11/23/2023 0 Comments 19 month sleep regressionTotally normal.ĭuring this time, some nursing moms have trouble keeping up with milk production. You may go through a period when baby is eating ALL. THAA. In 2 weeks (at about 4.5 months), your baby will experience another growth spurt where he may be more hungry, in general. ![]() ![]() If not? I’m guessing it’s classic 4 month sleep regression. If daytime milk consumption is waning, she may, in fact, be hungry at night. To cover all your bases, pay special attention to baby’s daytime milk consumption. This is a totally different matter altogether. Hey look, a window!) during the day (wait, is that mom’s hair I just grabbed? Hair is awesome). Just to be extra confusing, 4 months is also a time when babies seem to be way more distractible while nursing/feeding during the day (look, a squirrel!) and may in fact (is that our dog? I love the dog!) be eating (come here, doggie!) less than they normally do (I love dogs. Sometimes, it’s harder for us to stop the knee-jerk reaction to feed them because we’re sooooo conditioned to do so, right? Having said that… D i $ t R C t I 0 N I mean, heck, as parents, we’ve been TRAINED to feed them every 3 hours since the time they were born (or else!). You might be fooled into thinking that she’s waking out of hunger, but it’s probably not the case (especially if she’s waking at a time when she wasn’t before!). ![]() Most parents are totally thrown for a loop by these new night-wakings and begin to search for answers to this strange, unsettling pattern: is she hungry? Is she teething? Maybe she’s lonely? Ah, yes, I know, she’s lactose intolerant that’s the ticket! (Etc., etc.) Hence, the “partial arousals” they experienced between sleep cycles as newborns (and probably fell right back to sleep without anyone noticing) may well turn into full-on wake-up-crying arousals. The catch is that adults know how to get themselves back to sleep in the middle of the night (unless you’re an insomniac like me) infants usually don’t. On the downside, it also means that she’ll be more ALERT at the end of each sleep cycle, more like an adult. ![]() Over the 4th and 5th months, non-REM (i.e., deep sleep) increases as the pineal gland starts to secrete more and more melatonin, meaning your babe will sleep more soundly than she did as a newborn. In fact, the 4th month is a time of massive neurological change, as well as changes to your baby’s sleep patterns. Yes, just because they can go for a stretch without eating doesn’t mean the sleep gods will be smiling upon you this month. By 5 months, they’ll typically go for 10-11 hours without a snack. Technically speaking, a healthy, full-term 4-month-old baby **should be able to go about 8+ hours at night without needing to eat. You’re probably very confused if you don’t know what’s going on behind the curtain. 4 Month Sleep Regression Updated October 2021Īnd JUSSSST when you thought you had the whole sleep-thing figured out - yeah, that’s right, you’ve mastered the mysteries of the baby-sleep-universe - BOOM! You hit the dreaded “ 4 month sleep regression.” Baby’s up again at night perhaps even several times a night.įuuuuuuhhh…! This isn’t supposed to be happening… or is it?
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