My 4 Month Old Stopped Sleeping Through the Night.

There could be other reasons he is waking up, like teething or he could be having a growth spurt, which could be leaving him actually hungry at night (they burn lots of energy growing, and need to eat more and more often) or he could be having growing pains. Most likely he just needs to get use to not being swaddled and wiggling. Give him time, be consistant, and try not to pick him up too much, unless he really needs to eat or be changed. Just go into the room, reassure him you are there, cover him up again and pat him on his tummy or whereever. After a while he will learn to just go back to sleep on his own. Good Luck!

i stopped swaddling after two weeks

lol. this is a common time to stop sleeping through the night because of teething too. some kids also wont take any substitutes for mom and dad's love attention and closeness.

you might want to try a family bed. i did it with my son and although at your son's age it seems like something that will never end, i assure you that it does end, and it will seem too soon when it does. my son finally slept in his own bed (at least until 5 am) aroudn 16 months, but i never have any trouble getting him to bed in his crib now, i never really did the whole putting him to bed half awake thing either... and now he will just go right to sleep. so dont let the sleep trainiers tell you that you have to put them to bed half asleep, or let them cry (dont dont dont let them cry unless you are at your wits end..) but you dont have to do that - its not the only option out there.

anyway, good luck :D

Hi K.,

I have a 10 week old that I already had to stop swaddling. He also started waking himself up as soon as we stopped doing it. Let me suggest what we did if you want to teach your baby to soothe himself do it when you have patience, such as during nap time or when you put him down for bed. My son goes in to his bassinet each night awake and puts himself to sleep. I wouldn't want to try this in the middle of the night. If he can learn to calm himself to sleep, chances are he will do it in the middle of the night as well.

You can also talk to your doctor about rice cereal in his bottle at night to keep him full longer (if you aren't already doing it). Another thing that we do is put powder in his diaper only before bed time so he feels drier throughout the night.

I hope that some of this will help you, even though it isn't new information.

I remember that my baby had a few spells of not sleeping through the night at this age. If you are able, try to let him work it out on his own for a little while. This will help him learn how to self soothe, and you won't have to jump up for the rest of your life to help him get back to sleep. This might be hard to do, but if your husband is supportive, this might help you get through it. I would always look at the clock as soon as he started crying, and I'd try to hold out for 10 minutes. He has since learned to self soothe, and my 17 month old is an excellent sleeper!

even after my baby started doing this I used one of those "wedgy" things....two triangle looking pieces that are velcroed under the baby(usually to lay baby on their side). I sort of "swaddled her with the cushy sides. If she did get herself rolled over one way or the other, she was still sort of swaddled by the tightness of those triangle pieces. Does that make sense? I can picture it in my mind, but I am not too sure how my description is coming out!