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four month old waking during the night

boomerz12
boomerz12 Posts: 140
edited January 15 in Social Groups
It started when she was three months but she still does it. Sometimes every hour and a half to two hours and the only way to get her to go back to sleep is giving her a bottle. It just seems a little too much to be eating every hour 1/2.When will it stop?

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  • Pepper2185
    Pepper2185 Posts: 994 Member
    My son is 4 months old and just started waking up during the night to eat again.

    I keep reading about a "4 month wakeful" period, where babies that used to sleep through the night start to wake up for feedings.

    Apparently, the world is very exciting and stimulating to 4 month old babies, and instead of taking in a good amount of food during the day, they cut their feedings off to explore. This leaves you with a hungry baby at night time.

    I've also heard that this is the age when babies start to get clingy, and want your undivided attention - and nighttime is the perfect time for this.

    She could also be teething. It makes some babies sleepless and they want extra comfort.

    If baby is eating, she's probably hungry. It will pass soon enough, but I totally feel your pain. I'm a mommy zombie!
  • boomerz12
    boomerz12 Posts: 140
    I can agree to the clingy part for sure. I put my little one down and she just screams and squeals and I mean squeals! At the top of her lungs and I do know she's teething, I see a little bit of white coming through so I put Tylenol in her bottle before bed hoping she'll sleep longer but she probably is just hungry so hopefully it passes soon :3
  • BabyNurseJen
    BabyNurseJen Posts: 64 Member
    Google 4 month sleep regression. We thankfully never went through it but I've heard from countless moms who did.
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    I hate to say this but my 3 year old still wakes in the night sometimes for milk! He goes straight back to sleep, but the fact he still wakes up is a pain! I have a 21 month old too, and she didn't sleep through the night once until she was 10 months old. She was waking around 6 times at one point.

    I think at 4 months they have a big growth spurt, and it's often then that mums think they need weaning because they're more hungry, when it does pass.
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