Anyone have any tips for dealing with / fixing couple month old baby sleep regression?
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Hmm interesting going look further into this!
Yes! Sleep regression around 4 months is super common — it's when a baby's sleep cycle starts to mature, and they wake up more often between cycles. A few tips that help:
Stick to a consistent bedtime routine (bath, feed, lullaby, etc.).
Watch for wake windows — babies that age often stay awake 1.5–2 hours max before needing sleep.
Encourage naps during the day — overtired babies sleep worse at night.
Try to put baby down drowsy but awake to help them learn to self-soothe.
White noise and a dark room can also work wonders.
It’s a phase and it will pass — you’re doing great! 💪🍼
Seconded on most of this. Especially dedicated bedtime routine and preventing overtired baby with decent nap times.
Another trick that my wife was super against until our midwife talked about doing it and we had a horrible night and she was just exhausted, but side lay breast feeding. My wife on her side and the baby able to breastfeed and then just fall right to sleep. Saved us numerous painful nights that turned into short little wake periods and back to sleep.
Until we did that a bit I was just getting up and walking with them in the night. We are going through this same regression right now with our daughter. I mostly just end up walking with her at least once in the night and my wife’s will feed her once or twice. She’s 5 months now and it’s improving
A quote from "Margin Call": it's just gonna suck for a while and then you'll be fine.
Hopefully you have parental leave so you can catch on sleep with a nap during the daytime.
For us the key was:
- consistent bedtime routine
- short breastfeeding when waking up at night
- white noise (low volume radio static)
- lots of activities when awake, baby swimming almost always resulted in a good night's sleep
Good luck!
Thanks for the tips, I hadn’t tried tiring them out as much as possible, that’s a good one!
Did anything help? Our little one is pretty consistently sleeping through the night now, its fucking heaven to get 6-8 solid hours of sleep again.
A few things helped. We have been getting him to bed earlier each wake window so baby gets more familiar with the bassinet while in a good mood, before getting over tired. As well we have been doing the pick up put down method so that baby gets a chance to fall asleep on his own, instead of falling asleep in our arms and then being confused when he wakes up not in them.
Also just time has been a big gfactor previously baby was up every ten minutes which I think was just the sleep regression due to his sleep cycle naturally changing.
Also more tummy time to get baby tired I think has helped
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Try having a routine that you only do at night. Outfit change, wash face, white noise, lullaby, swaddle. Get them early morning sunlight (pre sunrise), or walk outside early in the day.
We do a lot of those already but the one I need to be more consistent about is getting sun early in the day. Thanks for the tip 🙏
