Looking for sleep advice!!

My little boy is 4.5 months and for at least 6 weeks every bedtime we have the same issue. He’s able to fall asleep by himself with no problems but when he enters into his next sleep cycle (usually 45 mins to the second) he cries until he is comforted and this repeats usually on average another 4 or 5 times until he is finally in a deep sleep. I’ve tried playing with his last wake window to see if he’s over or under tired, changing how much day sleep he gets (usually around 3.5hrs a day), clothing in case he’s too hot or too cold and he’s definitely not hungry. I wondered if it was his dummy falling out but he still wakes and cries even if his dummy is still in his mouth! Just wondered if anybody has any advice on anything else I can try? I feel so sorry for him with it happening every night without fail ☹️

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What time is bed time? Is he maybe going to bed too early the initial time and thinks it's a nap?

Try swaddling him with a blanket. We do this with my little one as he goes into an active sleep and wakes himself up. So we swaddle him with a blanket and he stays asleep 7:30-11ish until he has his next bottle. This is when I then take the blanket away. We keep a super close eye on him as he can roll side to side but not over yet. But we’ve had no issues and found it’s really helped him sleep through too the next bottle! xx

@Simone between 7:15-7:45, I aim for 7:30. That’s not something I’ve considered! Thank you for the suggestion

@Evie it might not work but might be worth trying a little later or if possible keep the early bed time and drop a nap maybe? My little one goes through phases of doing it too and I just play around with bedtime a bit to see if anything changes it. Its so hard to work it out though.

@Evie I had the same problem when my daughter was that age! I ended up pushing her bedtime back to about 8:30 and she started sleeping through☺️ though she’s never been much of a scheduled napper and wake windows have never been consistent with her!

But what if they give every indication that they are very ready for sleep at a certain time? Is the recommendation still to try to push the bedtime back?

This was happening to us too. On Monday he was so sleepy around 5:30 so let him have another nap and later bedtime of 8/8:30…best thing we ever did as he slept till 1am. I was shocked. Tonight he slept till gone 2am. Hoping it’s not just a fluke and continues to get better. So maybe try a later bedtime and I hope it works for you x

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