I was just accidentally mean to whispercricket

[kiya]

Lately, KJ will occasionally wake up screaming, like she's shocked by awareness, and doesn't stop until she's sure she's awake. I suspect bad dreams or something.

She was snuggled up in my lap prior to the howling this go around, and I picked her up and comforted her as follows:

"It's okay, it's okay sweetie. It's just consciousness. It'll go away again eventually."

whispercricket was on the other couch trying to sleep because she's working on bronchitis or something. She laughed rather a bit, and it sounded painful, then rasped, "It's true...."

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[labrys6.livejournal.com]

Sounds like night terrors, as they call them when the child is older. My firstborn had these....even prenatal; at about 0100 the womb, he would suddenly thrash and kick violently for several minutes. After his birth, of course, it was accompanied by screaming that once resulted in the neighbors calling the cops,certain we were murdering him!

It has some biological source, but I am not up to date on the latest theory of what the solution is.

[kiya]

I was suspecting something of the sort, yeah. I don't think there's anything I can do other than make soothing noises, alas.

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much where I was stuck, too! Only much later did I think that maybe, since my baby was SO on time, that I might have derailed it by waking him up myself....before the event. And then letting him go back to sleep. I had planned to try that with the other kids, but they did not have this issue.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

That was my immediate thought, too; our oldest (now 26) had them, but none of the other three did.

[ivy]

[laughs] Best soothing ever.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Keep that sort of thing up and KJ is going to grow up to be the most interesting person *ever*.

She may even forgive you for that. (-;

[kiya]

I am pretty sure the things I say to her aren't half as ... interesting ... as some of the things artan_eter says to her.

Poor baby. Four parents, all wackos. ;)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Poor baby or lucky baby? I know which I choose. (-;

[ibnfirnas.livejournal.com]

You make my little apprentice-psychopomp heart smile.

[ailbhe]

*LAUGH*

That's excellent. Reminds me of "Try to be a little more abject, hm?"

[mindways]

-ger*SNORK*-

Ahem.

You speak great truth, you do. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*snort* I bet whispercricket thinks it was worth it, even so. :)

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

I find this hysterically funny.