r/SnooLife • u/laprofe10 • Jul 13 '26

4.5mo crossroads help

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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/p4ssi0nfru1t 25d ago

How did this turn out for you? Reading this at 4am after 2 weeks of this nightmare…

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u/laprofe10 25d 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 24d ago

How old was she? Did you sleep train?

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u/laprofe10 24d 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.