We've had several rough nights lately. For some unknown reason our daughter is waking up at all hours of the night crying and calling for me. She's not sick. She's fine at all other times of the day. She could be teething, but we don't know. She could be having nightmares, but we don't know. It's so frustrating and so exhausting. I have seriously contemplated not going in to her and letting her cry it out when she does this, like I had to do early on (especially when it's the fourth time of the night at 3:30 AM or whatever awful hour) but it's so hard to hear her crying "Mommy, Mommy!" and not responding. Usually I go in, pick her up, reassure her, and she quiets down. We sit in the rocking chair for a few minutes and she either falls right back to sleep in my lap or she's wide awake, asking me for books, milk, going downstairs, and a whole litany of things she'd like. I always tell her no, it's nigh night time, and we just sit quietly for a few minutes. Finally she says, "Nigh night" and I put her back in bed. It never takes very long, but usually within twenty minutes or a half hour it happens again.
I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm the mother of a newborn again. Exhausted.
Ugh, that sounds exhausting. I don't know if it's the same thing, but I'm pretty sure Katy just started having bad dreams. It only happens once every few nights, but she wakes up screaming and when I ask her what's wrong, she says "Picachoo" which is what she calls these knights on a Dora video that she is really scared of. And then she pulled out her books and pointed to a picture of knights. So I asked if she had a bad dream about them and she said yes. Now she tells me, "bad dream" and she mentions it every time I put her in the crib. Poor baby. She's shaking like crazy when she wakes up. So I don't know if it's the same...but maybe this is the age when they start having bad dreams? I hope it passes soon.
ReplyDeleteThis is real strange... my daughter recently started waking up too... she would start crying reallly hard out of nowhere and yelling "Mommy!" and it was like she was still half asleep when I'd go in there, so I assumed she just had a bad dream... but it doesn't happen very often, and she goes back to sleep real quick after I go in there. Hmm...
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