Screaming

[El1en]

Hi ladies, I'm going to see my health visitor later in the week but my Lo has frightened me today and I wondered if anyone had any experience

My Lo is just about 6 months old

The last couple of weeks she has always had a little cry when she goes down for naps but neither of us has really got stressed about it

Anyway the last two weeks her sleep at night has gotten quite bad, she suddenly screams really loudly wanting her dummy back in, it's a really horrible scream, this happens maybe 4 times as well as me being up twice to feed her. Sometimes the dummy goes in and she's ok other times I have to give her a cuddle


This morning I put her down for a nap like usual and she really started to scream. She was asleep but screaming the most awful pained high pitched scream. It went on for maybe 3 or 4 minutes (felt like a lifetime) and I couldn't wake her up, eventually she just stopped and woke up. I'm now lying next to her and she's playing with my hand but I can tell she's not happy. It's really scared me

Has anyone ever experienced this?

 

[northerngirl]

My LO has been like this recently, he's just turned 7 months. For the past 3 weeks he's been up wanting a bottle every 2 hours right through the night, screaming like crazy. He's even burst blood vessels in his eye a couple of times from screaming. Through the day he's the happiest baby you could imagine.
The only thing I can think of is that it's teething? If there was something seriously wrong I thing it would present itself in the daytime as well. Other things I've thought of are things like ear pain?
Try not to worry, trust me I know it's hard. Get her to the doctor is you're not happy but hopefully it is just teething and a phase xo

 

[can]

Sound like night terrors to me. My 21 month old has had them since about 18 months and it's terrible. He wakes up screaming, he in inconsolable, the more you try to calm him the more hysterical he becomes. Happens couple of times a month now and usually takes a hour to get him back to sleep after. Good thing is they don't remember it in the morning and definitely more scary for the parents.

 

[Iwant3]

my daughter was much older when this happened to her around 2-3 years old - she would be crying and screaming and really upset, but after a while we realised she wasn't actually awake! and wouldn't respond to you consoling her as she was asleep. sometimes it seemed impossible to calm her and quieten her down.

 

[BunnyN]

DD does this when she is teething, could that be it?

 

[El1en]

Thanks for the replies girls I have wondered if is teething. She's such a grumpy bugger. I think she's quite frustrated at not being able to move all that much which is giving her a bad temper, I seem to need to be 3 steps ahead and what she wants to hold/do next. I hope the night time thing is a phase, I'm so tired