Talk to me about night time separation anxiety

[thatdarncat]

My DD is 38 weeks and since she was 15 weeks has mostly been a good sleeper. However last night she screamed blue mutder and had to be to rocked to sleep, after becoming hysterical every time Ieft her room after comforting her. Today she was great, happy, playful, napped as normal, went down tonight in good spirits, and 15 mins later here we are again. I don't know what do. She isn't in pain, doesn't have a temperature, definitely isn't hungry and just stops when I pick her up. Will picking her up constantly start a bad habit that can't be broken? I don't know what to do. Lease help.

I have a similar problem. My DD is 10 months and she's waking through the night frequently. She goes down awake but drowsy and she's woken twice already tonight. She's really clingy in the day and cries when I leave the room.

Hope someone comes along to help us!

Hi umbrellasandladders

That sounds really tough. Mine is fond of wakening through the night too but thankfully settles quicker, almost immediately with her dummy. Ironically after her 90 minute screamathon last night she slept through til morning.

She's asleep now. Had to stand over her and place my hand on her back. Not ideal for a previous card-carrying self-settling baby but its better than rocking her to sleep, which I had to do last night in floods of tears (from us both), I also have an ongoing nerve problem in my neck which affects my left arm so holding for any length of time is hard.

My DD (12 months) does this from time to time every night this week. What currently works is picking her up once just to calm her down. I then put her back down with her dummy and basically lean right up to her and sshh her. I give her leg a rub and hold her hand too. This has worked for me so far and I just leave the room when she's fallen back asleep. I'm not getting complacent though as it can all go wrong! Good luck!