Sleep regression or hungry?
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Topic: Sleep regression or hungry?
Posted By: snpone
Subject: Sleep regression or hungry?
Date Posted: 16 July 2012 at 8:28pm
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My daughter is 4 1/2 months now and a week ago we travelled half way round the world so have been dealing with jet lag. But now it seems to be something else.
Before she was sleeping from 7pm till 4am/6am and now she is waking around 11pm, 12am, 3am, 5am,6am then 8/9am - is this the four month sleep regression??? What do i do about it?? Each time she wakes i feed her, and it doesnt take long for her to go back to sleep - could it be she is ready for solids and is just hungry? Thanks for any help |
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Posted By: Aroha11
Date Posted: 16 July 2012 at 9:10pm
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snpone - the sleepstore have some amazing resources and looking back I wish I had read them earlier!! We had a baby that slept through until about 5 months then bang lots of wake ups. According some people (and the info from the sleepstore) they do change their sleeping habits around this age and actually wake every couple of hours and need to learn (if they haven't already) how to put themselves back to sleep. GoodLuck ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: snpone
Date Posted: 16 July 2012 at 9:20pm
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thanks so much for that! feels hard to be an effective parent when your so tired! I just had a look at the website and there are lots of books - can you recommend any in particular?
thanks for your help |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 16 July 2012 at 9:21pm
| Yep this is normal and nothing to do with being hungry and needing solids- a baby's digestive system is not ready for solids until close to or after 6 months. Its more to do with an increase in brain development and awareness. I second the sleepstore advise. |
Posted By: Aroha11
Date Posted: 20 July 2012 at 1:49pm
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I just read some of there articles (on their webpage in the top left corner there is a link) and they had some amazing tips. Good Luck ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Danda08
Date Posted: 22 July 2012 at 7:16am
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Sleepstore also have a FB page with a sleep forum so you can get advice for your particular situation.
I'm another who wishes I'd know about them when my girls were tiny. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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