Weirdest thing happened last night

It's very rare that Alex will wake up during the night and cry - she usually sleeps 12 straight hours, and if, by chance, she wakes up, she immediately stands up in her crib and cries out for me.

But, last night, at 9pm, I hear her crying "mommmmy mommy". I waited to see if it would stop, but for about 5 minutes she continued crying - but not real crying, whining, and I hear her crying softly, "mommy". I looked in the monitor, and she was still laying down in her crib

So, I walked into her room, and she's still laying down. I walk over to her crib and she's still whimpering and crying mommy, and when I look in, she's still asleep! Her eyes are closed, she's in a little ball, her little body is shaking and she's crying "mommy". I reach down, pick her up, and I guess I startled her out of her sleep, because she opened her eyes, jumped a little, wiped her eyes, and gave me the tightest little bear hug in the world.

My poor little monkey had her first official nightmare. DH and I were laughing later, because initially I thought, well, maybe she dreamt that she got lost from me or something, but in reality, we agreed, she was probably dreaming that a little friend took one of her toys or something like that

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Julia will have some dreams like that to, she will start calling me in her sleep, I feel so bad cause I don't want to wake her, so I just wisper in her ear that mommy is right here don't worry, so she usually rolls over and puts her arm around me. (we co-sleep).

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Re: Weirdest thing happened last night

My son keeps doing this too. It took us over and hour to wake him up from a deep sleep where he was hysterical crying. We think one of the rides at Disney scared him.

Glad she woke up quickly and went back to sleep. It is so sad to see them have nightmares.