For the past three nights Asher has woken around 10 or 11 SCREAMING. The first couple nights I was able to console him and lay him back down after about 10 or 15 minutes. I thought 'ok maybe he is having bad dreams.' Well, tonight he would NOT calm down. Screamed for 40 minutes straight like someone was trying to kill him. He wouldn't even look me in the eyes so it was like he was possessed. (Freaky!) So I'm trying to figure out what his deal is and I am wondering if he is waking up hungry. He gets a bottle before bedtime, but he rarely eats what I would consider to be a good dinner. He is in the 'throw my food on the ground' stage. I try a variety of foods but the kid just won't eat much. I never worried too much about it (you know since they say kids won't starve themselves) but now I'm thinking it might be tied to the screaming episodes.
What do you think? Have you had experiences like this with your toddler? I am in need of some sound advice because tonight's scream fest very nearly made me lose my marbles. I am slowly getting tired of being a sole caregiver 24/7. Sheldon has so much more patience than me. :(
5 comments:
Oh that is the worst. Both of my kids went through that and I'm sorry to say, I have no answers. I don't know what it is or what causes it or how to end it, but it DID eventually end. One thing I would try is taking him out of his room and changing the scenery. Let him see it's dark outside, dark in the house, everybody's sleeping, give him a drink...I don't know what else to say. I really feel for you though. It's nights like those that you really need an extra pair of hands. Good luck.
Oh my goodness! Brenna just went through the SAME thing but her's was always around 3:00 am. She's actually done it a few times, but never this bad. NOT fun. It was so weird because she would wake up SO ANGRY and it was kind of like she was in a really weird half asleep thing. We wondered if it was bad dreams, but she was doing the same thing with her dinner, so I thought she might be hungry too. Feeding her a snack would help sometimes, but sometimes she would calm down if she just got a drink. We also thought she might be getting cold, cuz she won't stay covered up, so we got some warmer pj's and put a heater in her room - that worked too. Sometimes she simply just wanted to be held - for hours!! I really don't know what it was, I'm sure it was just a phase. I wondered too if she was teething or just, not feeling well or if she was maybe just scared because she felt lonely for some reason. Sorry to tell you but her's lasted almost a month. The funny thing is one night she didn't do it and she's been good ever since. Sorry you have to deal with it alone, I really don't know how single mothers live to see their kids grow up! I don't even know how I did it with Tyson here! Try to take naps when he does - that really helped me. Good luck!!!!
It sounds like sleep terrors. I don't know exactly what or why it is but they start screaming without really being awake and act really weird like they don't realize you're there ('cause they really are still asleep). Eva did it a few times around that age and I have a friend who's baby daughter is doing it now.
yeah, Bristol woke up screaming (well she still does sometimes and she is four). I attributed it to dreams. She would usually have a drink and then go back to sleep. Some nights it was worse than others. My friend also had a son that did (and still does sometimes). They have to take him to a different room and wake him up to get him to stop and then he goes back to bed. Sometimes they have to turn the light on to wake him up. I think when they first start having dreams it is hard for them to realize what is real and what isn't and it just freaks them out. Plus who know what the little guy is totally going through with seeing Sheldon and then leaving again. That was always tough of Bristol. I feel for you though, it is never fun to have to deal with a screaming child in the middle of the night. However, at least it is not 1 or 2 in the morning right now. Definitely take a nap when he does because otherwise you will be crazy tired mom trying to deal with crazy child.
You should ask mom about Bristol's screaming antics last year when Nate was always gone. One time, mom said, "It was like she was possesed". I feel for you. It will all be better soon when Sheldon is around. Which he is super patient in the middle of the night with him (flashback to Disneyland, hee hee). Sorry I wrote a novel.
Our Lucy does that sometimes. It's scary. I THINK sometimes it's an earache. Not all kids pull on their ears when they hurt, and earaches are so painful and there's not much relief for them. When Lucy wakes up screaming like that the first thing I do is give her Tylenol and it seems to shorten the episodes.
We also thought it might be night terrors but something convinced us it wasn't...of course I can't remember what that was right now, sorry.
Lucy won't let us touch her when she's having the episodes, that seems to make it a lot worse, so we have to just put her on the couch and sit as close to her as we can so she can come to us when she's ready.
I'm sorry you're going through this alone. Ugg.
Post a Comment