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What on Earth is Up with This? UPDATE!

Maleficent13

<font color=blue>Heh Heh, you're all gonna die<br>
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My DD, almost a year, has always been an excellent sleeper. She sleeps in her own room and always has. She goes to bed at a fairly consistent time and falls asleep on her own. I know, lucky me...she did play the "Let's test them to see if they'll come get me" game when she first started going to bed at her bedtime, but nothing in the last few months.

Now to the weird part. The last two nights, she has fallen asleep at her normal time and woken up an hour or two later screaming...I don't mean crying...I mean SCREAMING...if I had a tape recorder I could probably sell it to some horror movie producer. It sounds like someone is poking her with sharp sticks.

She's not currently teething, and she's not sick (she was just at the doc for a follow-up to her last illness). There is nothing physically wrong with her. She's dry and not hungry. She's just screaming. She will continue to scream until I go in (I waited to see if she would self-soothe the first time...15 minutes later, she was hoarse but still screaming).

Once I picked her up, she continued to cry for almost 10 minutes before calming down.

Any thoughts? DH and I are stressed to the max, and so is DD. :(
 
I wonder if she's having bad dreams, Mal. Although she seems pretty young for that to be a problem--she's still under a year old, isn't she? I had a friend whose dd kept insisting that Pooh was biting her foot. Harmless old toothless Winnie the Pooh.

:grouphug: I'm sorry for all the stress. It's so hard when they can't tell you what the heck is wrong.
 
I think babies can start having bad dreams around one year. I know some of my kids would do this too...it scared me so badly...to hear a soundly sleeping baby just scream bloody murder like that.

This too shall pass! Just comfort her the best you can.

:grouphug:
 
Sounds like night terrors. I'd call your pediatrician.

Hope it works out for her--and you!

Anne
 

Sounds like night terrors to me too. Sam went through them for a few months. What worked with him was to put a light on in his room when he started screaming, it never fully woke him up but it got through to him somehow and he stopped screaming and fell back to sleep.
:grouphug: I know how terrifying that scream can be.
 
All I know is that everytime I think I have something settled with my kids...something else happens!
 
I would guess night terrors, too. I wonder if she is actually awake when she has them.

Emily had them when she was a baby, not quite that young. She was definitely still asleep, and I could usually get her to calm down without her even waking up. I am pretty sure she has outgrown them, though.

DH, on the other hand, still has them. He starts screaming in his sleep, and it takes an awful lot to get him to wake up. When he does wake, he is terrified.

Denae
 
My poor baby!!!! :( I had no idea night terrors could start so young!!!

She is definitely awake when I go in though...I did move her nightlight last night after I got her back down, so that now it illuminates the crib and she's not in the dark. I also took her mobile down thinking maybe that was scaring her too.
 
I agree with the night terrors! She probably woke herself up because you let her scream so long.( wow I have heard those screams and don't know how you waited 15 minutes with my first I tore in there so fast I thought she was being killed) I always just held them and let them wake up gradually because while screaming they are like posessed they don't seem to know you or what is going on. She is also switching from being a baby to a toddler so you may have to make some adjustments in her sleep patterns. Some wonderfully sleeping babies become lousy sleeping toddlers and vice versa.
 
I agree with that it may be night terrors-its like they are awake, but not really. My little one at that age would wimper in her sleep.
 
Hannathy said:
I agree with the night terrors! She probably woke herself up because you let her scream so long.( wow I have heard those screams and don't know how you waited 15 minutes with my first I tore in there so fast I thought she was being killed) I always just held them and let them wake up gradually because while screaming they are like posessed they don't seem to know you or what is going on. She is also switching from being a baby to a toddler so you may have to make some adjustments in her sleep patterns. Some wonderfully sleeping babies become lousy sleeping toddlers and vice versa.

Oh, I did tear in there...I just didn't go to her right away once I saw she was safe and not in any harm...I had no idea it was going to become what it did...I thought it was just a "fuss moment" as we call them...

It's so hard balancing what the "right" thing to do is... :(
 
Maleficent13 said:
It's so hard balancing what the "right" thing to do is... :(

No kidding. I wish there was some sort of manual. :grouphug: In a hurry is right, just when you think you have them figured out, something changes.

:grouphug:

Denae
 
Update: she slept!! All night!! Wooooooo - Hooooooooo!!!!!!!! :banana: :banana:

AND...she crawled for the first time last night!!!! I don't know if the two are related, but either way, it was a good night!!
 
Woo hoo! I was just going to pm you and ask you how she did last night.

Well, of course she started crawling! She got a good night's sleep and was raring to go. :cheer2: Hooray for Hepzibah Matilda!
 
AND...she crawled for the first time last night!!!! I don't know if the two are related, but either way, it was a good night!!

Yeah on the night of sleep! and whenever My Ava was about to do something big, crawling walking etc-she slept horrible...so they may be related! Yes! You only have how many more developmental milestones to go! (sorry I was teasing a bit)
 
Ava83 said:
Yeah on the night of sleep! and whenever My Ava was about to do something big, crawling walking etc-she slept horrible...so they may be related! Yes! You only have how many more developmental milestones to go! (sorry I was teasing a bit)

LOL! I know...and I will probably cry at all of them! :rolleyes:
 
I was also going to suggest night terrors. My DS still has them occassionally and I have finally figured out that they are much more likely to occur when he is really tired. Has your DD been extra tired those evenings? I also noticed it did seem to occur around big milestones. I wonder if working so hard to learn to crawl, etc.. just wears them out so bad that their sleep is disrupted. :confused3 My DD (14 months) had one a few weeks ago for the first time. She was pretty tired that night and she started taking steps just a few days after that. Coincidence?

I hope you and your DD have quiet nights from now on. :)
 


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