, but I feel she's a bit too young right now.<br /> For naps she fusses it out for 5 minutes or so on either my husband or I, and then she'll pass out. So I guess we are kind of doing a motified CIO for naps. But we've tried that at night time and it just makes her more worked up and she won't calm down enough to fall asleep...<br /> Praying the earlier bed time and routine improve our night times! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-or-just-bad-habits#post-533660 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:44:10 +0000 Bao 533660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have been through it all the past few months. LO started sleeping not so well just before 4 months old. I knew it had to be from the 4 month sleep regression. LO is 5 months old today and 3 days ago we started sleep training, using the CIO method, which up until now I was not a fan of. Along with the CIO method we adjusted her bedtime from 7:00pm to 6:30pm and boy what a world of difference that half hour has made! She had been waking up 8 times a night on average, and now with the earlier bedtime and CIO a few minutes here and there, we are at 2 wake ups. That is a huge improvement. So with that said, I would try and get a routine going like you had been and maybe adjust to an earlier bedtime and see if that makes a difference. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-month-sleep-regression-or-just-bad-habits#post-533638 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:39:46 +0000 soccermomma 533638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO will be 4 months old next week, and I’m started to dread putting LO down every night. LO naps really well, isn’t always on a set schedule, but I’m ok with that since she’s not a fussy baby and is pretty mellow.<br /> Up until a week or so ago, our bedtime routine started around 7:30pm and I changed her diaper, put PJ’s on, rocked and nursed her to sleep. She would go down fairly well every night and only wake at 1:30am and 5am to eat and then wake up at 8am for the day.<br /> We had a busy couple weekends when we were out with family late and her bedtime routine kind of went out the window for a few days. This is when her bedtimes became later and later, and more difficult to put her to sleep. I think she’s getting overtired since she’s up later, or could this be a form of the ‘4 month’ sleep regression? She’s waking about the same (maybe a little more on some nights) and sometimes around the 4/5am feeding she’s really awake and harder to get back down.<br /> I’m a first time momma and I’m dreading bedtime every night. I’m going to try to get back to her 7:30pm bedtime/routine, but are there any tips/advice you seasoned momma’s have for me? </p>