6 month old crying whilst still asleep

[Shefliesonherownwings]

Hi all, DS2 is 6 months, has always slept pretty well and has had bouts of sleeping through the night. He no longer has any feed even if he wakes. Current bedtime routine is bath, bottle, rock to sleep then put down in cot in his own room.

Lately he has been stirring, rolling around and really crying all whilst still seeming to be asleep. It’s usually in the evening, tonight it was an hour after being put down. We’ve tried just leaving him for a brief period to see if he self settles but he ends up really crying so we go in, try to resettle but usually end up picking him up, rocking and then down again. But he seems asleep during the whole time. We can end up repeating the whole process several times before he finally settles down for the night.

He has a cough and has been teething so we’ve been giving OTC meds where necessary and he seems happy during the day. Naps pretty well too.

I’m wondering whether we need to do some form of sleep training where we put him in awake and help him self settle rather than feeding and rocking to sleep. Or could this be a teething thing? Anyone else experienced this? It seems so strange that he is really crying but asleep at the same time.

Yeah, he will need to learn to go to sleep in the cot instead of bring rocked. That's the central cause.

When he wakes, try going to him quickly but settling him in the cot. Hand on chest, bend into the cot so your face is vlise to his, ideally cheek to cheek. Do some long, steady shhhhhuuuuuusssshhhhh sounds. If stirring pat with hand. When settling kerp hand on chest but still, and stay physically close. Wait a good while for him to settle into a deep sleep, don't pull away too quick.

My brother told me that I once fell out of bed and cried a lot while i was still asleep. My Mum put me back in bed and i woke up the next morning with no memory of it. It never happened again, and neither did anything else similar. I have always been a normal sleeper and slept well as a baby.

I don't know what it's about but just thought you might like to know that it has definitely happened to others and that it wasn't a problem. I'm 48 now.

My little one went through the exact same phase around the same age- I remember wondering whether it was due to bad dreams but apparently not possible at that age!
she did grow out of it pretty quickly, I used to give her a cuddle and pop her back into bed asleep. Otherwise she would normally go to sleep independently so it wasn’t that she needed teaching it was more just upset and needing comfort