so the tinyness isn't great at falling asleep- but we manage and feel ok with the situation, but there is something that is weird. when she wakes up about 90% of the time she is instantly hollering. anyone else have a kid do this?

Well, we had some other interesting issues with Little B - a precursor of sorts to sleepwalking, which luckily for us he has outgrown. He would wake up screaming, but wouldn't actually be awake even though he was talking to us.

As usual, we treated him through nutritional means...but I don't know if that would help the tinyness.

what do you mean nutritional means?

we are pretty good about nap/bedtime routine- she just usually wakes up freaked out. she sleeps in the same place, we always come get her, she has her lovey- but rarely does she wake up happy.

I think some kids are just like that. My brother would always woke up in a rage. My mother said he wasn't good at transitions. I would wake up and play happily in my crib until someone came to get me.

Himself will wake up and just lie there until I go in. If he is really hungry, he will yell a couple of times, but other than that, he is pretty calm. So I have nothing helpful to add. Sorry!

pocket - we started supplementing him with a bit of flax seed oil. We asked our ped and our naturopath about it, and were informed that tons of kids have secondary sleep issues because their central nervous system is going through such rapid development.

The flax seed oil was to help the CNS development along. I can only provide anecdotal testimony that it worked after we'd used it for a few weeks.

The Button used to wake up scared of turtles. Happily, she has been successfully inculcated to believe that the turtles are her friends now.

Is the tinyness able to articulate why she wakes up a-shoutin'?

My guess is that this is a stage which will have to be endured. Does she have a nightlight? (that's me projecting my ongoing fear of the dark onto the tinyness). Or does she do that even in the morning?

Sometimes when Smudge takes an extra long nap he wakes up ragingly hungry and is crazy until we get a cracker down or something.

Baby T-Rex wakes up screaming like he had a bad dream. It was worst 14-16 months, now (18 months) more rare. He's not talking, so I don't know what was/is up.

It's weird, as he gets older, to see him have moods -- like he'll seem grumpy one day, and sunny the next.

Max had night terrors. He's wake up screaming but he wouldn't really be awake so there was no consoling him.

Sailor or myself would take him from his darkish room to the bathroom and turn on the light. The suddenly bright room would often wake him up and he'd settle down.

So is Tinyness still asleep or is she like Tommy'sMommy said, just bad with that transistion.

it's hard to tell, sometimes if i pick her up she falls asleep again, sometimes she just grumps some more and wakes up. i think it might be the transition as she does this even in the middle of the day waking up from her nap. ironically she woke up from her nap, after i posted this, happy as a clam. also she pretty much has always done this.

The Bean does this a few times a week. Wakes up crying, shaking...takes a while to calm him down. The only thing I can think of is that it's bad dreams, but he's unable to understand or articulate that.

Atticus still does this until he gets his snuggle from mama in the morning.