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December 2010 Moms
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Cathrine 24 from Norway - Mommy and Married
Nightmares
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Oh boy!
J is having really bad nightmares now - and I don't know how to handle them.
He wakes up and cries and shouts. When I go into his room we cuddle for 5 mins, untill he starts screaming about pain in his body (I offer him massage in that area (usually his feet and legs) and eventually painkillers - but he just screams and says no). Eventually I get scared and turn on the nightlight, where he panics. He starts shouting NO, NOOOOOOOO! and look in the air at "something" and looks at his paci's and shouts at them like they are toxic.
I then try to offer him a hug and he looks at me really scared and backs up against the wall. (at this point I am *THIS* close to call the emergency because he is shaking, burning hot and petrified). I have no idea what caused this. It started in August/September and comes ca. once per week (not the same weekdays).
I have been with J every single day from his birth, and the only time I am not with him is the days he is in DC.
What is this? It is not good for him, and it is killing me!
What caused this? How can I figure it out?
Sidenote: we live with my grandma, and she wants to help (I know she means good), but have different methods of helping than I do. She is all about redirecting when he is sad, where as I am more about finding out why to not have him sad again. ERGO - on top of being scared to death for a son that is petrified of me and everything in the room, I have her over my shoulders trying to get him quiet with promise of TV, teddy's and what not (at 11.pm), so I have to calm him down from his terrors AND tell him he cant watch TV. So I get slightly irritated (this is the understatement of the year) at her, and tells her to go away.
J is having really bad nightmares now - and I don't know how to handle them.
He wakes up and cries and shouts. When I go into his room we cuddle for 5 mins, untill he starts screaming about pain in his body (I offer him massage in that area (usually his feet and legs) and eventually painkillers - but he just screams and says no). Eventually I get scared and turn on the nightlight, where he panics. He starts shouting NO, NOOOOOOOO! and look in the air at "something" and looks at his paci's and shouts at them like they are toxic.
I then try to offer him a hug and he looks at me really scared and backs up against the wall. (at this point I am *THIS* close to call the emergency because he is shaking, burning hot and petrified). I have no idea what caused this. It started in August/September and comes ca. once per week (not the same weekdays).
I have been with J every single day from his birth, and the only time I am not with him is the days he is in DC.
What is this? It is not good for him, and it is killing me!
What caused this? How can I figure it out?
Sidenote: we live with my grandma, and she wants to help (I know she means good), but have different methods of helping than I do. She is all about redirecting when he is sad, where as I am more about finding out why to not have him sad again. ERGO - on top of being scared to death for a son that is petrified of me and everything in the room, I have her over my shoulders trying to get him quiet with promise of TV, teddy's and what not (at 11.pm), so I have to calm him down from his terrors AND tell him he cant watch TV. So I get slightly irritated (this is the understatement of the year) at her, and tells her to go away.
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Re: Nightmares
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.