What mood are your LOs in when they wake up in the morning and after naps?

[haggle-b]

Sorry, another sleep related question. LO is having a nap and Im doing a lot of thinking (my mind is in overdrive at the mo trying to make sense of LO sleeping problems!!). I read so many threads where mums talk of their babies / todlers babbling away to themself in their cots for a while after they wake up, but not my LO. He goes from sleeping to full on crying. I have a monitor downstairs and I hear nothing whilst he is asleep, I may hear him turn occasionally but its dead silent. Within seconds he is full on crying, no movement or talking before just silence to crying. Its not cos hes still tired, this happens after a full 12 hours sleep (touch wood we have a few more of them) or after a 2 1/2 hour nap. Hes fine when I go into him, but Id love to secretly listen to him talking to his toys, I hate that he wakes up seeming unhappy.

So, what mood are your LOs in when they wake up?

 

[xminimotox]

Hi there. My LO is usually always smiles and babbles in the ,ormimg or after his nap but there has been the odd occassion where he has woken up and starts crying and it is hard to try and settle him. Maybe he is just wanting reassurance that you are there and this is why he settles when you go in? xx

 

[chanel]

He cries if he wakes up hungry but otherwise he has a blether to himself when he wakes up and also when he goes down unless he is over tired when he goes down.

 

[Bexx]

Nine times out of ten Zachary will wake up full-on crying and just like your LO, he will go from asleep to wailing in half a second.

He likes to pull the duvet over himself and stick his head under the pillow so I wonder if he wakes up feeling a bit too stuffy. He's always been like this mind you, so perhaps not. He was a very poor sleeper until 13 months and always seems too active and distracted to do such a boring thing as sleep.

He co-slept with me for months and even woke up wailing then too, so I know it's not because he's wondering where mum is or suddenly wants to nurse.

Otherwise he's a very happy chappy, he just always seems to wake on the wrong side of the bed lol. Once he's out of there, he soon cheers up.

 

[OmarsMum]

Lazy. We co-sleep & most of the time he wakes up when we'r still in bed with him. As for naps, he wakes up calling us with his dummy still in his mouth, or he gets out of bed & comes to the living room with his dummy still in his mouth. He doesnt get fully awake immediately.

 

[Blah11]

amelie is fine in the morning but after a nap she cries for about 20 minutes For no reason either very odd!

 

[sparkle_1979]

Ruby goes to bed fine, chats away to her teddies but my god she wakes up FOUL!

 

[elly75]

Chris will either chat to his stuffed Mario in the morning or I'll hear him over the monitor shouting "Mama where are you?"

 

[Aunty E]

Imogen plays in her room in the morning, but is pure, screaming hell after her nap. Sigh.

 

[mrsraggle]

9/10 she wakes up happy morning and after a nap. Sometimes she can be a screamer though!

 

[lepaskilf]

Hi Haggle, how old is your LO?

My Tom went though a stage of crying when waking when he was around 9-15 months old.

But now at 2 yrs old, the first thing he says when he wakes up is "car" or "choo choo train"

 

[xJG30]

Tom is usually happy but on occasions, he takes after me and is a grump

 

[RachA]

My two are quite different, although one is 4 and the other nearly 2 so i would expect the 4yo to be better when he wake up.

In the morning my son will wake up, come into us and we'll send him back to his room to play for anything from 15min to 1hr 30min depending on what time we need to be out. After his afternoon nap he wakes up and brings himself back downstairs - generally he is quite happy.
Pre talking he would cry when he woke up until we went into him - we taught him to be content at playing by putting a stair gate across he door and we'd leave him in his room with toys. It didn't take long for him to accept this as the norm.

Daughter will cry after waking from both sleeps - she doesn't talk at the moment so she crys to let us know she's awake. I find it harder to teach her to play on her own in her room as once she starts crying she will wake DS us if we leave her too long.

ETA: IF DD wakes up and she hasn't had enough sleep she will be really grumpy - if its after her nap she can be grumpy for the whole time she is awake before going to bed at night

 

[angel2010]

9 out of 10 times, Carter wakes up smiling and happy from bed and nap. That 1 out of 10 though, he wakes and immediately cries.

 

[candyfloss]

9/10 he's happy when he wakes from both, even if I've had to wake him from his nap, he did used to wake up crying tho! My mum says I was always happy after sleep but my brother the exact opposite lol, he's still not gd when he first wakes and he's nearly 30!

 

[xxEMZxx]

Sometimes he wakes up full on screaming (more often than not after naps instead of the morning) but most the time he starts babbling to himself x

 

[craftymum]

He always wakes up really happy in the mornings and will chatter and sing away to his toys until he hears one of us on the move, then he'll start shouting "Hello", afternoon naps are a different story though (if he actually has one at all) he will wake up really grumpy and he is inconsolable for about 20 minutes! I think it's because he wakes up hungry though as a small snack usually helps.

 

[Jellybean2009]

My son wakes in a generally good mood if he's not woken up by the stupid neighbours, he talks to this toys or stands in his cot and shouts mummy or daddy until he can get someones attention lol

 

[mixedmama]

Ava is usually happy when she wakes up in the morning, she would sit in her cotbed and play with her stuffed rabbit. She's not so happy after her nap though.

 

[bbyno1]

Aliyah is generally very happy.
She now plays in her cot for about an hour each morning with her teddies