Please post a link if this has already been asked. I couldn't find a thread about this specifically...
Can the "4 Month Sleep Regression" come early? DS is 13.5 weeks and the past week has started waking up in MOTN. Before, he was sleeping through. Last night, he was up every two hours. Fluke? Or, are we hitting a regression?
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Most of the moms in my play group had their worst sleep before four months- my Lo included. It peaked around three months or so and started getting better at 3.5 months.
persimmon / 1116 posts
@Smurfette: @Foodnerd81: Good to know that if this is it that I am not alone!! Did you (or the moms in your play group) do anything different? Like drop the swaddle, Paci wean, go back to the swing... Or, did you just stick it out and do everything the same because its a phase?
persimmon / 1116 posts
@BKCaribBaby: Did you do anything different? Like drop the swaddle, Paci wean, go back to the swing... Or, did you just stick it out and do everything the same because its a phase?
pomegranate / 3331 posts
ours started early too. we did drop the swaddle and switch to a sleep sack, but not because of the regression - we did it because we wanted to move her to the crib, and we wanted her out of the swaddle before that. i dont think we did anything differently other than occasionally keep her in our bed if it was closer to morning, because she'd wake on the transfer and be up for the day at like 4-5am! and we certainly didn't paci wean - we use the paci WAY more now than we did before the regression!
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@citymouse: I think everyone did something different to get through it. Personally, we did CIO for falling asleep at bedtime at 3.5 months. It felt early but since nothing else was working to fall asleep, we figured may as well go with what would help going forward. That helped the night wake ups because if she woke up briefly, she could fall back asleep on her own-- though it still took a while to get the MOTN feeds back down to 1 or 2.
C never took a paci or liked the swing, so those were non-issues. We did drop the swaddle around the same time, but I cann't remember if it was exactly then. I think that was when we went to a Halo sleep sack, with the swaddle arms around her chest and her arms out. Oh, and that's when we started letting her sleep with a little lovey (A&A security blanket).
Good luck!
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
Oh this is interesting! I thought N's wake ups were due to the crib transition but this has me wondering if we're in the regression a bit early at 13 weeks.
persimmon / 1116 posts
@MrsKoala: I also just read up on wonder weeks, 12 weeks is definitely on there! http://www.mybabysleepguide.com/2012/01/when-are-wonder-weeks.html Blarg.
persimmon / 1116 posts
@Foodnerd81: He doesn't cry usually when we put him down. Im wondering about the Paci issue. He likes to have it to GO to sleep, but doesn't want it when he is ACTUALLY asleep. He always pops it out. Then if he stirs and can't get himself back to sleep without the Paci, he cries. I just don't know if we should try to change anything or see if it passes in the next week or so.
He is in the Woombie, and chews on his hands during the day, but doesn't seem to like chewing on them through the fabric. Idk!!
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
@citymouse: I thought about that, too. Man, 3-4 months is kind of rough!
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
@citymouse: I think I'm going to have to buy stock in Starbucks for the amount of coffee I will need in the next couple of weeks.
eggplant / 11408 posts
@citymouse: @MrsKoala: @ms.janedoe: you all are scaring me! Mostly because your babies are old enough for this, but also because it means I'm not far behind 
But I guess it can't really be a regression if they don't sleep consistently before that, huh? 
persimmon / 1116 posts
@ms.janedoe: Was sleep good before that? DS's was, so this really does seem like a "regression."
pomegranate / 3160 posts
@citymouse: I don't know if her sleep was "good" in the sense of getting huge stretches (we never went like, 5 or 6 hours...ever), but she had a pretty set pattern of 3-4 hour stretches. I knew when she'd go down, she'd wake 4 hours later to feed, go down again for 3 hours, wake to feed, then be up around 5-6.
When we hit 3 months, it literally turned into basically hour wakeups. Today at 6 months, it's still considered a good night if she does a single two hour stretch. I'm planning on starting sleep training TONIGHT (omgggg) if the thunderstorms hold off!
Anyway, I'm not sure how much was the regressions fault and how much was mine, I know I probably could have left her longer to see if she'd settle, so who knows if that had a huge part to play...
persimmon / 1116 posts
@MrsKoala: @LovelyPlum: Yes, mine too!! There is good along with the bad!
persimmon / 1147 posts
Absolutely for us. Sleep started to decline around the 3 montj mark and was full blown sleep regression by 4 months.
pomelo / 5469 posts
LO was STTN but had a couple of wakeups around 12wks--I think there is a growth spurt then, so it could have been that. She went back to STTN right after, so hopefully your LO will too 
pear / 1672 posts
@citymouse: We stuck it out until about 5.5 months and sleep trained. I will say that we just decided to be open to bed sharing, which we only did before sparingly.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
I didn't read the other comments, but I know it came early for DD1. She went from waking once a night to waking 4x a night... took forever to get her back on track again.
persimmon / 1116 posts
@BabyBoecksMom: What did you guys do? Did you try feeding every time, or just paci? Whenever we feed him at night now he doesnt want his morning bottle, so I don't think its that. Should we just let him work it out?
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