Wakes up crying every single time!

Deez10

So does anyone's LO cry every time they wake up?  DS has a full blown meltdown until we "save" him from his room in the morning (or after his naps).  I'm not even kidding, every wake up is a screaming/crying fit.  Not once have DH and I been woken up in the morning because he's entertaining himself.  Nope - full on screaming his head off is how our mornings start (pleasant 6 a.m. alarm!).

He does have really bad separation anxiety so I think it just has to do with him waking up alone... but wow.  I really didn't think he'd still be doing it at this point.

Not sure what I'm looking for here, maybe just to know he's not the only one..?

anasazi17

I'd say A wakes up this way about 70% of the time.  The rest of the time she wakes up fine, but I really have about a 30 second window to get up there before the wailing starts.  

She wakes up from her nap screaming almost every single time. 

Elsa1984

Gator was that way until we put a radio with soft music playing in her room. She would wake up and instantly scream 100 percent of the time. Since the radio, it's like once a week...sometimes less. She will wake up and lay there for a bit, play with her stuff animal, and then eventually start yelling to see if we come...but no screaming

Deez10

Oh sweet relief.  I'm not the only one.  Thanks for the replies, ladies.

AngLK987

I'd say 90 of the time it's a screaming fit, and I live for that ten percent where I can see and hear her chattering to her animals or singing to herself. melts. my. heart.

mrs.lizzieb

DS was that way too when he was this age.  I would hear my friends talk about their LOs waking up and just playing in their crib for awhile before they'd go in to get them.  I was like "What?  That's not even remotely a possibility in our house."  He'd wake up just pissed off, and I'd have to go in immediately.  It was a phase though, and he outgrew it sometime in the 2s.  Now DD is the same way 75% of the time.  And she's waking up at 5:30am right now, so my mornings start off nice and early with a blood-curdling scream.  It's fun.