No sleep for you!
So like always, I opened by big mouth and bragged to everyone within a 10 mile radius that Baby A was such a great sleeper and began sleeping through the night. Now this loud mouth is stuck eating his words as Baby A has been waking up three to four times a night.
Apparently this is fairly common for babies who are around four months of age. It even has a catchy name: 4 month sleep regression. It basically means that your baby has figured out that daddy loves his sleep too much and that she has the power to change it.
Well… maybe she isn’t as evil as I make her seem, there is a great article I found that explains the 4 month sleep regression that you can check out by clicking here.
The frustrating thing is that nothing seems to help. If you follow the blog, I recently wrote a post filled with sleeping tips for your baby, and even those tips haven’t had much success. (Haven’t tried the NyQuil yet.)
The good news is that she will hopefully out grow it in a few weeks.
Now excuse me, I need another cup of coffee.
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HAHAHA. Yeah, I guess that’s how it goes. We did the whole co-sleeping thing so we didn’t ever have that issue. On the other hand though there were other issues to deal with. I guess no matter what we do kids will always throw a wrench into our perfectly laid plans
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Thanks for the reply Keith,
We’ve also noticed that co-sleeping helps her sleep better, but like you said it creates it’s own issues. Hard part is decided which is the less of the two evils!
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I can’t tell you how many people find my site around this age (thank you for the link back)! I can almost bet money when someone says “He was sleeping in long stretches, and then…” and I can almost finish the sentence “he turned 3 or 4 months old and he started waking up every 2 hours.”
At least my son didn’t tease me. He was always a poor sleeper. LOL Co-sleeping didn’t even work for us. I guess I was just too much of a worry-wart that I’d roll on him or daddy would pull the covers up over him. I do think it’s harder for parents who had a “good” sleeper and then baby throws them for a loop. I hope she’s getting back on track!!
I really love your blog name!
Good luck!
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Hey Nicole,
Thanks for stopping by! Your site described our daughter to a tee… very informative!
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My son is finally sleeping all through the night… he has done this since 8 months old (he is 9 1/2 now) and here we are pregnant again..
This summer things will TOTALLY change on us.
Not sure if I am ready for the long nights again…
ugh..
Bring on the Starbucks!
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