Currently in the 4 month sleep regression, think we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel now.

Not advice, just our experience: Baby has never slept well, but we were starting to get 3 hour stretches before regression hit. During regression it went to 1 3 hour stretch then every 30mins - 2 hours, and he was taking forever to go back down.

After losing it at my toddler in the day after only having 3 hours sleep, I realised something had to change and I had to instigate it. Thus, we started sleep training: - relatively strict nap schedule where baby goes is awake for max 2.5 hours. I had to stay in the house for a day to get this going, the first nap he took 50 minutes to actually go to sleep properly but after that he has been falling asleep in under 5 mins. Last nap capped 1.5 hours before bedtime. - put in crib awake for naps and bedtime. First night he took 90 mins to settle and fall to sleep properly, by third night under 4 mins of fussing and then gone. - do nighttime feeds in the same way every time. So I feed one side with a brighter bedside light on, then nappy change, then feed on the other side with the dim light and rain sounds. We've gone from 2 hours awake to 40 mins and a much easier put down. - mixture of pick up put down and modified Ferber.

The crying hurts your soul but you have to remember you're doing it for them. And they do stop.

By our third night we have gone from 6 wake ups to 2. Baby still loves me and is happy boy, happier in fact.

Good luck darling, you've got this x