Screaming fits!

I had never heaqrd of self soothe thingy but I was taught my a paedistric nurse whn I had my first baby on how to look after him. I was in a strange country and I di not have any sister or mother or cousin to assist me. My MIL did nothing to help either. Anyway, I was taught to feed, change and burp and then put down to sleep. and this is what I did. However the second son at about 18 months did develop a temper and would whine and cry if things were not going his way. That seemed to go on for weeks. The twins have to be cuddled to sleep and this just amazed me but as they did not have their mother I do what the mother had done. So still, every night they are cuddled to sleep. The boy goes off to sleep straight away but the girl takes so long and then she wants to eat or drink. I find this very draining emotionally and it all takes a good hour or so to get her off to sleep. She has a scream that would pierce an ear drum. I cnanot stand it when she screams. I don't know the answer with your son. I remember one night when my first son was screaming and he was five weeks old. I would have gladly swopped him for his weight in potatoes that night.I was so exhausted and my husband only came to town on weekends as he was living on the farm. I was alone. I hope that someone comes up with a solution to help you.

I did not CIO we did sleep training from a very early age with my children and we never went through anything like this with any of them. However the other things that you are describing are possible signs of Sensory Processing disorder or even Autism. Have you considered having him evaluated by therapist. Or maybe this is your punishment for doing Cry it out. what a horrible thing for a loving mother to do to her children. Especially when they are that young. Oh wait I am not the one that judges others parenting decisions,and I am sure you do not want my advice anyway.

You have other kids so maybe this is just pointing out the obvious, but anytime my kids are crankier then normal or not wanting to go to bed via the usual routine i checked their mouthes.. Any teeth coming in ? Those back molars and eye (k9) teeth are the worst of them all.. my daughter is 14 months and she's having teeth problems right now and i am up and down allllll night. can't wait for teething to be done!

My daughter has never been easy to get to go to sleep at night. Ok, I take that back. She did go through a phase where she was easy to put to bed. She is pretty whiny sometimes about other things too. She throws a pretty awful temper tantrum from time to time. I wish I really knew and easier way. Half the time I end up laying down with her to get her to fall asleep.

My youngest did exactly the same thing for over a year. I would just simply ignore her. Expessially during the day hours. I have 2 older children that needed attention as well. I would just ignore her while she was throwing her fit and some days it would only last 20 minutes when she saw me paying attention to her brother and sister and other days it didnt bother her and she would scream for 3 hours. After about 14 months she finally outgrew it. I know it's not much help but just ignoring her is what worked for me. As for bedtime... I just let them cry it out and if they got out of bed I would just carry them right back to their room and put them in bed and walk away. I hope it does get better being it's not fun at all having to hear screaming over nothing at all.

Hello there Kat's, If I were in your position, which is years from now, I would either go to him or her while he/she has temper tantrums or screams like crazy, go directly to him endure all the pain he or she does to you like hitting you, throwing things, and everything else he will do, and just hug him or her, no matter what happens and just keep whispering "I love you" in his or her ears. I'm pretty sure this will calm him or her down quite well. Well, I'm not sure this works with a baby, but it works with my GF. About the thing at night, I would advise you to let him or her sleep with you at night, I believe maybe this baby just needs some attention. Let him or her sleep with you at night in the same bed preferably beside you and your husband, in between. Make sure you all share one blanket as to give a sense of warmth and protection to the baby. Okay, I did my best. I'm not sure this would work. Even if I am not a parent, I would be happy if you tried these out. Thank you for reading this if you did. Have a nice day! and Good luck with the kids! Congratulations as well to the newest 1 year old ++!!

Yeah I can imagine its not nice, only one of mine ever had tantrums and that is my now 7 year old, everyday at four o clock he would have one. It would last about half an hour and I would just let him get on with it until he stopped. Mine never had screaming fits when I put them to bed but they would not sleep, my daughter when she was 2 went through a stage of waking up at 11pm and would not go back to sleep until 2am sometimes 3am at night, that was hard especially when i had to get up with the boys at 7am to get them to school.

It's normally linked to behaviour from their peers ie. parents or older siblings. It's a phase, it'll pass if you don't succumb to it.

My little brother was like that, I remember. It was awful! My mom took him to the doctor and it turned out he was really sick! Maybe your child is sick, or maybe he is in need of some extra love and attention. Maybe if you rub his back or hum or something he will calm down!