Awake
Babies have certain cries for certain needs they want met. You really get to know their hungry cry, their tired cry and their pay attention to me cry. All of these you attend to their needs as usual and you get very good at knowing which is which.
Then there is the frantic 'respond immediately' cry, the one that makes your adrenalin rush when you hear it. Perhaps since I am only an Auntie/part time carer I over reacted... but M has a terrified/horrified/anguished/in pain cry that makes me run like mad to get to her. I think she may have nightmares...my mom thinks perhaps she misses her mom in the middle of the night... she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night hysterical. She is not a major crier usually. She is actually a very good natured 1 year old. But once in awhile she wakes with that cry... inconsolable for a long time. I made her a bottle (bad habit, but oh well) and after awhile she went back to bed with it, hopefully to sleep the rest of the night.
I hate that cry cause often there is nothing you can do other than hold/cuddle/walk in arms until she is able to calm down.
If I ever have kids, I hope they dont have colic, cause I think they do this cry a lot...it would make me insane and I would end up crying along with baby!
Then there is the frantic 'respond immediately' cry, the one that makes your adrenalin rush when you hear it. Perhaps since I am only an Auntie/part time carer I over reacted... but M has a terrified/horrified/anguished/in pain cry that makes me run like mad to get to her. I think she may have nightmares...my mom thinks perhaps she misses her mom in the middle of the night... she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night hysterical. She is not a major crier usually. She is actually a very good natured 1 year old. But once in awhile she wakes with that cry... inconsolable for a long time. I made her a bottle (bad habit, but oh well) and after awhile she went back to bed with it, hopefully to sleep the rest of the night.
I hate that cry cause often there is nothing you can do other than hold/cuddle/walk in arms until she is able to calm down.
If I ever have kids, I hope they dont have colic, cause I think they do this cry a lot...it would make me insane and I would end up crying along with baby!