advice on resolving issue
Without more details about it, it is kinda hard to pinpoint what might be going on. But if you think it is night terrors and would like someone to talk to I am here for you. My 5 year old son has been having night terrors nightly for the last 2 1/2 years. And my now 9 year old went through the same exact thing. I have tried all the tricks and have lots to share with anyone who would like to know :)
Hi R.
My advise to you is that buy a night light and leave on (very low volume) a radio with instrumental music. That way whe the baby wajkes up it doesnt feel scare and alone.
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New in town San Antonio, Texas, married I have one 14 year old daughter.
My son has the same thing, although not nightly, a few times a week. Not sure I have an answer, but I go in and gently rub his back and talk softly to him and it stops after a few minutes. During real bad ones I pick him up and rub his back and he stops within a few minutes. He seems asleep during all this, and what I do seems to allow his twin brother who gets woken up, to roll over and go back to sleep when he sees me calming his brother - but he always checks to make sure I'm there first, otherwise he starts crying too. I too have heard these are night terrors and they will outgrow them over time.
Hi R.,
I know how you feel! My daughter went through this starting at 18 months. She would just wake up screaming and within 3 minutes, she was back to sleep. She did this about 3 times a week. Then she would go awhile with out them and start back up. I actually went to a baby shower and the mom to be was given a book for future use. So, I opened it up and read on night terrors and what they were. I have found that if my daughter doesn't take a nap during the day that she will get these. She likes to fight her naps :) She actually hasn't had on in awhile but yesterday she didn't take a nap at Daycare and sure enough...she woke up with one but hers don't last very long and she will go right back to sleep. The book even said that not having enough sleep can cause them and that they do start at 18 months but they will eventually grow out of them. The book also recommended waking them up 15-30 minutes before the episodes usually happen every night. Night terrors are routine and will happen around the same time every night. Our daughter would go to bed around 7 - 7:30 and would always wake up around 10 - 11. The book also said to just make sure they aren't harming themselves when they have the terror and to leave them be. They will go right back to sleep and not even know what just happened. I hope this helped you some and I hope they start to settle down soon. It's scary to watch them go through it. I know how it is.
With not much info to go on...we had a similar problem for a couple of weeks with our DD at that age. All it took was not closing her door at night. I think those little folk like a liitle light in there rooms. Perhaps a nightlight?
Good Luck,
Margaret :)
My Daughter is almost 2 and goes through the same thing. We have woken up to her screaming and she will be standing in the back far corner of the crib. Usually I will take her out and sit in the glider with her, sing her a song and she will be asleep again after 10 minutes or so of cuddling.
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Hi R.-
Is she actually waking up or does she seem to still be asleep and inconsolable when you enter the room? If so it sounds like night terrors. My now 20 month old went through a phase where he was having these nightly for a few weeks. I would go to his room and he would scream and push me away as if he didn't even know me. The pediatrician suggested either leaving him alone (peeking into the room just to make sure he was safe) but otherwise just leaving him. She said that during these terrors they are actually not awake and won't remember them in the morning. Going into the room and interfering actually can prolong the night terror. The other suggestion from her was to pre-empt the night terror by waking our son slightly about 30 minutes before his usual night terror. In our case he had them at about midnight so we were to go in and disrupt his sleep cycle at about 11:30. In our case the terrors passed so we never actually tried this last suggestion.
If she seems awake when you go in and she seems to remember having a bad dream, then it's not terrors and I agree that a night light or some other item that makes her feel more secure would probably help. I used a small water bottle with my oldest. I would tell him that it was "Monster Be Gone" and it would keep them away at night. I would just mist a little bit around his bed when he was ready to sleep.
Good luck,
K.
I know this sounds crazy but I had to do it for muy son and it worked.
We had to "reset" his sleep cycle to break the waking...we put him to bed as usual; AFTER he'd been ASLEEP for ONE hour we'd wake him up and read a book to him for 7 minutes. He'd try to lay dwn during that time but you have to keep them up for 7 minutes, then let them go back to sleep. Do this for 4-7 consecutive nights...you'll be shocked to see them start sleeping all night again! Hope this helps!
