Toddler Night Terrors - Yuma,AZ

My daughter was about the same age when she began having night terrors. With her I alway went in and tried to comfort her. Most of the time she would push me away while continuing to scream. I always just stayed in her room till it ended and she'd fall back to sleep. Your not supposed to try to wake them. From what I remember reading it not uncommon for them to be up to 30 min long. I hating not being able to help her. What did help was to not let her get overtired by bedtime. They always seem to happen when we had a really busy or active day.
Good Luck!
Jen

My 2 yr old has night terrors and I just let his scream in his bed I am there to make sure he doesnt hurt himself and after about 1/2 hr he stopps and wants me to hold him, sometimes he will scream and jump and move into the hallway I just have to sit there and wait. I noticed that if I would try to hold him or wake him up he would hurt me and I also noticed it mostly happens almost everytime when he is really tired and we have had a busy day and no nap. I think my sons has these only when he is in a really deep sleep. My other two went through the same.. Good Luck!

Whenever my boys would have night terrors, I would take them into my arms, talk/sing to them. I prayed with them. It didn't seem to hurt them at all. What really helped was that I really started to limit what they watched on TV, especially the commericials. They had least night terrors after that.

I to have this issue w/my 4 1/2 yr old but he usually wakes up and is crying. I've allowed him to climb into my bed and from there the terrors stop and he falls back to sleep and is comforted. I believe it can be a combination of the TV shows, the environment, etc. I have a inconsistant relationship w/his dad and believe this can be part of the environment issue; not sure...I agree with the other moms tho; if I limit his TV he seems better and @ times I would just go in his room and pat his back and softly whisper all is ok. There are times I'm not able to do this @ all and just wait as the other mom's do. But even when I've gone onto the babycenter.com, there weren't many answers other than the TV, and not waking them up. Don't feel your alone. I'm hopeful your daughter will will grow out of this and pray about that specifically and claim it daily. God Bless.