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I asked the doctor about the screaming because she's gone through phases where that's the only way she would wake up. This last time at her four month appointment he said her thrush was worse and a couple of days after we started her new medicine, she stopped the screaming.

The first time he said it might be gas though and I think he was right about that too.

Maybe also he's just overly tired from the shots? I hate the screaming though so I sympathize.

@c.sassy: My guy is 6 months yesterday and the separation anxiety is bananas! He will only let others hold him for 5 minutes or so and he watches me the entire time. He will let DH hold him, but if I enter the room, he'll start whining until I take him. I am also exhausted by it. It's amazingly aggravating because I feel so guilty, but if I don't get a little me time here and there I go nuts! I had to leave him 3 times this week and every time I went to pick him up from my MIL (left for no more than 1 hour) I could hear him screaming from the driveway when I returned.

Mine doesn't have the same problem, but for the first 3 hours of his sleep he does cry on and off, some nights more than others. But he only cries for a minute or the cries are definitely in-his-sleep cries. Tonight one of the cries sounded like a he's-awake cry, so I started getting ready for bed (where he can hear me) and he stopped crying and he's been sleeping without crying ever since then (1.5 hours). No answers here.

Ahhhh...separation anxiety hit us the day LO turned 6 months and is exactly what c.sassy described. Bleh. Thankfully it didn't really affect my lo's sleep.

@pastemoo: does your LO fall asleep on his own? I think it may be a combination of everything mentioned above (separation anxiety, wonder week, travel) and maybe some sleep dependencies?

@pastemoo: i think our babies are twins because Owen is going through the exact same thing. For about two weeks he had been falling asleep on his own. I would feed him, change him, and put him in his crib where he'd play and fall asleep. Then all of a sudden he is just screaming whenever I leave him and when he does fall asleep, he wakes up an hour later screaming again.

Before we did the CIO method and it worked but now he just gets angrier and angrier. He's also been a lot fussier during the day so I don't know if it's because he's cranky because he's tired from the lack of sleep or if something else is really wrong. He just popped two teeth a few weeks ago so I don't think he's teething still and it's probably too early for new teeth. I need a baby translator!

@pastemoo: are things any better? Do you think he is overtired and an earlier bedtime might help?

Baby sleep cycles are 30-50 minutes. my LO still changes positions every 40 minutes or so at nighttime. I think after a year they become hour-long sleep cycles!