I was wondering if anybody has any advice to offer me on this!
My baby is 4.5mths and has been sleeping through for the last month. She now goes from 7pm-7.30pm but very often she cries in her sleep and I have no idea why. The crying is very confusing and can be upsetting for us as sometimes it is just grisles that she can soothe herself quickly and at other times she sounds truly distressed and wails.
I think this could have been going on for longer than we realised as its only since we moved her into her own room that we've realised she is asleep when she does this, prior to this we would automatically pick her up to feed or soothe her and inadvertently wake her up ourselves.
The strange thing is during the day she is such a happy baby, full of smiles and giggles and rarely getting upset. She seems to enjoy her bedtime routine and goes down to sleep with ease and as we have never let her cry in her cot we are hopeful that she considers it a pleasant place to be.
I did think it could be wind, although she has always been able to bring her wind up with ease but could she have problems with wind in the night that im not aware of?
I really dont know how best to help her, although we now think when she is having these episodes it is best to leave her to it (well, stand outside her room) as when we have tried to comfort her we appear to have escalated the situation and make her worse and it took an hour to settle her, where as by herself she calms anywhere between 5-10 minutes. But its so hard to leave her to do this and is this the right thing to do???
Is there anything I could be doing to stop her crying in her sleep? or dealing with it in a better way??