Our 4 month old baby girl is an insomniac. How can we get her to sleep better?

J.K. H asked:


She sleeps at night for about 40 to 90 minutes at a time on average and wakes up. Sometimes she’ll cry or moan herself back to sleep. Sometimes we’ll feed her or rock her back to sleep. During the day, she’ll have three naps of about 45 minutes each. Needless to say, we are at our wits end, having gone four months without a decent night’s sleep. She is in our bedroom (1 bedroom apt.), no choice there. We did put up a screen around her crib so she couldn’t see Mom and Dad in bed, but it didn’t help. We tried Zantac for acid reflux per doctor’s orders and it didn’t help. Sometimes, if we put her in our bed she’ll sleep better, put this won’t work for us. We are now trying the Ferber method, letting her cry it out some and she seems to sleep even less. Any ideas?


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