night terrors?

MrsNJSwimmer · June 2011

Anyone go through this with their LO?

It started Friday night - he woke up several times in the morning (4-5-6-7am) before he woke up at 7:30. Thought it was just a bad night. Saturday night was much worse, as was Sunday. It was at least every hour if not more during the night. Noone was getting any sleep! We took him to the dr on Monday and she said it sounded like night terrors. He's physically perfect, so that was her best guess from our description of his "wakings".

Last night was much better - only 3 times, but gosh I hope this subsides soon!

MrsZiz · June 2011

What makes her think it's night terrors? I thought Bella had been having them right before G was born and then I did tons of research to discover that it wasn't the cause. I think she just sensed the change of the new baby coming and she was making big strides in her language. Is he awake when you go in? Does he seem aware? Are his eyes open and does he respond to you? If it's true night terrors they don't realize you are there and you aren't able to console them. With Bella we were almost always able to console her. It took about a month (sorry!!) but then suddenly she went back to sleeping a full 12 hours again! Just in time for baby G to get here and keep us up all night

MrsNJSwimmer · June 2011

haha, I'm glad it finally subsided though and she didn't cry and wake baby G up!

Well, he's not really awake when he does it (we bed-share) and he pushes us away and does weird sleep-walking kinds of things - tries to jump over us and out of bed, etc. It usually only lasts a minute or so each time (although sometimes it's longer, like 5-10 minutes, esp if we try to pick him up and console him) and then he falls back asleep, but it scares US! And then of course no one gets any sleep.

MrsNJSwimmer · June 2011

PS - I only dream of him sleeping 12 hours! I'm envious of all you mommies who get that much uninterrupted time!

HulaLove · June 2011

I have no experience with this yet. But I'm interested in hearing peoples responses.

Married2MrWright · June 2011

MrsNJSwimmer:

Well, he's not really awake when he does it (we bed-share) and he pushes us away and does weird sleep-walking kinds of things - tries to jump over us and out of bed, etc. It usually only lasts a minute or so each time (although sometimes it's longer, like 5-10 minutes, esp if we try to pick him up and console him) and then he falls back asleep, but it scares US! And then of course no one gets any sleep.

This sounds like night terrors to me. Libby had them a few months ago...for 2-3 nights in a row and then they were gone. They were scary though...she seemed possessed. I didn't know that I wasn't supposed to touch or move her during them. Only learned that after researching night-terrors online.

I never did figure out the cause, I did, however, move her bedtime routine up 30 minutes and that seemed to help.

MrsZiz · June 2011

MrsNJSwimmer:
PS - I only dream of him sleeping 12 hours! I'm envious of all you mommies who get that much uninterrupted time!

I should add that she woke up at LEAST 2 times a night and often 3 until she was done nursing. So that was until 13 months. At that point we transitioned her from co-sleeping to her crib and she started sleeping about 11-12 hours. I'm guessing G will do the same. He's up every 2 hours many nights! It's exhausting but it's worth it. We're co-sleeping most of the time with him too so I'm putting in my time of no sleep!

I agree that with your LO its night terrors, my pedi said that when they do have night terrors you should just observe them and NOT wake them.

mrs.winter · June 2011

Just my 2 cents but we went though something similar. It would come and go in phases....a week of him waking multiple times though out the night and he would not calm down unless I held him and took him into the living room. It would take at least an hour to get him back down.

I spoke to my Dr. and he agreed it sounded like night terrors....I was not convinced since he was aware of what was going on around him (or at least it seemed that way to me...I'm still not sure).

Then I realized that Ashton was getting in his molars and/or eye teeth around the same time.....As soon as those teeth poked though, the crying/multiple waking stopped.

Do you think it could be his 2 year molars? Ashton is getting his now. He will have all his teeth after these last 2 pop though.

MrsNJSwimmer · June 2011

mrs.winter:

Do you think it could be his 2 year molars? Ashton is getting his now. He will have all his teeth after these last 2 pop though.

His last 2 eye teeth came in a few weeks ago, so the only teeth he's missing are his 2nd molars. Possible. The doc looked and said you can't always tell with the molars b/c they don't show up like the other ones do where you can see them - where they look like they are coming forward - like the other teeth. So, def a possibility. We've been giving him motrin before bed, and I notice now that he's not waking until the 2nd half of the night.

mrspresley · July 2011

no experience with this. either way if it is night terrors or teething i hope he gets back to sleeping soon!

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