Does anyone else's little one wake up like the fricken sky is falling? I've tried everything every book suggests and we only get 30 to 45 minute naps, and at that point there is no slow wake up, or just laying and cooing till I come in. He wakes up screaming bloody murder. I spend a half hour calming him down, which pits any hope of hom gping back to sleep out the window. Then I spend a half hour attempting to entertain him while he is fussy and cranky and screams the second he isn't entertained. Then I spend a half hour trying to get him back to sleep while he fussed and screams. The cycle continues from after his first nap at 9:30 until bedtime at 8ish. Since moving to crib he wakes 3 times a night screaming better than the 8 times he woke up whole cosleeping. The ONLY time he doesn't wake up screaming is if I intervene before he actually wakes up, such as if he is sleeping or napping with me. Ugh. Sorry to vent. Does anyone else go through this? I'm exhausted!
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Re: So tired of the screaming!
That's my only thought.
Hang in there!!
Same non-reflux screaming here. It's so hard. A few days ago, I screamed into a pillow. Today, I was pounding the bed. I had to lay him down in the bathroom and turn the fan on so I could go cry on the bed. Oddly enough, he enjoyed that and laid in there and talked to himself for at least 10 minutes while I cried it out. Then he went back to fussing, but I had my sanity back and I could go and get him. It's been worse these past two weeks than anything I went through in the first three and a half months.
He's happy enough in the morning. He screams all afternoon long. Then he's relatively happy again in the evening. Every time I start to think "he's got to be in pain, I should call the pedi" he calms down or finally falls asleep for a while. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with him but I just can't listen to the screaming and I can't figure out how to make him happy in the afternoons.