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my ds occasionally wakes up in the night crying and upset, and is very hard to comfort . ( as opposed to other times when he wakes up, nurses, goes back to sleep)
sometimes it seems like night terrors: incolnsolable crying, refusal to nurse, doesnt want to be touched, seems angry, etc
othertimes it seems like night anxiety, like tonight... he wakes up fussing alot but not really crying, and says over and over: " my feet hurt!" or " my foot hurts"!
we never see anything wrong with his feet, and he never complains about this feet in the day. the only other time i have seen him do this is when he is stressed out and tired in his carseat and he wants out and cries alot....it seems he resorts to physical pain as a manifestation of anxiety???
i am not sure , just wanted to see of this sounded familiar to anyone.
ps he has night terrors the most when he has had a hard night for whatever reason...sometimes of me and DH argue in front of him, or else like tonight ---he didnt want to go to bed, and he cried alot before he went to sleep ( DH layed with him) ---he usually enjoys bedtime so i think he woke up tonight cuz of how stressful it was going to bed tonight...
sometimes it seems like night terrors: incolnsolable crying, refusal to nurse, doesnt want to be touched, seems angry, etc
othertimes it seems like night anxiety, like tonight... he wakes up fussing alot but not really crying, and says over and over: " my feet hurt!" or " my foot hurts"!
we never see anything wrong with his feet, and he never complains about this feet in the day. the only other time i have seen him do this is when he is stressed out and tired in his carseat and he wants out and cries alot....it seems he resorts to physical pain as a manifestation of anxiety???
i am not sure , just wanted to see of this sounded familiar to anyone.
ps he has night terrors the most when he has had a hard night for whatever reason...sometimes of me and DH argue in front of him, or else like tonight ---he didnt want to go to bed, and he cried alot before he went to sleep ( DH layed with him) ---he usually enjoys bedtime so i think he woke up tonight cuz of how stressful it was going to bed tonight...