so for the last three nights Kendra has been waking up in the middle of the night screaming and cying. It has been taking us about 6 min or so to calm her down. Part of the time she looks as though she is still sleeping and then when her eyes are open she looks like she is so afraid. IT is really sad and scary. I can't immagine what on earth could have her so terrified. At first I though it was because she started to sleep in her own bed, but the last two nights it has been while she is sleeping with us. Plus she is waking up about 10-15 times a night jsut wimpering sort of. I give her a passy and she goes back to sleep, but it is still waking me up that many times and my brain is suffering!
any ideas on how to make this stop?? ↓
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| Name: Randi | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 3:51 PM |
I don't know either Jill. Kaden still doesn't sleep through the night and for the past few nights he has been waking up around 4 am and he doesn't want a bottle, diaper change, soother, nothing. I have to pick him up, hold him tight and just rock him. At 4am he already will have woken a few times already, but nothing like the screaming this time. It has been the past 3 nights as well. He is getting his two top teeth (they are almost all the way through) so I wonder if he is just in pain, or if it's night terrors.. I don't know.
Is Kendra cutting teeth or anything? ↑ |
| Name: mallory | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 4:31 PM |
| evelyn does the SAME EXACT thing. i think it's nightmares personally but i keep forgetting to ask her doc about it. this started when evelyn was about 4 1/2 months and now she's 8 months and cutting two teeth. maybe teething has something to do with it....i dont know :\ ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 5:53 PM |
she does seem to be teething, btu she just chews and drools I don't see of feel anything. She doesn't really act like it bothers her during the day at all so I don't think that is it. I don't understand how babies have night terrors. I mean what have they seen that is scary?? I wish I had a little window into her mind so I could know what is going on! She usually sleeps through the night just fine. She will eat about 9:30ish and go to sleep by 10:30 and then gets up about 6 or 7am. She had been doing that for at least the last two months. I just wish that I could help her.
sad thing is that I keep thinking that she is dreaming about when she fell off the bed or got a shot, because those are the only two bad things that have ever happened to her, and they are both my fault! ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 5:59 PM |
| oh and I looked it up and everything that I find says that 6mo is way too young for night terrors. Some people say colic, but I don't think that is the problem at all. She doesn't seem in pain she seems scared to death. Plus she is not doing any of the normal colic stuff at any other time of the day. I just don't get it?? ↑ |
| Name: automansgirl | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 6:00 PM |
| I'm sure she isn't dreaming of falling off the bed! My niece went through a phase like this, and the only thing that helped her was putting a cd player in her room and playing a classical cd all night. They have em for babies now, so you might try that. The classical music soothes them and it helps to develop their little brains. Good luck. Hope you can get her back to sleeping again. ↑ |
| Name: Randi | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 6:53 PM |
| Is she scared of the dark Jill? I have a nightlight in Kadens room now. He used to wake up a lot less happy. He still does if I bring him into my room and don't have a nightlight on in there. ↑ |
| Name: ..RoSey.. | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 7:19 PM |
i had the same problem with isabelle almost every hour..
i dont know how old kendra is or what is wrong with her not sleeping during the night..
but i used to wake upto izzy crying every half hour / hour all thru the night..
then oneday i put her in the bed with me.. and she slept ALL night.. and ever since then she has been with me in the bed.. i brought a special little thing for her to sleep on in our bed so i dont roll over on her.. i get the best sleeps ever now. ↑ |
| Name: mallory | Date: Sep 14th, 2007 9:00 PM |
| my father-in-law says it could be womb memories that causes the nightmares when i brought it up to him when evey was 4 1/2 months. ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Sep 15th, 2007 12:35 AM |
| tosey she is almost 6mo. She does it no matter if she is in our bed, in her pack adn play next to the bed or in her own room. We do have a night light in her room and we sleep with the tv on in our room so there is always light. I am hoping that she doesn't do it tonight. I think at this young age there is prob nothing that I can really do to help her or prevent it form happening. ↑ |
| Name: K8 | Date: Sep 15th, 2007 12:51 AM |
| Sounds like teeth to me. We did a blend of tylenol and an AMAZING homeopathic product called "teething tablets." I called them my son's "happy pills" b/c any time, day or night, if he was grumpy they made everything all better. I highly recommend them! ↑ |
| Name: K8 | Date: Sep 15th, 2007 12:53 AM |
| I meant to also add-- just b/c you don't see any teeth coming in and it doesn't seem to bother her during the day doesn't mean that it isn't teeth bothering her at night. Kenny was the same way-- seemed fine most days during the day but then would be miserable at night. when we finally started giving him meds is when we ALL slept better. ↑ |
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