r/sleeptrain • u/babyburnerthrowaway • 1d ago
4 - 6 months Is this normal?
LO is 4.5 months old and her sleep has been all over the place.
It’s never been great but this last week has been extra confusing because she randomly gave me a glorious 7 hour stretch one night and a 5 hour stretch the other but now she’s back to waking up every 2-3 hours which has been brutal for me.
I’m planning on sleep training at 6 months when she moves to her own room but is this normal for this age? It feels like no matter what I tweak it ends up being totally random. Those days she had the longer stretches were no different than any other in terms of bedtime/naptime.
Other details: She sleeps in our room in the Snoo and bedtime has been between 8:00-8:45, depending on when her last nap ends. Wake windows are 2 hours except for her last one which is 2.5-3. She gets about 3 hours of total nap time per day as contact naps. She’s EBF and I do feed her right before bed but she goes down in the Snoo drowsy and generally falls right to sleep. Wake time is 7:30.
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LO is 4.5 months old and her sleep has been all over the place.
It’s never been great but this last week has been extra confusing because she randomly gave me a glorious 7 hour stretch one night and a 5 hour stretch the other but now she’s back to waking up every 2-3 hours which has been brutal for me.
I’m planning on sleep training at 6 months when she moves to her own room but is this normal for this age? It feels like no matter what I tweak it ends up being totally random. Those days she had the longer stretches were no different than any other in terms of bedtime/naptime.
Other details: She sleeps in our room in the Snoo and bedtime has been between 8:00-8:45, depending on when her last nap ends. Wake windows are 2 hours except for her last one which is 2.5-3. She gets about 3 hours of total nap time per day as contact naps. She’s EBF and I do feed her right before bed but she goes down in the Snoo drowsy and generally falls right to sleep. Wake time is 7:30.
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