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Fighting sleep at night? Screaming?

CHS2005CHS2005 member
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We have been trying to get DS to go to sleep a little earlier and he seems to be sleeping better because of it. We start getting ready for bed around 6:15/6:30 and then are really ready to sleep at around 6:45 -- THEN we have 20-30 minutes of screaming, crying, hysterics, until he wears himself out. He is FINE and then right before he nods off, he winds himself back up for 30 minutes of unhappyness!! ?We try BF-ing, walking, singing, bouncing,... Is this normal? Any advice on what to do? tia?
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Re: Fighting sleep at night? Screaming?

  • mrobertson20mrobertson20

    If he knows the routine and knows what is coming that might be why he is screaming so bad.  Wait a little later until he is more tired?

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  • MexicoBride0507MexicoBride0507
    It sounds like being overtired, try getting better naps during the day.  That worked for us. GL
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  • carolina1178carolina1178

    ditto sounds like he is overtired by bedtime. I know it sounds scary and it used to freak me out when ds would fall asleep a couple hours before his bedtime...but they are only catnaps for about 30 minutes and he still will go to bed at bedtime :-) Before I thought he would stay up late but he just needs something to take the edge off to make it to bedtime.

    ds naps about every 2 hours during the day....2 morning naps@45min.each, 2 hour nap and then a late evening nap for about 30 minutes at 5:30. His bedtime usually falls at 7:30 by the time we are done with bedtime routine.

    good luck!

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  • Amymarie13Amymarie13 member
    Mine did this at your Dc age exaclty. SHe would see the swaddle blanket and go NUTS. She knew what was coming and wanted none of it. Focusing on naps has helped, although now we're really struggling with getting good naps. also, I bf, and giving her a bottle to "top off" after bfing at bedtime helped too...maybe she was hungry, or maybe it was comforting.  she does not do it anymore. (but she does sometimes at naptime!!)
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  • regenabregenab member

    I agree with PP sounds like he may be overtired. Since you are putting him down at like 6:45, make sure he has not been up for more than 2 hours prior to this time. I would put him down for a nap at like 4:00 - 4:15 for a 30 minute nap. Also if he is not overtired because he is already getting a later afternoon nap then it sounds like my girls when we started working on them learning to self-soothe. This is how we overcame this. We do their normal bedtime routine which for us ends with their last feeding of the day. When they finish their bottles we put them in their cribs awake, say good night to them in a soft voice and shut the door as we leave the room. We turn on the monitor and once the started to cry we gave them 3-5 mins. of crying time to work it out on their own (learn to self-soothe) then we go back in. We give them their paci and shush them a few times to get them to calm down. After they are calm we walk back out of the room. If they start back up again we wait another 3-5 mins. before going back in. We keep repeating this process until they stop and sleep. If at anytime during the 3-5 min. of crying they stop crying then start back up again the 3-5 min. clock starts over again.

    We never pick them up, unless they are escalating not calming down when we are helping them to soothe. I have only picked up one of my girls once and that was because she just would not calm down at all, turns out she was having a growth spurt and wanted a couple of more ounces of formula, once I gave her 2 extra ounces she went right to sleep in her crib. I treat picking them up like I would pulling a fire alarm I only do this as a last resort. I don't feel like I am neglecting them by  not picking them up because I am there to help soothe them from the side of their crib, I just am not going to do the soothing for them, they are learning to do it for themselves.

    The first couple of days of this was the hardest, but each day they got better and better. By the end of one week they hardly fussed at all if any when we put them down to bed. It is rare now that we have to go into their room after we put them in their cribs for the night. We started doing the self-soothe thing at 3 months old (2 months adjusted).

    I hope it gets better for you

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