Bonnie is now 4 months and is finally sleeping proper big naps during the day (no more catnapping) - which is great.

The downside, is that since she hit 3 months, her night-time sleeping has gone out the window. She goes down with minimal fuss between 6pm and 7pm, and wakes again at 9.30pm and then every 2-3 hours until we get up in the morning.

My first concern is that she's lost that really nice, big deep sleep that most babies have in the evenings (usually going from 7pm until midnight) and I'm worried that this is harming her development in any way.

My second concern is that at night-time, she will only settle with a feed (she doesn't respond to other re-settling techniques) and as a result, throughout the daytime she isn't feeding very well, and seems to put in all her feeding effort into the nighttime feeds.

I'm feeling wrecked, but am much more likely to keep plodding along if I can hear some positive stories from you guys that babies can get out of these sleep regressions without any mummy intervention necessary. I know there is not guarantee, but it would be nice to know that there's a good chance that she will go back to sleeping like she was a couple of months ago.

For the most part, her "sleep personality" is good - she goes to sleep easily and seems to want to go to sleep. This is what I keep focussing on to get me through.

I'm coming to you guys, because my early childhood nurse (and mother, and friends, and everyone else) has told me that now that Bonnie's body clock is programmed into these frequent night-time feeds, that she will not be able to snap out them without me stopping feeding her at night-time.