Dagster, thats the great thing about this forum, you can ask a question and someone is bound to be going through the same thing!

KA, if it was teeth I better not get too used ot the sleeping through cause he still is a gummy bear!  have any of the toothys poked through yet?

Thanks everyone for all your input, a quick update!  We have had 4 days of a full nights sleep!!  So I still have no idea why he was doing it but we seem to have broken the screaming cycle!!

Luke does this sometimes as well.  DH is sure that he is just scared and lonely, as the other night once I had picked him up and cuddled him he went straight back to sleep.

Best of Luck, sounds like lots of us are suffering from the same thing!

We went through a similar sort of thing a couple of months ago. Several times a night DS would cry out and not go back to sleep until I got up and replaced his dummy. Drove me bananas!

It went on night after night until one night I was so completely exhausted I slept right through the whole night and woke up at 7am. I can't tell whether DS continued to cry out during that night as neither DH or I heard him. But I think he must have, as I heard him again the next night. However, I told myself to resist the urge to *rescue* him and surprisingly enough, he made crying noises for a while (seemed like forever) then went back to sleep. I looked at him a couple of times and saw he had his eyes closed while crying - so perhaps they're just having a nightmare or something?  He never actually screamed though.  Over the next week or so, the number of times he cried out gradually decreased, and now he sometimes sleeps 12 hours, and at most may cry out twice.  There are the odd times that I replace his dummy for him - like when he starts talking to himself at 5am and I'm not ready to start the day yet.  But I've tried really hard to resist the urge to rescue him, and that seems to have helped. 

Edited to say this will be of no use to you now I've seen the further posts!

Stacey its hard to describe, almost like he wakes himself up with his screaming?  and gets more and more worked up, the letting him cry certainly would never work!  When he really went mental last night I picked him up, brought him out into the lounge and lay him on my lap and he was asleep in 5 minutes!

Really peanut?  to you!  Babies aye!!

I am so  

Drew is 6 months old.  He has slept through the night since around 7-8 weeks old.  he has always been hard to get into bed for the night but once he was down that would usually be it until the morning.  Lately however!! He has been waking up absolutely screaming!  Several times a night, last night was 4 times, but it had taken me about 1 1/2 hours to actually get him to bed and then he woke up an hour later doing his prunes and I was so and ended up  and walked out and left him until I had calmed down. The majority of the time his eyes are still closed too so hes not fully awake IYKWIM?  I am 99% sure he is not unwell, will see how tonight goes and maybe take him to the drs tomorrow just to make sure.  He has a warm room, a full tummy, i dont think hes too hot or cold and hes is fine during the day, happy as larry!!

DH thinks it is just a phase and I should just handle it while it lasts, easy for him to say lol!! Any ideas and or advice please Im starting to go mad!!