HELP please - screaming baby at night!
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Topic: HELP please - screaming baby at night!
Posted By: My3Sons
Subject: HELP please - screaming baby at night!
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:06pm
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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!! DH thinks it is just a phase and I should just handle it while it lasts, easy for him to say lol!! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4 
 
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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!!
Any ideas and or advice please Im starting to go mad!!Replies:
Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:08pm
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We are having this same problem at the mo and our wee man is 8 months so not cool. I am no help what so ever but will be reading your replies. -------------  
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:09pm
| He might be having night terrors? Sounds pretty random if hes got his eyes closed most of the time. Daniel has the odd nightmare and we just go in, pick him up, turn his lamp on and wait for him to calm down. |
Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:09pm
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Really peanut? ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:11pm
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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! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:22pm
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OMG, its exactly the same with us! I take him to the lounge or bed with me for 5 mins and then put him back in his cot and he is straight back to sleep with no issues.
Very random. I was going to post on here today about it also. -------------
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Posted By: kakapo
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:23pm
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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! |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:42pm
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Issy sometimes cries in her sleep .. never screamed though. If she wakes during one of these episodes she does require comforting and DH and I just let her fall asleep in our arms.
If he goes straight back to sleep with you ... if worse comes to worse let him sleep with you, that way you both get some sleep! ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:49pm
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Josh crys for about a min in his sleep almost always at the same time each night but sometimes it gets to the screaming stage then i just have to go in and pick him up and jiggle him till he goes back to sleep (although recently ive had to give him another feed in the night but he has been sick so its fine).
My mum had actually suggested leaving a light on at night just a dull one as he did it one night when she was about to leave the room after putting him down and it looked like he had had a massive fright in his dream and thought it might calm him down when he woke from it. -------------   
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Posted By: LittleBug
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:58pm
 The only time Chloe ever wakes screaming in the night is when she is sick. First time I didn't know and we let it go on for days and days until she started not drinking properly, then took her to the Dr and the poor little bug had tonsilitis and an ear infection. I would probably take him to the Dr and just get them to check his ears and throat anyway... it's free (for us anyway) so I figure better be safe. Have you tried giving some pamol before bed and seeing if he sleeps any better?
Big hugs kiwimummy... sounds like a rough time!! ------------- Chloe (4 years) and Oliver (3 years). |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 4:10pm
| That does sound like the night terrors that Daniel has since they are comforted by your prescense and their dream ending they go back to sleep. Do you have a night light in his room? this helps Daniel... if that is the prob |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 4:25pm
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Oh Char that must be hard for you (and Drew Drew!)
Sometimes Harry wakes up crying hardout - usually when he wakes at night, I don't pick him up - just put his dummy in, give pamol, check nappy etc. Last time DH got up to him and he did everything, even changed nappy (it wasn't full) and he still didn't settle. Gave him a wee cuddle and he was right as rain, and went straight back to sleep. DH reckons he was just scared and needed reassuring. ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 4:37pm
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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! ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
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Posted By: LittleRed
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 4:45pm
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Ava started screaming Friday night, went on for 2 hours and at 11 we took her to the after hours dr. she had a virus and is on antibiotics, she did get to sleep eventually but at 2am she did another hour stint of full on screaming, inconsolable, shaking even.. did my head in.. but whatever it is i think i would be inclined to take him to the dr just incase he is sick and they can do something for him.
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Posted By: 2bmumof3
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 8:08pm
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Just a random thing to try but maybe leaving a radio on so when he wakes he doesn't feel alone and might be able to resettle himself. Does he actually wake up screaming or wake up then start screaming?? ------------- Sara Corban (22/11/04) Connor (18/04/06) Chelsea (21/05/08) 
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:08pm
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Anyssa did a similar thing for a while - it was just a phase and thankfully she just stopped doing it. I think she was screaming in her sleep to start with and then would wake up VERY upset.
It was awful while it lasted! Hopefully it will end soon! Hugs!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:54pm
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What about teething?
Cooper cried out hysterically during the night when he was getting his top teeth (he got them first), and the only other time was when he got his 5mth imms. |
Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 07 August 2008 at 12:13pm
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Thanks everyone for all your input, a quick update! We have had 4 days of a full nights sleep!! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
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So I still have no idea why he was doing it but we seem to have broken the screaming cycle!!
Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 07 August 2008 at 3:42pm
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to you all.
This will be something that will happen to me after bub is born, so I will be watching this thread to see everyones tips if any. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 August 2008 at 3:52pm
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I'm glad Drew Drew is sleeping through...E still won't settle without dummy replacement...but has stopped after two random nights of screaming..he's getting 4 teeth so that may be why for E.! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 07 August 2008 at 4:20pm
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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! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
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have any of the toothys poked through yet?Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 07 August 2008 at 4:41pm
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I meant it is E's teeth..when I put his bonjella on (once a day) i can feel the top two cutting and can see the bottom two coming:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |