

My cheat sheet will tell you how many naps she needs by month. In my sleep summary by age, I’ve mapped out how long your baby can comfortably stay awake for at 4 months all the way to 14 months. One of the most effective ways to set your baby up for sleep success is by focusing on SLEEP TIMING. If you are not ready to sleep train yet, don’t fret! There are small things you can do. You can read more about different sleep training techniques here. At some point, you may decide that the frequent night wakings are taking their toll on your family and that the fractured nighttime sleep is leaving her tired in the morning.Īt this point, it is time to do some “sleep training” where you remove the sleep crutch so she develops some self-soothing skills where she can relax herself to sleep from being completely awake in the crib at bedtime, and then consequently when she wakes up through the night. You can go with these night wakings for some time.

Such as nursing, bottle feeding, being rocked, when she surfaces from a nighttime sleep cycle, she’ll cry out for the same thing that helped her fall asleep. Your child will likely continue to wake every 3 hours if she’s got a sleep crutch helping her fall asleep at bedtime.Ī sleep crutch is something external helping her relax into a drowsy state at bedtime. The challenge with this regression is that it doesn’t really go away. Then you’ll have to figure out what’s working for you and what’s not with respect to your child’s sleep.

You need to help your child through this leap by continuing to respond to her calls to help her establish the concept of object permanence. With any developmental leap, you will always offer more attention and more reassurance. So You probably want to know what you can do about it! Now you understand why the 4 month sleep regression is happening. Between 4 – 5 months, your child may start to move from 4 naps down to 3 naps.In addition, your bedtime is likely getting closer to 7 pm, and the witching hour should have passed.Usually sometime between 6 and 7 am, where previously it could have been between 7 – 9 am.

