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Severe nightmares

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MummaCait · 29/11/2017 00:35

My DD has just reached 10 months (yay) but I'm concerned. At 3/4 months of age, I stopped contact with her biological father due to a lot of issues. Since then, she has been suffering from severe nightmares. The only reason I know its nightmares is due to her pain inducing screams that last anywhete between 30 seconds to 5 minutes without her waking. And I physically can not wake her. She won't take a bottle so she isn't waking for a feed, and once she stops she'll sleep for 2/3 hours after until she wakes for a feed. Im concerned for her mental health as I feel my ex partner has caused her to have memories of that night of whatever had happened. They've severely gotten worse since... What do I do? Im so lost and I feel so sorry for her...

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Ttbb · 29/11/2017 00:37

You really need to take her to a doctor. You can't know that they are nightmares. There may actually be sonething physically wrong with her. At any rate this is very unusual.

MummaCait · 30/11/2017 19:05

I've already had her physically checked, shes 100% healthy, and she is perfectly happy until she falls asleep, and she just doesn't rest, she has bags under her eyes and she is clearly unhappy when dreaming

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