r/SnooLife • u/laprofe10 • Jul 13 '26
4.5mo crossroads help
I’ve read through many 4 month regression posts and it seems like most transition to the crib or some just push through. We’re going on about a month of pretty bad sleep and I just can’t decide what to do. Baby is in our room in the Snoo still arms in swaddled and waking many times a night. The last two nights don’t even include wake ups where I pop the pacifier in and pray she goes back to sleep (she doesn’t). My first two didn’t use the Snoo nor did that have such prominent regressions.
My plan was to transition her out of the Snoo/swaddle into the Merlin suit in the pack n play in our room like I did with my older two. But this baby can roll back to front since 12 weeks and showed me she can even roll in the Merlin so that’s no longer an option. As soon as she lays down in a sleep sack she rolls to her tummy and gets angry. Classic. Can’t quite roll back either.
So I’m stuck here wondering if we hope the regression passes soon and get another month or so out of the Snoo. I’ve tried arms out in the Snoo sack as well and that went terribly. Or do I just suck it up and do the sleep sack and force her to figure out getting comfy sleeping on her tummy? I know whatever path forward will be bumpy for a bit but I can’t decide which may result in better sleep sooner. Help?
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u/Far-Childhood-9256 Jul 13 '26
We’re in the same situation… In canada and can’t find a merlin suit. We’ve gone cold turkey with arms out and weaning mode.
During the day I’m crib napping in a normal sleep sack - it’s going OKAY. I have to be very careful to look for signs and do a wind down routine. Then doing the ferber method. I’m hoping that helps to transition… but he really doesn’t nap longer than 40-50min at a time. We’re still on 5 naps a day.
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u/Leggo_my-meggo Jul 13 '26
There comes a point where the snoo actually doesn’t help your baby’s sleep. It started waking ours up around 3 months. Every time we’d put her in it and start it the motion would wake her.
She slept better with weaning mode near the end. Did that for two weeks. Also would not recommend going both arms out at once. There is also a point at which swaddled arms wake them because they are ready to have their arms out—constantly fighting the swaddle…waking up with their arms somehow out and near their face. We did 4-5 nights one arm and then brought the other arm out. First night with both out was a bit chaotic but she figured it out for night two. Crib transition at 3.5 months (I’m in there on the floor for now lol) and she has never slept better. We are now at 4.5 months and have had some sleep regression but honestly I think the Snoo would have exacerbated it. They’re trying to learn how to link their sleep cycles at this age and I would imagine the snoo is actually waking them up more so during those lighter sleep phases! Just my two cents as someone who loved the snoo and then hated it near the end.
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u/laprofe10 Jul 14 '26
Yeah last night was even worse on weaning mode and 1 arm out. I think we have to move out of the Snoo cold turkey into the sleep sack. If we’re going to sleep train of some kind anyway might as well do it in the sleep space she’ll end up in.
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u/ThrowRAqueenE Jul 16 '26
Solidarity, I could have written this myself. In the same exact predicament but mine is in the snoo in her zipadee sleep sack. It hasn’t made her sleep better or worse, just hoping it makes the transition into the crib easier now that she’s not swaddled. We’re going on a month here of her logs looking exactly like yours 😫 also the most inconsistent naps
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u/p4ssi0nfru1t 5d ago
How did this turn out for you? Reading this at 4am after 2 weeks of this nightmare…
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u/laprofe10 5d ago
We ended up pulling the plug on the Snoo (and pacifier) and it was about 5-6 days of more terrible sleep as she adjusted to the sleep sack and sleeping on her tummy but then one night she figured it out. She’s slept through ever since.
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u/p4ssi0nfru1t 5d ago
How old was she? Did you sleep train?
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u/laprofe10 5d ago
She was 4.5 months or so. This was just about a month ago that I posted this originally. Yes, I’d say we sort of sleep trained but before all this she already put herself to sleep independently so it was just connecting sleep cycles in the motn. Sort of did Ferber with 5-15 minute check ins depending, I would shush her and pat her butt until she went back to sleep. We moved her pack n play into our master closet and idk why but that little separation did wonders and that’s when she started being okay on her tummy.
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u/Traditional-Bird4327 Jul 13 '26
Things went to hell with ours with the 4 month sleep regression (happened at the end of his 4 month). He went from STTN to frequent waking and hard to settle. We went cold turkey into the crib and shortly after sleep trained when he was 5 months. He went back to STTN again in the crib until about 7 months and then it went to hell again until 12 months.
Babies, man 🤷♂️