Re: 16-month old cries every night - why?

On Jul 21, 11:04=A0pm, Rosalie B. <gmbeas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I had more or less the same thing, although less severe. =A0Yours does
> sound like it is what I've heard of night terrors, but mine was
> because the man next door worked 2nd ****ft and that was the time he
> came home and put his car in the garage and shut the overhead door -
> we lived in a row house and the party wall wasn't all that soundproof.
>
> I got so I just brought her back to bed with me for the rest of the
> night and nursed her to sleep. =A0That was the only time I did anything
> close to co-sleeping. =A0We moved when she was 16 months.
>
> My mom had a problem with me waking and screaming when I was put to
> nap outside on my grandmother's ****ch (also not night terrors). =A0My
> mom eventually realized that there was a swallow's nest with babies in
> it near where I was napping. =A0I waked up and cried when the mother
> bird (or the father bird - either one) came back to the nest with food
> for the nestlings. =A0She should see the baby birds sticking their heads
> out of the nest with their beaks open. =A0She decided that the birds
> must be making a very high pitched noise that I could hear, but she
> could not.

Fascinating about the baby birds.

Also, good point in general that babies can hear sounds adults can't.

I think the big change has been that he's been getting lots of new
teeth.  But the regularity of his nightly wakings is what baffles me.
We'll definitely try disrupting his sleep cycle tonight, and seeing
what happens.