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I am with you!! Baby is 4m today and the last couple weeks have had lots of wakeups. I’m contemplating moving her out of our room to see if it helps, but I also feel too tired to deal with it. And honestly we’ve co-slept plenty to deal with it too. So no advice here

That was the age where they were more aware of our presence at night and would therefore have more wake ups (and consequently more feedings). I would try to find a way to put him in a separate space. If company is coming just for a few nights, could you address sleep logistics at that time?

I’m sorry you’re going through this sleep regresssion. 4 months and 9 months were definitely the worst ones for us!!

Does he go down to sleep awake? That's what helped us most at that age. We room share (LO sleeps in a crib at the foot of our bed).

@ALV91711: Yeah, it's hard when they're so little still. I think it really does help, but it's definitely a process.

Sleep has not been all that great here lately because of all the daycare sickness we've had - croup, hfm, rsv, and a stomach bug in less than two months, plus problems with DS's allergies. But on nights where he doesn't wake himself up coughing or puking or whatnot, he'll eat once or twice between 7:30pm and 6:30-7am. I'm sure I could improve that by night weaning, but I may wait to tackle that one until the winter sickness season is over.

I really hope sleep improves soon!

My third baby wasn’t a great sleeper and then she just progressively got better from about six months old. Prior to the six month mark she fed to sleep every night and ended up in my bed but she just seems to have grown out of it and will occasionally even sleep all night.

Sometimes I think the only way out is through and fingers crossed you get some better sleep soon!

@periwinklebee: I agree! And those needy babies turn out to be super sweet cuddlers as they get older ... or so I tell myself at 3am

@ALV91711: commiseration my baby was born a few days before yours, and we (I think) hit the 4-month regression maybe ten days ago. She went from STTN with the help of a 10pm dream feed to waking up multiple times every 10 minutes after being put down for the night, two new night wakings, and garbage little naps. We are also working hard at drowsy but awake and trying (sorta) to graduate out of the rock n play, which is hard with reflux did you do CIO with your older boy? We did it with our son, like @JJ2626: at 4.5 months and it worked wonders.

@ALV91711: @bhbee: Great point! I love the thought of (daytime) cuddles continuing

@ALV91711: I hope things are starting to improve.

@Kemma: Thank you!

@ALV91711: I'm sorry there was no improvement last night