Baby dreaming??

[firstbub]

Hi there,

The last couple of nights I have noticed that my 4 month old daughter seems to cry in her sleep. It happens as she is going to sleep. I go into her and she has her eyes closed so do you think she is dreaming??

She had her immunisations last week and since then she has got upset a bit more. Last night I had her laying on the floor changing her nappy. She was happy and was laughing. We then got a visitor who came over to bub to say hello. Normally bub would love the attention but instead she started crying so hard. It took about half an hour to settle her.

Anyone else had any similar experiences??

[Evie76]

Yes. Daniel - who is now almost 8 months old has always done this.

I hear him on the monitor let out a big cry. I get out of bed and stumble down to his room to find he is sleeping fitfully.

Babies are also very fickle creatures. One day you can take them anywhere, the next day they don't want to leave the house.

I took Daniel to a restaurant a couple of mths ago and was very confident that it would go well as it wasn't our first restaurant visit. I took the pram in so he would have somewhere to sleep when he got tired. He screamed from go to wo. It was a work thing and my female boss was trying to help me to calm him (she has three kids and is a baby addict). Everyone was telling me that it was his teeth and did he have colic etc, etc............ none of which have bothered him previously.

We struggled through the whole dinner and by the end of it I was a mental mess. Finally all of the speeches and stuff were over and DH and I ticked off. AS SOON AS WE PUT HIM IN THE CAR HE STOPPED, SMILED AND DAD DAD DADDED ALL THE WAY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't heard him scream like that again. Not even at another restaurant.

They are just so unpredictable firstbub. I reckon don't even try to guess what their caper is - you'll do your head in.

[~Saram~]

Hi,

Both my kids have done this and I still don't know why? One dr actually diagnoised DS with night terrors it got that bad, he would scream for 30-40min in his sleep. Now he is 4.5yr old he often tells us about his dreams and they aren't nice. he has never watched a scary movie or heard a scary story in his life yet the other day he had a dream about a man who broke into our house locked mummy and daddy up and pout him in a wooden box and took him away. (made me cry to hear it)

DD also seems to have an irrational fear of the dark? from birth if she was out at night, in the car at night etc she would scream and nothing would calm her. Have no idea what is going on their but we now do a lot of driving with the internal light on :-)