DS (nearly 10 months) cries and whinges every time he wakes from in the morning or from a nap?

[Twinklemegan]

He's been like this for a good couple of months. Why oh why doesn't he lie and chatter to himself for a while, or play, like the books say? In fact he's pretty whingy full stop at the moment.

He's also always ravenous for his bottle in the morning (at around 6am) and I'm worried I'll never be able to wean him off it. He's getting plenty to eat during the day.

Any ideas or experiences out there? Thanks.

Anyone? (I'm not having much luck tonight - isn't anyone talking to me? )

I have three and not one of them has ever woken up from a nap/sleep and been lying there chatting to themselves. Not one. I'm sure it does happen, but not in my experience.

Don't fret about the bottle, he'll do without it one day I'm sure.

Thank you! I thought it was something we were doing/not doing.

DS was a chatterer and cooer but dd is always grumpy in mornings and needing milk.She is nearly 18 months now....

Can't help but much sympathy.Lighter mornings mean that sheis waking and grizzling at 5.30 am.Oh joy

DS NEVEr did that "chatting in the cot" thing until he was about..ooohhh...2 (by which time he was moving into a bed)

It is wearing always being woken up by crying, but it does stop eventually

What about making it a cup rather than bottle?

Thanks people. FK - yes we're definitely thinking about that because I want him off bottles by the time he's one. But he's so rubbish at taking his formula milk from a beaker - he'll drink water fine though.

ds also never chated in the cot until he was over 2 years old. He always always cried when he woke up and also cried (90% of the time) when he want to sleep too. He obviously was not good with the transition state

He does chat a bit on waking up and occasionally before going to sleep now though not for long.

my ds - also 10 mo - chatters first thing, but after all other naps he's in a foul mood! i think this is pretty normal. i guess they take a while to learn to "wake up" properly!

So glad to see this thread - mine does this too! my 9month old ds always wakes up grizzling. I must confess that i have been worried about it. Even when i go to his room there are no gummy grins and smiles. He is fine once I have picked him up but he always wakes and cries . I was wondering whether it was because i had done cc and he genuinely does fret that I am not coming to him iyswim but he does it even when he wakes from a sleep in his buggy or the car seat and tehre is no association wtih cc there. Just their way I guess

Gosh, I just found these new posts by accident. Thanks everyone. Actually there's good news re Twinklebub - the last few mornings he has been a lot happier and has chatted for a good 15 mins before whinging. AND he's been waking later, AND he's been having his solid breakfast before his milk.

So there's hope for us all yet perhaps.

Mine went through a stage of howling after naps and waking in the morning with shrieks of anquish. He's 2.8 now and still does it occaisionally. It's not anything you're doing, honest.

Mind you I have always woken up with extreme prejudice, so maybe it's a family thing.

my THREE year old still wakes up crying - sorry!!
(Oh, and my 15 mth old has always chatted happily to the wall, or the cot bars, or something...)

Ah. Solid breakfast before milk - how did you manage this? My DS is just about to start nursery and I have been trying to wean him off milk first thing and on to a solid breakfast. With absolutely no luck at all. Any suggestions gratefully received. Many thanks.

Kate - it just happened tbh. One morning he slept in til 7 and woke up happy. So we tried his cereal first and he wolfed it down. We haven't looked back.

we went through a stage with DS1 where he would wake up every morning screaming. His head off. It completely did our heads in especially DH, who was like "WTF? We haven't even done anything to piss him off yet!" It was an extremely low way to start the day. Then he stopped doing it. Replaced it with bashing his feet against the end of his cot IIRC, which was an equally rude awakeneing but different at least. Nothing like variety eh? Bless em........