Any tips for babies who don't sleep through the night? My 4 month old still won't STTN......?

Question

I'm breastfeeding...and it appears she may be teething.

Answer 1

All babies are different and begin the much anticipated milestone of sleeping through the night at various ages. 4 months is actually on the young end of the spectrum to expect much in the way of regular lengthy night sleeping. You might get 4-5 hours at a stretch now and then, but waking to eat around the clock, especially for breast fed babies, can easily go on for much of the first year. It is helpful to attend to night time waking with as little noise, light, and fanfare as possible. At 4 months, your baby is likely truly hungry at least once through the night and maybe even 2-3 times. When your baby wakes, take a minute or 2 to see if he/she can self-soothe back to sleep. Don't be in a huge rush to attend to him/her immediately. Once there, only turn on the dimmest light that you need to see to attend to business, maybe the hallway light will suffice. Nurse or give your baby a bottle with an air of aloof-ness, little talking and little interaction. Make the order of business when waking at night to take care of basic needs with little fun involved. Unless instructed by your doctor, don't give your baby rice cereal in his/her bottle. There is no evidence that a baby will sleep longer after eating cereal. Except for use as treatment for Acid Reflux, it is not recommended to put cereal in a baby's bottle. There is a significant risk of choking as well as cereal preventing appropriate intake of breast milk or formula for proper growth and development. Sleep-less nights is one aspect of parenting that just comes with the territory. Even when your baby has gotten into the pattern of generally sleeping through the night, you will be up and down during times of teething, illness, nightmares, potty training, etc. As they get older, you still end up regularly getting less than a full night's rest while waiting up for your pre-teen to come home be curfew or your teen driver to come home with the car or lying awake worried about your child away at college. It does seem as though sheer exhaustion will be your way of life, but then one night, you'll startle awake since you haven't heard a peep out of your little one. You'll fly to his/her room to check on him/her with your stomach in your throat only to find him/her sleeping peacefully.

Answer 2

Your baby won't sttn until he is ready. Right now he is young, with a small tummy that gets hungry again quickly. My 6 month old wakes up twice during the night for a feeding still. Do not try to put rice cereal in a bottle, as this is a choking hazard. It can also lead to overeating, obesity and diabetes. Babies really shouldn't have solids until they're 6 months of age, although your pediatrician will tell you if it's ok at 4 months. Right now, just grin and bear with it....when you have a baby, you live by their schedule.

Answer 3

Sleeping through the night is defined as sleeping for 6 hours, not the 8 or 9 that most of us adults would like. On top of that, you're breastfeeding. Breastmilk is digested by a baby much faster than formula, so breastfed babies need to eat more frequently than formula fed babies. At 4 months, your baby is still considered a newborn. She's still figuring out what its like to be a person. Make sure you start trying to establish a night time routine now, and when she's ready to sleep through the night, its that much easier. Do you cosleep? Or does she sleep in the same room with you? I found I could tolerate the night time feedings much better when that was the case. But honestly, it might take a while for her to sleep all night. My 3 year old still wakes up once in the middle of the night.

Answer 4

LOL! i don't recognize any 4 month olds who sleep in the process the night. that's honestly unreasonable to assume it at that age. only by means of fact your first daughter did, does no longer recommend your 2nd will, believe me. My 2nd is only about 11 months and nevertheless wakes 2-thrice a night. She woke each and every one million-2 hours until she became into 7 and a nil.5 months previous, then woke 3-5 situations and now could be all the way down to 2-thrice (except she is teething or ill, and innovations-blowing now she is the two and hardly slept final night in any respect). My first slept in the process the night (7pm-7am) at 6 months previous. If there became right into a magic answer, each and every infant can STTN from beginning. It;s part of being a discern. she will sleep with the aid of sometime. must be the following day night, or it must be next year.

Answer 5

She'll do it when she's ready. You don't need to bottlefeed, and you certainly don't need to fill her stomach with something it's no way ready to digest yet just to make her feel full. You shouldn't give her solids until she's obviously hungry for more than milk all the time, not just because she doesn't STTN.

My best advice would be to make her nighttime feeds / waking periods REALLY boring. Don't speak to her, don't sing or rock her, don't switch on the light (use a nightlight which gives enough light that you can just see to feed by). Don't change her unless she's smelly or very soggy. No games, no noise, no excitement. Feed her, burp her if necessary, put her back down, tuck her in, walk away.

Answer 6

My youngest is 11 months old, and still not STTN. Thankfully we cosleep, so his night wakings for nursings are no big deal. :-D Don't stress!!! She will sttn eventually. LOL

Answer 7

Your baby is only 4 months, its not a given that they sttn by now. Babies "can" do it, but so many factors weigh in on the actual sleeping patterns and all babies are different.
For example, are you bottle or bfeeding? Was your baby term or early, is he/she teething already? (a bit early I know, but again, not unheard of)
Your baby is still learning and so are you. Give it some time.

Answer 8

Oh purlease....my 2 and a half yr old still wakes in the night (only once or twice instead of 10 times but)..please dont expect her to sleep all night for a loong time. And be patient, they are only little once, cherish it.

Answer 9

you should give the baby a bottle too thats what i dont and my son sleep the whole 8hr. he only 2mth good luck

Answer 10

after the bedtime bath, give a bottle with another ounce or two in it, along with some cereal, not too thick though, thin enough to feed through the bottle, and this will kep her tummy full longer and she will sleep better.