How does your bub wake?

[Mrs AJC]

HELP!

Everytime DS, nearly 8mths, wakes from a sleep (day or night) I am greeted with distressed screams that get worse and worse until I pick him up - this is how he wakes up whether it was an hour sleep or a four hour sleep. This has happened all except three times that I can remember when I raced in after hearing what I thought was his 'I'm about to wake up and start screaming' noise (which if I catch early enough and pop his dummy back in will send him back off to sleep - sometimes) only to find him happily kicking around in his cot with the most beautiful smile saying 'hi mum, just wanted to let you know I am awake, all's good'.

How does your bub wake up? And how old is bub? Any ideas for me?

[tyler's mum]

tyler wakes up pretty happy, she every now and then gives a bit of a scream to let me know she is awake,

sorry i dont have much advice to give you, is maybe his room to dark:confused: i find if there isnt much light in tyler room thats when she wakes up screaming

hope it doesnt last much longer for you:fingerscrossed:

[Niki]

ds wakes up crying if he cant see me wen he wakes up which is most of the time

[Mrs AJC]

No, like I said he does this day or night. My mum had 5 kids and she even says that this isn't how babies should wake up (wasn't a rude comment, she's just stumped too), it should be like when he wakes up happy. Don't know what to do ... I'm starting to crack!:(

[~EmsMum~]

it depends, my DD just often wakes up quiet peacefully, but there have been some occasions where she will wake up Screaming (as if shes just had a nightmare)

[babylover111]

Babies all wake up in different ways in my opinion i look after 4 babies and one of them cries and gets louder and louder so i find myself running to her room when she wakes up, another one cries too but not as loudly more of a hello im awake! another one sits in bed talking to herself happily until i get her and then the last one a few little screams.
I personally dont think its anything to worry about!

[cheezelkat]

Liam always wakes up happy and only starts to cry if I don't come to him immediately. I think its partly because I "sense" when hes awake and generally get there in the right time frame.

[Elijahsmama]

I always leave DS until he cries as he likes to 'chatter' in his cot until he gets bored otherwise he gets upset when i go in and get him straight away, he sometimes even falls asleep again - this could be upto 1hr of chatting. There are sometimes when he'll cry immediately but i'ld say he's generly happy.
I also nanny for 20mth old twins and the litlle boy has always woken up screaming to be held straight away whereas the girl will quite often play in her cot and chat to herself for 1/2hr so each child is very different i think. But IMO most probaly wake up quite happy but there are alot that dont. So dont worry if you are

[dannii]

Indy is almost 8 months old as well and she varies each time. most of the time she wakes up happy enough, but them other times she does the same thing, wakes up crying before shes properly opened her eyes!
usually when she hasnt had a decent enough sleep.
i used to hang a toy on he side of the cot with my other kids and they would wake up and play forabit unil i came in to pick them up.

[Mrs AJC]

Thanks guys, it makes me feel a bit better that I'm not the only one. It's just that the crying is getting to me a bit of late. Hopefully he'll grow out of it. I just wish there was something I could do to make him happier.

[Pixie]

Eliza wakes up quietly and then she squeals sometimes it's like COME AND GET ME other times it's happiness either way I never know how long she has been awake lol

[Mrs AJC]

Ok so I got to thinking about what LuckyNiki said about her DS screaming when he wakes when he can't see her, and I thought I would try an experiment. So I printed up a 2 A4 sheets with 2 photos on each one each of me, DH, DS, and the dog (DS loves our dog). I pinned then on the wall above DS cot high enough (about my head height) that he doesn't have to struggle to see them. Now when I put him in his cot to sleep I point to the pics and say "Mummy, Daddy, Jamesy, Kaos" He cracks a huge grin and I can leave him to look at the pics. I have also started leaving some baby vilvaldi on low for background noise while he falls asleep and while he sleeps (this used to work when he was little). Well, over the last 2 days I have had a happy waking baby (give or take the odd winge when it takes me too long to go see him). I have actually been able to sit here and listen to him babble to himself until he calls out for me to come get him. I doesn't really work at night (obviously a bit dark for photos) but the music has made him a bit calmer at night too.

So now I am on a mission to find all my fav (well least hated) pictures of myself, DH, DS and dog and print them out in A4 size and stick on his wall around the cot.

Now all I need is to work out how to stop the dog barking at people when they walk past, but of course only after DS is 10min into his sleep.

[neeky]

lol well im glad u found a solution to one of your problems. perhaps u could look at getting one of those night lights that only comes on when theres movement?? maybe then he wont feel so alone in the dark. my son used to wake up screaming like that too, but now he's discovered how to stand up and bash the blinds into the window so we dont have that problem anymore, unless he is cold!

[Mrs AJC]

That's a good idea Neeky. DS has just started pulling himself up, so very proud of himself, can't say blinds bashing against the windows sounds much better, but as long as they aren't screaming (and no broken windows) we're happy:D

[SilverStarfish]

I always know when my DD has woken up. My dog will suddenly jump up, tear down the hall to her room and jump up onto the armchair next to her cot: "Look Mum! It's awake again!"

Or if I haven't been in the room with him, I'll have a cold wet nose poking me, then he'll run off to her room. And sure enough, there's my baby awake and looking around her cot :)

He did it the other day when he heard a baby crying on the tv. He was most confused when he got to the cot and she was still asleep... :confused: