9m old screaming for hours in the night - please help!

[MrsMcJnr]

My DD of nearly 10m has never slept much day or night. I am implementing the ?No Cry Solution? and it does seem that she is learning to put herself back to sleep after coming into light sleep which is much better and we can generally get from 8pm-12/1am without her needing us. The last few nights though she has been waking at 2am and screaming until 5am. There doesn?t appear to be anything wrong with her (she does have a bit of a cold but it?s on the retreat) and bucks her back and won?t settle in any position in her cot or in my bed and whereas cuddling her used to be a comfort to her it doesn?t seem to be at the moment. Come the morning again she is her usual happy soul. I am at a loss as to what is going on. Any ideas? Please, please I am so sleep deprived and have mastitis on top of a cold at the mo

Hiya,

I think you'll find this thread useful...

Night Terrors

I've posted my recent experience with it on there and there are some other useful suggestions of things to try.

Hope you get the mastitis sorted - I had it eight times with DS1 - it can make you feel awful. You poor thing. Hope you're managing to cacth up on some sleep in the day.

oh i had this with dd, i never figured out what caused it.

don't think it was night terrors, it happened on and off between about 9 and 12 months. nothing worked apart from walking round the room, i would be up for a 3 hour stretch in the middle of the night once or twice a week.

it was definitely over by one as i dreaded going back to work (at 12 months), but it wasn't a problem by then.

with hindsight i wonder if it was teeth and in future will be a bit less reluctant to dose up with calpol before bed

Could be that she has got teeth coming through,
this was always how it was when DS1 had teeth coming through, particularly bad night screaming when nothing would placate him. I tried cuddling, bringing him in with me, controlled crying, and also tried Calpol

the only thing that seemed to make a difference was ibuprofen (the childrens one)

he was especially bad with the canine teeth and the molars and could scream for hours during the night.

for some reason it just seemed to affect him at night whereas during the day he was dribbly etc at night he was really different.

separation anxiety really kicks in at 9 months

this can manifest itself in all sorts of ways - often like the way you describe

also, she may be teething

get some of the ashton and parsons teething granules and some baby nurofen and dose her up to see if that helps

Thank you all MN helps you feel more human so quickly it could well be teeth, she has 10 already and has really suffered with those (but hasn't done this screaming before) I do give her calpol at bedtime at the mo for the cold and the teeth but might try ibrufen tonight to see if it makes a difference. I was aware of the seperation anxiety thing but she is still in our room and being beside me doesn't make any difference. Don't think it's night terrors, she's not afraid of anything just agitated but I will read the thread, thanks for the link. Thank you all!