4 month old stopped sleeping through

[katy888]

My daughter has just turned 4 months she was sleeping through the night but the last few weeks has started waking every hour from 1am she cries but only needs her dummy putting back in and she's goes back to sleep any ideas on breaking this cycle of having to put her dummy back in every hour?! Nothing in her routine has changed.

[badfurday]

Id guess it's sleep regression. My daughter is exactly the same at now 19 weeks. She finds it increasingly had to settle herself. Dummy out every hour and crazy leg stomping. I get up, dummy in and nursery rhymes on. It can take 20 mins to settle her and before I know it, she is up again. Last night it was 12, 2, 3, 5 and finally awake at 7. This was a better night.....

[beccajoh]

There's quite a big sleep regression at four months so unfortunately it's very normal! It should pass in a couple of weeks.

[katy888]

Yes she does that leg stomping too! Thank you both guess we'll just battle on through! Badfurday hope your nights get better too!

[badfurday]

Yeah the leg stomping is weird! I was convinced her nappy was itching her so kept changing her! Naive mummy! I now know it's normal in sleep regression.

[annamitchell]

My daughter used to do something similar around 4 months although it lasted approx 6 weeks or more so ended up posting on here (titled ' 5 month old not sleeping please help!'. I think it was a combination of 4 month regression, growth spurt and not being able to settle herself - being dependent on dummy. You could ride it out and see if it will pass, or if it goes on as long as it did with my LO, you could try helping her to self settle? we had a good evening routine and so i tried settling her to bed without her dummy (it did involve some crying and reassuring pats). i found this eventually helped reduce the night wakings as i think she was able to settle herself better. She still wakes about 2 times in the night at the moment but this is a great improvement from every 1-2 hours! Its tough, i know. Feeling for you!