The 4 month sleep regression...

I haven't written this sooner, because I had hoped it would have passed by now, however, here were are at 5.5 months and we're still going through it.

If you don't know what the 4 month sleep regression is, here's a great post about it - to summarise it, at about 4 months, babies change their sleeping patterns from a baby one, to an adult one.  Their new pattern will see them sleep for 5ish hours well, then wake up a lot, just like we do as adults, after sleeping a while we wake up a lot and turn over etc.  This regression will see babies who have been successfully sleeping through, start to wake a lot and essentially, regress.

With Squidge it started at about 15 weeks, just before he turned 4 months old.  He had been sleeping right through (this is when he was still in his moses basket), but he started waking up, not for a feed, just for his dummy - so I'd reach over, pop his dummy back in and we'd go back to sleep.  Well, that's still the case, only he's in his cot in his own room now, so when he wakes up for his dummy, we have to get out of bed, walk into his room, pop the dummy back in, go back to our room, get back into bed and go back to sleep while the other one is snoring away.  It could be as little as 5 minutes later, we're doing the same thing again, and again, and again.

On any given night, he'll wake up between 2 and around 15 times, each time requires us getting out of bed and putting his dummy back in.  Once the dummy is in, he goes right back to sleep, until he either spits the dummy out, pulls it out or just wakes up.

Some nights, he does actually sleep right the way through - I think since he was 15 weeks (he's now 24 weeks), we've had maybe 3/4 of these, they really have become a rarity.  I'm hoping he goes back to sleeping through again soon and that this doesn't last for months more.

Do you have any tips to help with this?

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