Help! How to manage 4.5 month old baby sleep schedule at WDW?

[kboo]

I am so sleep deprived I can't think straight. 6 weeks ago we went to WDW and YDD slept like a dream - Started night time sleep in the carrier around 6 or 6:30 while we were out at dinner, transferred easily to the pack and play and slept all night, waking only to nurse and go back down easily. Everybody slept and we had a great time. We did not sleep train, and put her down in the pack and play when she was already asleep or mostly there, swaddled.

Then the 4 month sleep regression hit.

YDD still gets tired around 6:30-7pmish, usually takes 3 naps a day, but won't go down in the crib easily, wakes often, and last night was awake from 3-5am, and her 1st and 2nd naps have been getting longer.Every other to every third night she'll be up for an hour or more around 3 or 4am. So I'm thinking she's starting to get day/night mixed up? We leave for WDW on Saturday and will all be in one hotel room, what to do? We don't have enough time to sleep train - can anyone who's been through this suggest some schedules to try to get her back on track? Many, many thanks.

zzzzzz....

 

[AshleeH]

We took our daughter to DLR at 4 months - she was on a great sleep schedule and just slept in the stroller most of the time. Or in the wrap.

 

[Angel Ariel]

I am so sleep deprived I can't think straight. 6 weeks ago we went to WDW and YDD slept like a dream - Started night time sleep in the carrier around 6 or 6:30 while we were out at dinner, transferred easily to the pack and play and slept all night, waking only to nurse and go back down easily. Everybody slept and we had a great time. We did not sleep train, and put her down in the pack and play when she was already asleep or mostly there, swaddled.

Then the 4 month sleep regression hit.

YDD still gets tired around 6:30-7pmish, usually takes 3 naps a day, but won't go down in the crib easily, wakes often, and last night was awake from 3-5am, and her 1st and 2nd naps have been getting longer.Every other to every third night she'll be up for an hour or more around 3 or 4am. So I'm thinking she's starting to get day/night mixed up? We leave for WDW on Saturday and will all be in one hotel room, what to do? We don't have enough time to sleep train - can anyone who's been through this suggest some schedules to try to get her back on track? Many, many thanks.

zzzzzz....

Are you crossing time zones to get to wdw?

 

[kboo]

No, coming from NYC.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

We just put the 2nd one in bed with us after he woke at night, he would drift off while nursing vs. not going back to sleep for a long time and with tons of effort if we tried to put him back in his crib, and then there was no getting up when he needed to nurse a 2nd or 3rd time. It hadn't been my plan, but sleep is pretty important for me and we had to go with what worked.

 

[kboo]

Thanks. I was afraid of that. But contorted sleep is better than no sleep at all. Sleep training after we get back.

 

[Mousemommy1]

We took our DS when he was 3 months, and he wasn't on a great sleep schedule yet, but we go next week and he is now 15 months old and we are going to be flexible with the sleep schedule. He goes to bed normally around 7 pm and we are hoping he will sleep in his stroller or carrier, but we will see what happens. It's vacation, so we tend to be a bit more lax with bedtimes.

 

[ateam79828592]

Mom of 4 here...and we've done 6 trips in the last 7 years with little ones at various ages ranging from 3.5 months to 10 years old. WDW with babies is just whatever works! Even if she was was sleeping well at home, she might do or not do well at WDW. Just be flexible and go with what works. She may actually do better at WDW!!! When you get home, you'll get back on a schedule that works for everyone. Sounds like she is at the tricky stage of changing from 3 naps/day to 2 naps/day. And those transitions just take a few weeks. Have a wonderful trip!!

 

[quagmire0]

Oh man, I feel ya. Our youngest is 8mo now, and we only got 'out of the woods' about two months ago. One hotel room is going to be rough. Only advise I can think of is to try to simulate 'Disney conditions' this week. Lots of stroller, some noise here and there, and maybe putting him down in a pack 'n play vs. the crib.