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Dealing w/ Night Terrors

AvaLikeLavaAvaLikeLava member
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G's had one or two instances in the past, but we've now had two consecutive night episodes of these. It's brutal. He's asleep, screaming.

How do you handle them? Do you try to wake the baby up? (and if so, how do you know they're awake?)

TIA!

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Re: Dealing w/ Night Terrors

  • kittylovekittylove member

    Ava, I pray that you aren't going to have these with G. I had them , and my newphew had them. The ONLY good advice I have ever found is from Dr Sears. You can read about it on his website but basicly night terrors tend to happen at about the same time each night. So you anticapate it happening and wake BEFORE the night terror. Do this for a week and then see if he continues to have them. Most of the time this clears them, it re-sets the biological clock.

    One year is actually "too young" for a dx of night terrors according to most Drs. (((insert me rolling my eyes))) But if you look at my sleep charts you can see might night terrors starting at about 13 months, with "real" night terrors happening every night by 18 months.

    Good luck sweetie!

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  • AvaLikeLavaAvaLikeLava member

    Wake him "before" the night terror? He's been doing this at 5:45 and 5:30 for the last two mornings.

    Oh man this will be brutal!

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  • kittylovekittylove member

    Night terrors tend to happen at the begining of the night not right before waking. A night terror is just his body over reacting to normal stimulus. The other thing you can try it to take away that stimulius but sometimes that is hard. For my nephew his pj's were causing the terrors.

    Ava, I might wait another day or two and see if they keep happening. If they do then I would wake him but at that time in the am it is going to be really hard to get him back to sleep.

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  • jsusannjsusann
    Griffin has them occasionally. In fact, he had one last night and it scared the bejesus out of us. We could not get him to wake up. He never opened his eyes at all and screamed bloody murder for about 10 minutes. I finally put him in his carseat and used a swinging motion to get him back to sleep. Thank God that worked. I remember the first time he had one, I posted about it b/c it was so scary. I hope they don't continue throughout his life and I hope your son stops his too. I need to start looking out for a certain stimulus too. I'm not what that could be right now. My friend had them her whole life just like Ariel did. Not fun. 
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