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DD screamed for an hour at bedtime tonight.

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Then cried herself to sleep, woke up half an hour later and cried for another 20 minutes.  Sad  It was heartbreaking.  She was crying so hard she kept gagging.  If I tried to hold her, or tuck or in, or do anything, she would fly into a mini-rage.

She's always been a perfect sleeper, always.  And, suddenly, at 2.5 years, this? She had a similar incident a couple nights ago where she just woke up in the middle of the night shrieking.

H and I are baffled and at a loss.  Nightmares?  Scared of something?  She won't say.  She was begging me to sleep with her tonight, but H and agreed that it sets a bad precedent for getting her to sleep.  But OMG, she was pleading "Mama!  Sleep with me!  Do you want to?  Mama!"  while just sobbing her heart out.  I felt like the worst mother in the world.

We're getting her a nightlight - hopefully it might help?  I just don't know.

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  • PaigeC1981PaigeC1981

    Oh my, that does sound heartbreaking.  A nightlight will definitely help.  I have also found that my DS sleeps better when we leave his door open.  Oh, and a sound machine. 

    He has had moments like this, and we just bring him to bed with us and put him back in his crib when he goes to sleep.

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  • ShuTreeShuTree
    My almost 2.5 yr old is going through an insecure phase. he's scared of everything and always needs us by his side. We went to a mexican restaurant and there was a ceramic sun with a face hanging in our booth and he had to be held until we covered it up.  Anyway....he just went to bed 20 minutes ago!!!!!!!!!!!!  Two weeks ago he moved to the big boy bed.  Bed time was horrendous each night.  Last week he started sleeping and staying in bed - it was amazing!!!  Then a thunderstorm came on Friday night and changed everything.  Since he we're back to square 1 - won't stay in bed and wants us to stay by his side. If I even get up he's up and running for me.  It sucks.  Just wanted to say i know what your going thru. No tips - sorry.
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  • blueshirt2003blueshirt2003

    My LO has been waking recently (not every night) crying and just sobbing uncontrollably. He seems VERY out of it as well. If I held him he'd rear back and want out of my arms. If I sat him down so he could walk or sit on my bed he'd scream/cry even more.

    I was talking to our pedi last week and he said that it sounds like night terrors. 

    He recommended that when he's in that crying and not himself mode to not get him out of bed but to try to just pat him and help him calm himself down so that the can fall back asleep. 

    He said to think of night terrors as sleep walking. They can get scared easily if they come out of it and they aren't in the place they originally fell asleep at.

    GL! 

    ETA: My son doesn't call out for me/want me to sleep in his room. I just have the experience of him having night terrors. 

     

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  • lanie30lanie30 member

    Jo is going through something similar. THough not as screamy. Just crying. And its just awful.

    I tell her I will sit in her room for 2 songs (she has music in there) and she seems to be calmed by this. Now at the end of the 2 songs she says "ok go now mommy. Love you."

    Other nights she won't even want me there. But it is awful. A night light might help. As may a little more wind down time? Poor thing. :(

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