My LO is not the world's greatest sleeper (an understatement). In her first two months of life, she was, I thought, an average sleeper for a newborn. After the first few weeks (when she had her days/nights mixed up and didn't want to sleep at night unless being held), she would sleep 2-3 hours between feedings. It wasn't fun but it wasn't horrible either. As she approached two months, we started getting longer stretches of 4-5 hours and I thought things were on a good path. But at about 9 weeks, things started going downhill. She didn't sleep as well during the day-- easily overtired if we missed the 90 minute waketime window and really needed to be soothed to sleep (rather than just going to sleep whenever she was tired). And at night, she seemed to revert to waking up at least every 2 hours whether or not she was hungry, and that was after we'd spend upwards of 1.5 hours trying to get her to go down for the night.

Then a couple of weeks ago, things started to get a little better and she is back to where she was at 8 weeks--sleeping 4-6 hours stretches and only waking once or twice at night to eat. Her daytime napping is only ok (more often than not she takes 30 minute naps) but she goes down pretty easily most of the time.

LO will be 4 months in a week and a half and I am terrified of another sleep regression. The last month or so have been pretty hard on me-- I felt more exhausted than when she was first born (and often like a failure for not being able to help her sleep better). I'll also be going back to work after the holidays. Any chance that we experienced her sleep regression early? Or should I just try and accept the fact that the better pattern we are seeing these days is only temporary??