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I always nurse! It always works so that's just what I do. He's refusing to sleep in his crib now so he sleeps with me and it's easy to just pop the boob in. I'm not worried about creating bad habits. Especially with nursing.

@abbydabbydoodlebug: I always nursed E when he woke up and then one night it just stopped! He started getting up once maybe twice a night! I don't know what happened (though it totally happened at his 5 month mark). So now we are back to two MOTN wake ups.... phew. It was bad, but it's over now hopefully your sweet little girl will get out of this phase soon

@abbydabbydoodlebug: I intend to sleep train with E around 6.5 months (it's due to us traveling otherwise I would do it in a few weeks). And I'm going to do the same thing I did with ds#1. We did CIO at bedtime, but when he woke up in the middle of the night I still fed him (DS#1 was bottle fed). Eventually, he stopped getting up to eat and because he was able to fall asleep in his own at the beginning of the night, he could soothe himself to sleep in the middle of the night. So, you can still feed her in the middle of the night.

@abbydabbydoodlebug: I've really struggled getting him into a great bedtime routine because of the other two (we are doing baths or bedtime routine from 7:00 until 8:30!). Right now we do his solids dinner at 6:45. Bath at 710. Pjs and nursing until he falls asleep, which happens somewhere between 730 and 815.
I, by no means, am doing it correctly. And, he still sleeps in our room, because my older son isn't ready for a big boy bed, so E's crib is being used.
It sounds like you are doing good stuff to me. The sleep regression is a beast, and I'm not sure how much you could change to make it better. But I'm, by no means, an expert.

@MamaBehr: this is what we did too- CIO for the initial falling asleep, but I still fed her motn. I tried cutting the motn feeds shorter and she did. Not. Like it. I have in and just kept feeding her for wake ups and she eventually dropped them on her own and started STTN at 9 months. Basically we could sped a long time trying to sooth her in motn or I could go in, feed her, and have her back in her crib half an hour later.

If it was really close to the previous feed I would have Dh go try to sooth her first sometimes. Sometimes it worked, many times not, but if I ever walked in and didn't feed her right away she would get super pissed.

@abbydabbydoodlebug: for us it was just the month! So hopefully she figures it out soon.
I was more tired during the 4 month sleep regression than the newborn phase!!!

@abbydabbydoodlebug: yes, I EBF. Night time routine was ( and is) nurse in te living room- calm and quietish but lights are on, so she stays awake; go to her room, diaper change and pjs, put on sleep sack, read The Going to Bed Book, sounds machine on, lights all the way dimmed, sing twinkle twinkle once holding an rocking, lay her down and sing it again rubbing her back, then say good night and turn out the lights and leave.

To transition to her falling asleep not nursing, I started doing most of the feeding in the living room, doing most of that routine in her room, then singing as I nursed her to sleep in her room in the dark. That way the feeding was for comfort not nutrition, if that makes sense.

Also around that point I think I started stretching her wake time from end of nap to bed time to like three hours or so? And we dropped the swaddle around then because she was fighting it more than being comforted by it.