This is worse than when he was a baby!

[anna-bananas]

DS has gotten into the habit of waking every three hours to be rocked at night. It's driving me crazy! He wakes up between 11-12 & then again around 3 or 4 and sometimes around 5 or 6. All he wants is for someone to rock him. How do I get this to stop? He didn't used to do this. He used to go to bed at 8pm and sleep until 8am, never heard from him & suddenly he started waking up every 3 or 4 hours and screaming until someone comes to rock him.

[<3 Susan <3]

Is he going through a growth spurt? Or he could be about to hit a milestone or teething?

Sorry I dont know how old he is to give a appropriate response. LOL

[minx]

Is he going through a growth spurt? Or he could be about to hit a milestone or teething?

Sorry I dont know how old he is to give a appropriate response. LOL

This is pretty much what I was going to say too, but Susan beat me too it :lol:

I hope this sorts itself out soon :bless:

[anna-bananas]

He is 17 months old. It could be teething, but all the teeth that I thought it was from are in now...so I don't know?

[<3 Susan <3]

Does he have his molars??

Emmas up alot at night I have done ALOT of research lol

[*Leandra*]

Preston is 2 and he was having night terrors, I didn't have to rock him but had to pick him up and give him snuggles to get him to settle back down. How long has he been doing it?

[SassySami]

I would not rock him..or pick him up..

go in there rub his back dont talk to him and just rub his back.. he will fall back asleep

Talking to him is just going to get his mind going.. Rubbing his back peacefully will work wonders...

[Keren]

Zach went through this around 12-15 months and I just gave in bc I had a rocking chair in his room. Since moving I either let him cry it out or go in and rub his back but never pick him up and dont talk to him unless i say its night time and he needs to sleep, thats it. He would go back to sleep better if DF went in and told him to go back to sleep... maybe your DH could give it a try one night and see how that works out?! We just stumbled over that bc i was sleeping and DF was still up, so he went in, and Zach slept the rest of the night without waking, which he normally did. So now I ask DF to get up and go in, it takes him 2 minutes to get him back to sleep compared to the 10 minutes it takes me.

[<3 Susan <3]

Well, Anna I hope you can figure it out

[4BlueBlessings]

oh gosh... wish I had some suggestions.....

[anna-bananas]

He does the same thing with DH that he does with me. We have tried that. His molars have been coming in & they are through now, so I can't imagine that still being it, although it could have started it. He has been doing it for about a month now. It's wearing me out! If I try to let him cry it out, he doesn't settle down. I've tried going in there & just telling him to lay down and go back to sleep & then I leave & it makes him so MAD! He won't lay down for me to rub his back.

I guess it could be night terrors? What age does that usually start?

[anna-bananas]

Well, DS FINALLY slept good last night, I don't know what the occasion was & we didn't do anything different, but I didn't have to get up with him. That made my night much better!

[*Leandra*]

Preston started having night terrors right around a year and a half. Basically at that age they don't realize its a bad dream they are having, they are still trying at that age to decide what is real and what isn't. Every kid is going to have a different reaction but the important thing is you go in and let him know it is okay and he isn't alone. It really does pass but it can take awhile.

[Mommie2Bryce]

Oh Lord...Do I ever know how you feel. Bryce went through this for a couple of weeks and it sucked big time! I think Bryce's is teething, could that be it?

[anna-bananas]

Preston started having night terrors right around a year and a half. Basically at that age they don't realize its a bad dream they are having, they are still trying at that age to decide what is real and what isn't. Every kid is going to have a different reaction but the important thing is you go in and let him know it is okay and he isn't alone. It really does pass but it can take awhile.

Thank you. I didn't know night terrors could start at that young age. This could really be it. I had orginally thought it was teething, but he will sleep good for a couple of nights and then have a bad few nights...I would think teething it would be all the time. Plus, all the teeth are pretty much in.

[<3 Susan <3]

Oh Lord...Do I ever know how you feel. Bryce went through this for a couple of weeks and it sucked big time! I think Bryce's is teething, could that be it?

Babies go through a wakeful period around 4 months :)

Good luck! Emma is 7 mths and we are still going through this!!

[anna-bananas]

So last night he slept from 8pm to 8:30am...no wake ups. But the night before he was up every two hours! So that's why I'm not blaming the teeth anymore. Night terrors sound more of a possible culprit to me at this point.