Trouble going to sleep at night

gmc222

DD has always been a fantastic sleeper - has been STTN since she was 2 months old with few exceptions. She typically falls asleep while nursing and I just carefully place her in her crib and she's good for the night. However, for the past week or so she goes down fine, but then 5-10 minutes later she starts SCREAMING and we have to pick her up and rock her back to sleep. This may happen 3 or 4 times, sometimes after 5 min, sometimes more like 30 min. Eventually she goes back down and still STTN, but its just that intitial going down that is the problem.

Not sure why this is happening all of a sudden - nightmares? scared of the dark when she wakes up? teething (she already has 2 teeth)? Any advice would be great!!

mesmom2011

Personally, I would rock / soothe her and be glad that she's STTN.    My LO doesn't STTN, but I'm okay with that and she does require some kind of soothing to fall asleep.  I feel like if she's waking up, she needs something.  In your DD's case, she may be having some seperation anxiety or it could be teething or any number of other things.  (too bad they can't talk and tell us what's wrong)  In the end, only you can determine what's best for your LO.

pooksmom

DD used to do this and it was has so now I make sure she burps before I put her down!

Mrs_M

My son does this sometimes and usually its a burp that is stuck. He too is EBF, so he will fall asleep after nursing then wakes up screaming his head off. Poor guy. He often times goes right back to sleep with a bit of patting on his butt and sometimes he is up.

Bonnesetter27

We used to feed to sleep too but ds would wake up about an hour later screaming. I thought maybe it was because he was scared of his surroundings (he fell asleep in my arms but woke up in the crib). We started putting him down mostly asleep and it stopped. 

fancynewbeesly

My daughter did this tonight. I put her down, started screaming-I picked her up and she fell asleep on my shoulder again. Put her down. Started screaming. Picked her up and fell asleep instantly. 

She has has been STTN for the most part since about 2-3 months, except for a pacifier retrieval (not anymore though)

I ended up doing a slightly modified CIO--mostly because she has never actually needed it. I let her cry for 3 minutes, then I went in, turn the music back on, picked her up, hugged her and put her back. I then let her cry/fuss for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes I went in, found the pacifier for her, and rubbed her back and she fell asleep. But that is so atypical of her. Usually she is asleep within 5-10 minutes of her bottle.