We weighed Cooper the other night as he last check up was at 8 weeks and the next one isn't until 12 weeks. He's now 6.3 kgs. He's in Crawler nappies but mostly wears 000. I think some of his 00 may fit. I think Cooper will be tall as DH is 6'3". I'm a shorty though (5'4") – perhaps he may be in between?!

Now onto last night ... OMG! :eek:

As per usual I fed Cooper at 6.00 pm, gave him a bath and then fed him again on the other side. It was around 7.00 pm when I put him to bed.

Normally he doesn't make a peep and then occasionally there are nights where he grizzles a bit and sometimes I have to give him a top up feed or a pat. Anyway he grizzled so I went in and turned on his Ocean Wonders toy. He was quiet and fell asleep (I assumed) as we couldn't hear anything. I was talking to my mum on the phone and we both heard Cooper scream out (through the monitor as well!).

I went in and he was screaming in his cot so I was hurriedly saying to mum I had better go. I picked Cooper up and he just kept screaming. Every now and then he'd take a break for about 10 seconds and then scream again. He was doing a scream/cry which was so loud it was ear piercing and he kept choking on his scream. I couldn't settle him! He just kept going and Mark came rushing in.

This was very unusual for us as Cooper as NEVER done anything like this before. If he's crying (and normally it's just regular crying) he will settle as soon as we pick him up. This was different.

Mark was pulling the covers off his cot, checking if perhaps something had bitten him. Nothing there. We took his temperature - it was fine. He felt a little hot though so we tried taking his clothes off. We gave more cuddles. Mark tried. We walked around. Went into a different room etc.

I was practically in tears and was shaking. Cooper just kept screaming so loudly and as I said before, choking on his scream which is really scary.

We had no idea what to do! It was awful. I was thinking we were going to have to rush him to ER but he didn't have a temp. I ended up calling Mark's sister and she kept asking if we had tried this, and that etc. I said yes and that it wasn't working. Eventually he settled down as I was talking on the phone. Thank goodness!

He had been screaming non-stop for about 20 minutes. I nearly had a breakdown. I feel for people who have colicky babies and babies who just cry and cry. I've never experienced anything like it.

So I'm glad we didn't take him to ER - how embarrassing. They would have just said we were silly and that crying babies are normal. But this was definitely not normal - at least not for Cooper. Unless it's something he may do from now on?!

Maybe he woke up and got a fright or something?

Just thinking about it, even today, makes me feel upset. It was awful.

At least after all that he had a good sleep until about 4.00 am - 10 hours between feeds. And he's fine today - all smiles.

kmh – How strange about Charlotte having restless nights. Maybe she's having a growth spurt?

Fraser – I can't believe Charlie wears size 0 pants! OMG! I'm off to check out your website pics now.

Cassie – 800 grams in two weeks is great! Once Cooper put on 790 grams in 2 weeks. That has been his record. When we weighed him the other night (10 weeks) he had put on 500 grams in 2 weeks. So not as much but he's still a big boy. There are so many big boys in our group!