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night crying

masey13masey13 member
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My LO just recently started crying out several times throughout the night.. she is still asleep but just crying.  I don't know if it is nightmares?  Has anyone else had this? what did you do?  I feel so bad for her and it has been really difficult because I am jumping up every hour or two to check on her and am exhausted.
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Re: night crying

  • aeh72aeh72 member
    Our son does this periodically. Sometimes he cries out and puts himself right back to sleep; other times, he actually wakes himself sobbing. I've assumed those are nightmares because we're able to rock him back to sleep fairly easily (i.e., in the past if it was hunger, nothing but a bottle would soothe him).  DS has historically been a good sleeper so when he has these incidents I don't let him CIO.  We pick him right up. Thankfully (knock on wood), they don't happen very often or I suppose we would be looking at CIO techniques.
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  • meglette417meglette417 member
    My DS does this and he usually just falls asleep again so I don't even get up but if he is really screaming he won't go back to sleep easy and I usually put him in bed with us.
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  • mkenney12mkenney12 member
    We have been having this issue also so I asked my Ped about it, could it be night terrors? He said it is most likely them coming out of a sleep cycle. As long as they put themselves back to sleep easily it's not a big worry but it does scare you!
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  • mierasm1mierasm1 member

    This happens to us every night. He starts screaming (loudly) 4-5 times every night throughout the night. I used to run in and pick him up and calm him down because it sounded like he was terrified or in pain. Recently I decided to try to let him CIO and it has been so much better. I used to pick him up right away and try to soothe him,but I found out that I woke him up more and he got way more worked out. I leave him in bed and he never cries for more then a couple of minutes and then puts himself back to sleep. I watch the clock everytime it happens and if he cries longer then 5 min I go in to pat his back and turn on his music.  Sometimes it looks like he is still sleeping through the screaming and other times he is 1/2 awake, but honestly the best thing I have done is to not pick him up each time. It's hard, but I honestly think it is easier on him because he is more likely to stay asleep.  Our Ped said it was part of sleep cycles and not to worry. It usually happens around the same times every night.  One thing we do make sure we do is to put him awake in the crib so he doesn't wake up cryign wondering how he got there.

    Good luck! We are dealing with the same thing .

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  • Lynnette171Lynnette171
    Mine has too, except is has gotten much worse this past week. I am going to take him back to the pedi this week I think to rule out an ear infection because I can't think of anything else...he used to go back down fairly easy but he has been screaming for half hour intervals 2-3 times a night (not waking up though).   We bed share. I have tried to just reassure him but it hasn't been working. Last night I had to actually get up and walk with him to get him quiet again.  
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