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Aw. FUL. Just awful.

Her sleep was crap to begin with. Then it got worse. Literally 3.5 months of hourly wake ups and 20 minute cat naps. A 2 hour span of sleep was heavenly to me. I had to turn to decaf. While working FT. And she only wanted my boob.

We just got past it! It started at 3.5 months, and ended just earlier this week (a little past 4 months). I would say it lasted 2.5 weeks for us.

We went from sleeping from 8-4 am... to him waking up 2-3x a night again. The worst was one night when he woke up every two hours on the dot (10pm, 12am, 2am, 4am, 6am... ahhh). He was not as happy as he usually is, drooling like a waterfall, didn't nap as well, and was fussier when breastfeeding.

Then one day, it all went back to normal and left as quickly as it came. He is back to sleeping 8-4am... last night he slept from 8 - 6am!!! His naps are longer and more consolidated too. I'm feeling a lot more refreshed this week than I had been this past month.

Knowing that it's a phase helped me get through it. It's my 2nd time going through this so I went in expecting it, and it made it a lot more tolerable.

Ours happened around 3.5 months, around the time that she started to roll over. Luckily, it only lasted a few days. I just did whatever i could to get through it (e.g., Ergo or stroller naps, nursing as often as possible). I found that it was easier to get through it because her longest stretch was only 5 hours at that point.

Also want to add that our regression may have seemed longer too because he was also battling a cold that he caught from his sister at the same time. AWFUL.

We were getting an 8-10 hour stretch at night. Then she started waking up once a night. Now at a week before 4 months, she gets up after a 3 or 4 hour stretch, every 10mins to 1.5 hour for the rest of the night. Usually only the boob will put her back to sleep. It is pretty much hell. And she had a cold on top of it. So her coughing will wake her up even more.

DD wasn't sleeping through the night but giving me a 5 hour long stretch which I thought was acceptable. Around 3.5 months her sleep and naps started to deteriorate until she was waking up EVERY HOUR all night. Things finally got better at 5.5 months when we sleep trained. It was awful though!

@Pumpkinspice: R has been drooling so bad, goes through multiple bibs a day, blows bubbles and chews on everything, especially her hands for almost 2 months now. I keep thinking maybe she is teething but nothing yet.

And it is awful. I wouldn't wish this on my worse enemy!

Started at 15 wks and just got progressively worse--3 to 5 wakeups a night. Finally we sleep trained at 6.5 monts and things have improved since then!

@Pumpkinspice: haha truly though, I think I was more prepared by 8 months when it hit.

@Pumpkinspice: Did either of your other two go through it? I just feel like the further from the newborn terrible sleep we got, the more prepared I was because I'd gotten to rest.

@googly-eyes: no way! We hit a patch of REALLY bad sleep recently for two weeks and it was horrific. At least back then I was already barely getting sleep. Now I was spoiled with better sleep so it made it harder.

DD went through a regression at. 3 1/2 months that lasted for about a week. We then were smooth sailing til a regression at 6 months that I think we're still dealing with at 8 months.

LO is almost 4.5 months now and we only had one bad night of sleep the day she turned 4 months. She routinely sleeps 8-4, feeds, and then goes back to sleep until 5:30. If wakes to eat past 4:30 then she's usually up for the day.

We did notice her naps turned to crap at 3.5 months and we haven't gotten them back on track.