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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Wifezzilla
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I need help...anyone dealing with nightmares?
Wifezzilla
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the baby would sleep really well until the beginning of october, when we moved. he was 8 months old and just stopped sleeping through the night completely. he'd fuss and whine, and then started in with a routine of going to bed around 9pm (i work until 8pm, so this was what the time he could get to bed if he had been at daycare all day) and waking up at 5 or 6am for a bottle. no big deal.
but the majority of nights, he wakes up screaming in his sleep. last night was the worst, and it had to have been a nightmare. he went to bed at 930pm, which was kind of late, and woke up at 1230am screaming. he wasn't wet, not hungry, no fever, no cuts or anything to make his body uncomfortable, and comforting him only made things worse. after about a half hour of him fussing, crying, and whining, he fell asleep in our bed. we moved him to the crib and he was okay until about 6am when he woke for a bottle.
i think we need to do any form of CIO now, starting tonight. he sleeps fine for naps, but at night i feel like we're never going to get a full night's sleep because we don't know what will happen in the middle of the night.
i read online that nightmares can happen if the kid doesn't get enough sleep and goes to bed overtired. i also read that comforting them is futile and just let them ride it out. he's going to be 11 months old at the end of the month.
so is there any advice or resource anyone can offer? i have never been this sleep deprived, not even when he was a newborn.
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Re: I need help...anyone dealing with nightmares?
honestly, that is helpful. "nothing you can do" is very helpful because it means that there's nothing we haven't yet tried, lol.
it's not something that's any sort of fun when it's almost 1am and it's been a few days since i got more than 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. it's so much easier to let him fall asleep in our bed and move him to the crib, but if he's going to act like this, then leaving him alone is going to be everyone's best option.
does patting him on the back of giving him a paci help? M was having so much trouble GETTING to sleep the last few nights we broke out the pacis again. She started with them and then ended up with her thumb.
usually I'll pat her, if I need to I'll pick her up and hold her against my shoulder and hum a little to get the calming started. Then I lay her back down. Just the last few nights she's been inconsolable.
They are going through so many developmental things right now. All of that combined is enough to make them not sleep well. I sleep trained both of my birls at 6 months, but my 11 month old is now waking up once a night also...who the heck knows why.
Now my 2 year old is having serious nightmares. she won't go to sleep...she is afraid of the dark,, etc. etc. She seriously will not go to sleep until 1 am no matter what I do. It is brutal.
So let me just fore warn you....you probably won't sleep again until they are sleeping when they are teenagers and they sleep all day and night...and then you might not sleep out of worry lol!
he didn't even want the pacifier last night. he just kept pushing everything, including us, away. i was very close to bringing him to the ER because i wasn't sure if there was anything wrong with him, until DH realized it was probably a nightmare.
it just seems like once we get through one developmental milestone, and the sleep interruptions that come along with it, another one pops up. this makes it difficult to know if what is going on is normal!
we moved his crib from one wall to another in the bedroom and i hope this has nothing to do with it because he's going to have to deal with it.