Nightime waking and screaming for last 4 nights!!!

Melony - posted on 05/06/2009

My daughter did the same thing, so I phoned my pede too. He said that anyting no matter how small thet might have changed in her routine at school could cause this too. Also said that this will not be the first and the last time this will happen. Good luck to all, nice to know your not allone hay?

Holly - posted on 05/04/2009

My son has been doing this recently as well, must be in ther air! Ehh. Momma needs sleep. haha Our ped told us to start giving Zayne 1 calms forte. It is a little tiny pill that will disolve once it hits his mouth. I buy mine at a vitamin store in town. I would check with your doc first but it is not habit forming, and works like a dream for us. Just make sure you get the childrens kind, because they do make an adult kind as well.

Cecilia - posted on 04/28/2009

my son has been doing the same thing he is 14 months perhaps it is a nap problem, becuause he doesn't always have his naps at the same time and i think that throws off his schedule and he can't sleep through the night like he used to. i think also that he's afraid of being alone in his crib, i put a softy blanket toy in his crib and that seems to help him fall asleep. when he wakes up and cries like he's scared i try to put him back to sleep but it's not use, so i feed him a bottle of milk from a sippy cup. thankfully last night he didn't wake up once until 7am and i was surprised i guess it just depends on the baby. good luck

Marlene - posted on 04/28/2009

My son was doing something very similar so my doctor, who made sure there was nothing medical going on, referred us to a psychologist who specializes in infant sleep. She determined that since my son wasn't napping well and was only sleeping 9 hours at night that he was having mini night terrors due to chronic sleep deprivation. I worked on his naps first and that helped a bit but ultimately I had to start putting him to bed awake (I used to nurse him to sleep). At first he cried for 1.5 hours and I would go in every 15 minutes to put him back down and check he was ok, but I didn't stay in the room for long. The next night he fell asleep in 15 mins and slept through the night. He did this for about a week and now he goes to sleep peacefully and sleeps through the night.

I hope this helps - good luck. I know how you feel. I used to have to go into work having spent 5 hours a night up with my son when things were at their worst. It's much much better now!

Jenna - posted on 04/27/2009

hi my 14 month old is exactly the same he used 2 sleep all nite from 7 at nite til 7 in the morning but now hich has happened for several weeks hes been waking up about 12 then 2 then 4 then 6 and sits up and will not settle just scream scream scream like you hes a very healthy baby eats loads drinks plenty crawls about every really happy child but not at NIGHT lol and like you its very tireing id also know what we could do! my daughter did the same she used to sleep all nite when she was a baby then she used to wake up screaming aswell so i used to let her sleep with me and she used to be fine and sleep but now shes 3 and is still sleeping in my bed with me and i dont want the same with my son what can i do?