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some people recommend waiting 15-20 minutes before going in to see if your baby falls back asleep on his/her own. i did this with my LO and he usually settled down, but not always, and i know 15-20 minutes in the middle of the night can feel much longer!

hope this phase is over for you soon!

We are in the middle of it!!!! LO used to sleep 9-5, but has been waking at 1:30 and then again at 3:30. It's been 4 days of this, so I am hoping he goes back to normal soon. I went back to work this week as well, so I am basically a walking zombie! Tired....

We've been going through it for about a month. His sleep is finally getting better now. He had been going 9-5 beforehand. Then during regression was waking 3-5 times a night or more. Last few days have been generally better with 1-2 wakes. I soothe him when I can but feed if he's inconsolable. I think i read the regression can be 1-5 weeks depending on the child.

Ours started at 4 months on the nose and lasted awhile -- a month maybe? I just went with it and fed her whenever she woke up because she seemed hungry, even if I knew that she had gone longer without eating previously. LO was pretty easy in that she dropped her night feeding(s) on her own and was STTN by 9 months, although with a couple regressions when teething.

I think it was around 5.5 months that we did our first bout of "sleep training", since the 4 month regression seemed to mess up her ability to go down at bedtime and over a month later, we were kinda sick of it. I hesitate to really call it that, since her angry fussing was just on-and-off for about 10 minutes the first night before she figured it out.

@mrsroo we just didn't have a terrible regression with LO up every hour like some people experience. maybe people with worse regressions get cut some slack and it only lasts 1-2 weeks?

Prior to regression, LO was up only once a night to eat. During it, she was up 2 or 3 times (then right back down easily), going to bed was harder, and she was way more inconsistent when she got up. Oh, and her naps went to crap and stayed that way until 8 months, when we just switched her to one.

@AprilFool: that definitely sounds like there's a light at the end of the tunnel for you!

Tonight was 12 am and just now at 5 am, but she's sleeping in our room in the RnP, so I have no idea if she will sleep that well in her crib. Last night she was up at 10:30, 12:45, 2:30, and 4. Fml!

@KayKay: I like that theory! Hopefully I only have a week or so to go.

@AprilFool: that's awesome! Fingers crossed LOs sleep stays that way for you!

We seem to be sticking with a 12:30 and 5am wake up, but she's also back in the RnP in our room. When I put her down in the crib she gives me 2-3 hour stretches max. I'm worried I'm ruining her ability do sleep in the crib, but I need sleep so I'll cross that bridge when we come to it!

Is your LO in a separate room?

Our 4 month sleep regression has been on and off for a month now. FML

@AprilFool: oh no! We transitioned LO into her crib the same way, although we weren't dealing with a regression on top of it. We put her down in the crib, then when she woke I'd feed her and bring her back into our room. She eventually just started sleeping longer stretches in the crib and we could put her back in here after a feeding and she wouldn't cry. She slept straight through to 5 am? That's good!

Ugh, my LO is still waking a few times a night. They are all running together, so I don't even remember which nights she sleeps more vs which nights she's up constantly, lol! I think last night she was up at 12, 3:30, and then 7.

I noticed last night that she has a shiny white lump on her gum. How is it time to teeth already!?! That definitely explains a lot of her fussy pants behavior, but I truly (nievely?) thought I had til 6 months before teething. I'm not ready!