Baby Nightmares/Dreams

trackgirlparis

Who else has a baby who frequently has (what seems to be) nightmares?

DD has them a lot lately and just cries or shrieks in her sleep. Like sobbing crying and loud shrieks until I wake her up. Now, obviously I don't want to wake her, but last night for instance, she sobbed for five minutes straight until I did.

Makes me sad :-( and makes me wonder what she could be dreaming about!

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trackgirlparis

cdhaslag said:

DD does this occasionally! She will literally burst into tears. I always pick her up and it rarely wakes her up but usually calms her down. Twice I've had to wake her up. I think it honestly scares me more than her.

FWIW DH has night terrors... Violent screaming horrible night terrors. When he has them I almost always have to change the sheets because he sweats through them. I constantly find myself hoping DD won't somehow inherit this.

DD never wakes from them unless I actively talk to her or take her pacifier away. She would sleep right through them otherwise.
My brother has night terrors as well. Extremely bad ones and has seen a psychiatrist for them and everything. I grew up having to wake him from those almost one a week.

carawasa

my LO will sometimes cry in her sleep (she used to do it more when she was smaller) but it only usually lasts about a minute and she is still sleeping.  My cousins son had night terrors as a baby, though.  So I guess I wouldn't rule it out if it happens frequently! 

ballygirl

Yes - my girls - especially Lizzy have been doing this quite a bit recently.  Just crying in her sleep.  She stops when I pick her up but never wakes up and if I leave her and don't pick her up, the crying gets worse.  We've had to put the girls in separate rooms temporarily because Lizzy kept waking Haley up.  I'm hoping its a phase?  Please, please be a phase!

ksimo6

Yup. She will just ball for about a minute and then settle back down. My mom said I used to cry in my sleep a lot as a kid. It makes me sad for her.

Icarriedawatermelon

My LO has just started doing this as well. It breaks my heart to see her so sad and crying in her sleep. Like you, I don't know what I should do when it happens. Wake her up? Let her go? Luckily while I'm contemplating what to do, she usually stops.