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Child Behavior (Expert Forum)
Waking up At nite...Again?
Answered by
Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D. - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Crisis Intervention
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
This forum is for questions and support regarding child behavior issues such: Child Discipline (behavior management), Normal Child Development, Parent-Child Communications, Social Development
Waking up At nite...Again?
by JeenMOm, May 30, 2001 12:00AM
I am the mother of a 7 months old who started sleeping through the nite at 10 weeks. Now all of a sudden he has started waking up at 3 in the morning screaming? I dont feed him when he wakes up at thid time I give him his pacifier, calm him down and put him back to sleep some times it happens a few times at nite. Now i don't now if it is his 2 new teeth, or if it is something else? I just need some help, please.
Doctor's Answer
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., May 30, 2001 12:00AM
, May 30, 2001 12:00AM
Teething discomfort can occasion such a reaction, but another possibility is the use of the pacifier. If the child is used to falling asleep with the pacifier, then wakes up and is unable to grasp it, such upset can occur. The best thing for young children is to fall asleep on their own without the use of anything that can be missed during the night when normal partial wakings can occur during the sleep cycle.
