Regression of sleep patterns!

Julie - posted on 04/17/2012

Hi Natasha, I see that this was posted a couple of years ago so I was wondering whatever happened with your daughter? Because mine has done the same thing now! She was sleeping a full 8 hrs every night from 2-4 months, it was so great! But then all of a sudden at like 5 months, she started regressing back to her newborn patterns and is now waking up every 2-3 hrs again! Sometimes she will sleep for 4-5 hrs, but only at the beginning of the night, and since she goes to bed at 9 or 10, I am not even asleep for most of that part since I can't go to sleep until like 11 no matter what I do! So she is waking up at like 2, 4, 6 and 8, it is exhausting! My first one NEVER did this after she started sleeping through the night so I just don't understand it, also because she is getting plenty to eat during the day, but I have tried to just comfort her but it doesn't work, she seems to be genuinely hungry because she is eating like crazy when I put her on the breast, she will stay on the breast actively swallowing for way longer than she does during the day, and then she goes right back to sleep, but it is like she really needs the food. I asked her pediatrician about it at her 6 month check up today she said that once I start the solid foods (gonna start tomorrow!!) maybe she will do better, but I am wondering if that is just a myth? Because my 1st child never had any solids until 6 mos either, but she was sleeping like 12 hrs a night from the time she was 10 weeks old. Anyway I just wondered how you resolved it and if anyone else has experienced maybe something like an extended growth spurt where they just wanted to eat and eat? Thanks everyone! :)

Amber - posted on 08/06/2010

oh did I mention...my little boy is 5 months...and I have 2 older children....one is 4 and the other is 3, and my 3 yr old did the same thing...I agree with what your ped. suggested....but I have also heard that you aren't suppose to let your babies "cry it out" til they are about 4-41/2 months....just what I heard.

Melodie - posted on 08/06/2010

We are going through the same thing right now- so frustrating! she was waking up 1xin an 11 hour period at night and now she wakes up sometimes every 2 hrs. Right now she is learning that her cries get a response from you-so I am praying this is a stage. Our Ped. suggested teaching her to put herself to sleep (put her down tired but awake) which we have been doing for awhile now and night-times are hell. Ok, I am of no help other than to say we are experiencing the same thing w/our little girl. Started about 4 mos she is 5 mos now.

Amber - posted on 08/06/2010

When she wakes up do you go in and get her up, and feed her again? Does she use a pacifier? I know a couple times my little boy has woke up, and I didn't get him out of bed...I just gave him his pacifier, covered him back up and rubbed his back a little bit, and he went right back to sleep. If she knows you are going to get her up everytime, and do whatever...she is going to keep doing it. Hope this helps. =)