My baby has his nighttime routine which
works great and he falls asleep easy and
we put him in his bassinet and everything
is just fine...for about the first hour.
Then he wakes up screaming. He is 3 months
old. Usually when he wakes up it starts
with some kicks and wiggles and then a
wine and then a cry and so on but at night
and only for bedtime he wakes up all of a
sudden with a big loud cry. Every night he
does this, every night! It is driving me
and my husband insane. We can't put him to
bed and then go to bed ourselves because
we have to wait up for at least an hour or
two for him to do his little nighttime
wakings. What is he doing? Why is he doing
it and how do we stop it?
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Lilly Ivy
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Posted: 07-19-08 22:33pm
Do you pick him up quickly when he does
this?
My daughter is also 3 months old and would
occasionally do that. One night she did it
and I couldn't get to her right away, and
about 5 minutes later, she completely
stopped, fell back asleep and slept for
another about 6 hours. I just chalk it up
to a nightmare, but my doctor doesn't seem
concerned about it since she goes right
back to sleep.
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mominashoe
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Posted: 07-20-08 10:56am
Yes, this is true. Babies can wake up in
the middle of the night just like adults,
but it doesn't mean that they need to get
up. Only get him if he cries longer than
a few minutes....don't leave him be for
more than 5 minutes. Sometimes a few
minutes is all they need to find out how
to comfort themselves and fall back
asleep. It may take about a week or so,
but once he realizes that he needs to do
this on his own, he will stop making the
loud cries for you.
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worriedauzzi
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Posted: 07-20-08 11:01am
Babies can have nightmares, I know its
weird... like what do they have to be
scared of. My younger sister when she was
a baby she started developing these
nightmares at abour 8weeks old. After
extensive testing to find out the problem
(as she would wake up at around 12 and
scream non stop for hours) they worked out
that it was her waking up from a bad dream
and frightened and screaming. What
eventually worked for her was not touching
her because when she woke up screaming she
was still half asleep and when she got
picked up then she would wake completely
and not fall back to sleep, but when left
she would stop after a bit and then
continue sleeping. This may not be your
child's problem but for my sister this
lasted until she was in her 2's.
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nickyandalan
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Posted: 07-30-08 14:17pm
This is probrably gonna sound silly 'cause
every1 else is surgesting it's nightmares
but could it be Colic??
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worriedauzzi
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Posted: 07-31-08 04:26am
Well my baby has colic and she doesn't
have those symptoms I spoke abour earlier,
she wakes up completely and will keep on
crying and screaming until she is burped
fed and burped some more ... she feeds
every couple of hours but with her she
starts of cooing for a bit and if ignored
than will scream until somebody respnds,
thats why i suggested nightmares for her
baby.
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nickyandalan
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Posted: 07-31-08 06:21am
worriedauzzi
wrote:
Well my baby has colic and
she doesn't have those symptoms I spoke
abour earlier, she wakes up completely and
will keep on crying and screaming until
she is burped fed and burped some more ...
she feeds every couple of hours but with
her she starts of cooing for a bit and if
ignored than will scream until somebody
respnds, thats why i suggested nightmares
for her baby.
I wasnt trying to be nasty so please dont
take my post the wrong way i was just
suggesting Colic that was all, i wasnt
saying that you were wrong.
Courtney some times not often wakes up in
the night crying then i get her out and
put her in our bed and then shes fine.
