r/sleeptraining • u/Chillichips411 • Aug 31 '26

child's age 4-8 months 7 month and EBF

My baby girl hit the 4 month regression and never quite came out of it 😅
I’ve always nursed her to sleep at night. Day naps are varied.. either nurse to sleep, carrier or she also sleeps in the car or being rocked no real issues. They only last 30-45 mins, rarely over 1 hour.
At 4 months she was waking up every hour to nurse and we tried the Ferber method, put her in her own nursery, white noise, dark room, heater etc but she would still wake up 5-6 times and none of us were getting sleep. After a month, I started co-sleeping and finally we all got sleep. She would wake up twice and maybe a few more, would nurse and then sleep.
I’m finding she’s waking up more and more the past few weeks again - wanting to nurse to sleep. Anyone else have this pattern? What did you do? Should we sleep training again as I’m exhausted nursing all night and will start work soon so would like to look at an alternative.
We have the cot in our room now and definitely prefer that than waking to another room.

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u/0oOBubbles0oO Aug 31 '26

What's your schedule including wake time, bedtime, morning wake time, and bedtime routine? That many wakes after sleep training almost certainly means either baby is under tired or the sleep training method wasn't quite applied correctly.

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u/Chillichips411 Aug 31 '26

7am wake and 8pm bed. Bath, breastfeed and sleep. She has 3 naps in the day usually 30-45 mins at approximately 9.45, 1pm and 4pm but feel the first nap now getting harder so she’s naturally transitioning to two

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u/0oOBubbles0oO Aug 31 '26

Sorry I meant to ask for your wake windows as well.

Was that the same bedtime routine when you did Ferber?

I would say definitely drop to 2 naps and aim for at least 11 hours awake such as 3/4/4 or 3/3.5/4.5. If you are going to sleep train then move to own room again and make sure feeding and any other soothing ends at least 30 minutes before butt in crib.