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my son is 3/12 months old.he has lot of difficulty sleeping becoz he gets up every 5 min in fear.the minute he starts sleeping,his face goes thru a cotinuum of expressions,most of which shows extreme fear.then he starts brathing heavily and cries out loudly in sleep.when he cries,it is inconsolable.even when i try to calm him buy rocking him,hugging him,patting him,he does not get soothed.if he does and he goes back to sleep,the next second,this fear comes back.because of this neither he nor me have any sleep at all and hence he is sleepy and irritable all day.Also he wants to be rocked and lullabied to to go to sleep and i dont know how to get rid of this habit as I have to return to work.All suggestions welcome.Please help!!!! Surrinder replied. please play with the baby full day do not make teh baby sleep for full day and bathe the Baby with luke warm water after bathing teh Baby give milk as per the baby requirement normally 200 ML in the night put light music Lullabies before the baby goes to sleep for 30 minutes and rub the back of the baby to put to sleep hope this work well mostly it will work you have to try atleast 3 to 4 days continously mommy replied. I feel you should try to play with him a lot. My son (5 months old now) used to get scared in dark so we used to keep our lights on. Secondly we use to make scary sounds and then use to laughs. So now he understands that the scary sounds are just jokes. He used to start crying when anyone sneezed or cough. Now whenever we sneeze or cough we always make eye contact with him and laugh. hope this helps.
I also used to rock my son earlier but I know it takes lot of our time. As I am studying I have to go to college as well as study at home so I started give him pacifier from last few weeks and I no more have to rock him, he sleeps on his own. I know pacifier is not a god habbit but you have to priorities what is important.

good luck to you juthika replied. Dear priya,
hi! hope by now you must have tried uma\"; suggestion. well tell me the result.
My baby also wud do the same when he was 3. He wud get up scared and then wud not sleep at all. but when he was awake he wud be fine.
asked the doctor. he told me that babies dream a lot and that makes them uncomfortable. so he advised us to break his sleep..that is to wake him up and put him back to sleep by putting some good music, or showing him some bright colors or u playing with him. this requires patience.. may be 3/4 days but certainly it works. it worked for me. try it. uma replied. hi

Plz put a soft and light-weight pillow on his body so that he will feel that he is sleeping with you take care also pillow may not suffocate him.