Waking up unhappy

[purpleme12]

My baby started nursery a month and a half ago. About a week later she started with a cold. She's still got a runny nose so must still have a cold. Also she's just recovered from diarhea and vomiting. I don't know if this is related. (I say she started nursery because I'm guessing she's picking all this stuff up from there). Since she was born she's always woken up happy with a smile and always spent half an hour talking to herself til she called for me to get her up. But now she wakes up with an urgent cry the minute she wakes and doesn't get happier til you've picked her up and taken her out the room and this is completely different to how she was. I guess it probably started when she became poorly or around then- I can't really pinpoint the day but it was a bit after she started nursery I think. Is it because she's been poorly? Has anyone else had this? Will she ever wake up how she used to again? I also think she does the urgent cry more at night when her dummy falls out too - it didn't used to be such an urgent type of cry.

So sorry you are worried. Perhaps she is still feeling under the weather from being unwell. How does she react when going into nursery? Does she smile and look interested in the other children? She hasn't been going to nursery for long. Is she attending part time? Do hope things settle down. I expect you have asked the nursery how she is during the day as they should give you a run down on her activities and raise any concerns.

She still has a cold because she's still got a runny nose. She cries when she's handed over at nursery but she reacts ok apart from that. She goes 2 days a week. They says she's happy all day.

It's just the waking up that gets me it's so different to how she used to. And I can't help thinking the cry in the night when her dummy's come out is more urgent too

How old is she? My dd started at nursery young, about 5 months. She has since then (she is now 2.6) gone through different behaviours at waking (crying, or chatting to herself). These have seemed more to do with developmental stage, than to do with nursery attendance or not. Don't know if that helps.

Does she got back to being happy when waking?

My baby's 1 in a week.

She has gone through spells of both. she's now 2.6, and still in her cot, so often, probably understandably, frustrated and shouty when she wakes in the morning. She mostly sleeps through the night, now, and fortunately has done for a while. She was always fairly furious at night wakings, as I recall.
I think they do get to a point, also, when they realise they can do stuff to control the world around them, so for example realise that angry shouting might make you come and play. Which seems reasonable to me (if not that ideal) - it's just them learning more about the world.

You know runny noses are especially miserable for babies. It interferes with their breathing and sleep which might possibly explain the urgent cry at night. Is her head raised in her cot by a pillow beneath the mattress or a firm one on top? Just thinking might help her airways.

Mmm I guess it could be the runny nose. No it's not raised. I'm not sure raising it would make a difference because she always rotates and changes position when sleeping so her head ends up somewhere completely different?