Do anyone else's DC's wake up screaming from every sleep/nap?

[suwoo]

DS is 17 months and will wake up from ever sleep crying, often screaming. He has never slept through and we co-sleep through necessity not choice. He still screams if he wakens in my arms! I have read the fussy baby by Dr Sears and it seems that he does not transition well between awake and asleep. He is also a very light sleeper and we have to turn the phone off etc when he is asleep. Anyone else's like this? and what do you suggest?
Thanks.

Just mine then?

DD used to wake up from naps and scream for about half an hour solidly. Nothing we could do would make any difference. Didn't happen with overnight sleeps though. She did grow out of it (though I can't remember when, sorry). It was very distressing.

Thanks Jackie, I wonder why it is?

Mine used to: I found that giving him a drink or even a snack as soon as he woke tended to help (don't know if his blood sugar dropped in his sleep or what) but he grew out of it by about 2.6 and had stopped regular daytimes naps before then. I know it's upsetting but it will pass.

In the night he always has a feed, he has 3 9oz bottles in the night still. Will try that from his nap though. Thanks Madamez.

I really don't know why it happens. madamez, if it was a blood sugar thing you'd think it would have happened overnight too then, though, and for us it didn't, though it sounds like it does for suwoo. It will pass, honest.

From daytime naps, yes, almost every time. After a nap he'll smack the milk away but won't really calm down until he has it - as soon as he starts to drink we're 'out of the woods'.

To get him to the point of him drinking we have to either watch the cars going past in the street and describe them in minute detail or give in and play on the CBeebies website. Can still take half an hour or so though. He's 18 months.

His daytime nap is the worst followed by his morning waking for the day. The night time wakings aren't true wakings, he just wants milk, but I am perpetuating these wakings by giving the milk. Ho Hum........

Your ds sounds just like my dd2 at that age. She was a nightmare with sleep and we just kind of got through it as best we could by placating her. She is now 12yo but is still pretty horrible first thing in the morning!

Thats what I'm doing, just going along with it and waiting for a breakthrough. He has slept in his own cot for 3 nights now, but I have had to go in 3 or 4 times each night. I can cope with that though- for now

Yes, DD1 was like this - I used to dread her having a nap as she always woke up screaming, completely unconsolable. We used to call it the 4 o'clock screamers, and all I could do was cuddle her and bf her until she quietened down but she would scream for anything up to an hour, horribly distressing. It was only in the afternoons, never at any other time, and she was a good sleeper at night, if she woke up at all she would just feed and go straight back to sleep. I think it's something they just have to grow out of - sorry. But you are not alone!

dd2 , 16 mo., who wakes up really happy in the mornings and is generally happy ,screams for 40 minutes after she wakes up from her afternoon nap!

Isn't it strange that it seems to be the daytime/afternoon naps that affects them the most. I wonder if its the type of sleep they're in and because its not a deep sleep like night time? who knows?

Yes and I have twins who do it now and oldest did it too. Think its the way they wake up. But they do grow out of it.