[Flutter Bug]

.....do they suddenly turn feral?

Mine is off the show with her sleep.

No sleep, NONE during the day time the past 5 days.
She was doing great. I could just put her to bed (tired but awake) for all 3 of her day time sleeps and she would drift off to sleep without any need for settling but all of a sudden seems completely unable to get to sleep. Nothing else has changed except her behaviour. She is getting increasingly agitated at sleep time and is just sobbing her little heart out. And I know that she is tired and wants to sleep. As soon as it comes time to feed her she falls asleep on the breast, poor darling.

People keep mentioning that this happens at 4-4.5 months of age but no one has really enlightened me to exactly what this 'thing' is at this age!

I'm beginning to lose my mind again, I thought we were past this.

Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions?

TIA

This post has been edited by Flutter Bug: 18/04/2012, 07:46 PM

[erindiv]

I have a 4 month old who seems determined to drive me mad with inconsistant sleep.

I think the theory is their increased awareness and therefore desire to not miss out on the fun by going to sleep.

[Saecularis Angel...]

No answers, but you're not alone. DD won't sleep during the day, then gets overtired, refuses to be put down, grizzles and yells....

What I find difficult is that I'll feed her to sleep, put her down, and she'll wake up yelling 5 minutes later. I know she needs sleep, so why why why won't she stay asleep? (That weird noise in the background is me tearing out my hair).

I do hope it passes and we get nap time back, for both our sakes!

[Flutter Bug]

I think the theory is their increased awareness and therefore desire to not miss out on the fun by going to sleep.

Too true - I go in after she's been grizzling for a while to settle her and she laughs at me and blows raspberries! Cheeky monkey...

[mum201]

This is us too. Does anyone know how long it goes for, or is it just off and on for a few months.

[mummacampbell]

My little one did that when she hit the 3 month mark.
She is now 11 months and sleeps for 30 mins at 9am and 1 hour at one pm.

I am lucky in that my little one does sleep all night (at present) from 7pm until 6am though.

Hang in there op

[Missmarymack]

I thought it had something to do with their sleep cycles lengthening to become more like that of an adult? Or the stage of sleep they go into changes??

Either way, it completely sucks a*se. My daughter had been sleeping 12-13 hrs straight each night for a month beforehand and since then she still wakes up most nights...! But from 4-6 months seriously sucked, I swear she woke 6 times a night.

Wishing you all going through it a VERY short phase and more sleep soon x

[munchmum]

Mine started teething at that age, first tooth appeared just shy of 5 months. Try looking in her mouth the gum will look white. I gave panadol when she was clearly not herself and she calmed down so I figure she must have been in pain.

[swirlygirl]

Similar experience here. We never fully recovered from the 4 month 'sleep regression' and things got really bad for night sleeping at 9 months. He's just over a year now and sleep is improving again (but still waking more than once a night).

I'd highly recommend you google 'the wonder weeks'- its a schedule of predictable phases of mental development that babies go through which can impact on sleep, feeding, and general settledness. The timing of the various phases have been quite accurate for us so far and it has helped getting through the rough patches to be able to attribute it to something, as well as to predict and prepare mentally for another unsettled phase.

ETA: just wanted to clarify that there was some improvement in sleep after the 4 months 'blowout', just that his sleep never got back to the awesome sleeping through all night that he was doing prior.


This post has been edited by swirlygirl: 18/04/2012, 08:03 PM

[Ridcully]

My four month is the same ATM. I don't know (nor really care) EBs opinion on Wonder Weeks but we have found it scarily accurate. There is an iPad app which will show you exactly where your little one is at, it's great because I know that in a weeks time she will come good (until the next stormy period anyway!)

Eta: snap swirlygirl!!

This post has been edited by Ridcully: 18/04/2012, 08:15 PM