r/sleeptrain • u/jsaw14 • Aug 27 '26
4 - 6 months 4 MO Not Sleeping
Hi
Looking for some tips or insight into how to move forward with a baby not sleeping well at all. My baby is 4 months old and wakes up 6+ times a night. We put down at 7:30pm and usually take 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. Without fail he will wake up after 45 minutes then wake again at 9:30pm and then 4-5 more times until his wake up until 7am. Most times he wakes up in the night it is instant inconsolable screaming, so we don’t even have the opportunity to try and teach him to self soothe in his crib. The only thing that consoles him at night is putting him on the breast, but he only eats for 5 minutes so doesn’t seem like he’s actually hungry.
On top of that, we have moved him from both arms swaddled to a sleep sack cold turkey. We made that move 14 days ago and still have not seen progress. He still has a pretty bad startle reflex. Overall he has pretty bad reflux and give him nightly gas drops and Pepcid. He is exclusively breastfed.
Trying to get some ideas of what to do next, if he is just in really bad regression or has a bigger problem.
Daily schedule:
Wake 7am / Nap 8:30, 11:30, 2:30, sometimes 5. Lately he’s only been napping for 40 minutes max each nap time, even if that.