Almost on the eve of 4 months, baby said Fuck Yo Sleep. Fucking help please. Parenting

All the shit about sleep regression at four months. Whatever. I get it. Fine. What the fuck do we DO about it? The only thing I will not accept is flat out walking away and crying it out. I think that's wrong, and unacceptable for an infant with no concept of where they are and why they aren't being comforted. If that is your advice, move on.

Baby slept AMAZING until this point. Typically would go to sleep around 9-10p, sleep until 2-3a, eat, go back down until 5-6a, eat, back down until 8-9a, eat, up for good around 10-1030a. Now, she wasn't much of a daytime napper, only very short 30 min naps, but it was a good tradeoff for sleeping so consistently at night.

SHE IS NOW AWAKE AT LEAST ONCE EVERY HOUR. She will often take only enough boob or bottle to fall back asleep, only to wake again an hour later. YES, this pattern begins DESPITE nursing and taking a full 5-8 oz of of formula ON TOP OF NURSING before she falls asleep around 10-1030pm!!!!! She has never taken a pacifier and of course is offended being offered one now. She is exhausted, angry, does not want to be awake. We are exhausted, bordering on delusion, and do not want to be awake. I am scared to death that offering her a bottle or breast every 45 minutes to an hour (seriously, that is insane, she is literally never getting any deep sleep at night, and consequently is taking a 3-4 hour nap in the middle of the day) is going to ingrain a pattern that I want no part of. It has been two weeks, of the entire family being awake every hour. This is newborn shit.

Please help. I'm feeling really isolated and starting to do things that don't make sense, like put the hot coffee carafe in the lazy suzan, and finding my hairbrush in the refrigerator. My SO is of no help and just gets angry and sleeps elsewhere. He has been very helpful up to this point, but only wants to throw her in the crib and walk away with the current sleep pattern. He's overwhelmed. We both are.

Submitted February 26, 2016 at 07:55PM by wimwood http://ift.tt/1RsJt1x Parenting