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Experience with sleepwalking

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Does anyone have any experience with sleepwalking? Tonight I heard DS making all kinds of crazy noises over the monitor, so I went to check on him. He was "talking" up a storm, then started crawling all over his bed. He was sound asleep! 

 I woke DH up so he could see this for himself and he proceeded to tell me that he was a sleepwalker/talker until he was in the 4th grade. He said he would even try to get out of the house during the middle of the night at times. This is a bit scary to me because I really know nothing about it. DS is still too small to get out of his bed right now, but I know it won't be long before he can. I plan to talk to my MIL to see how she handled it, but I wanted to see if there was anyone here familiar with it. 

 Besides wandering the house in the middle of the night and possibly getting hurt, is there anything else l should be watching for? This is something I need to discuss with the pedi, right? Sorry for the long post, but like I said earlier, I really know nothing about it and want to be as prepared as possible . Thank you ! 

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Re: Experience with sleepwalking

  • tiffanyirenetiffanyirene member
    I was a really really bad sleep walker when I was little.  I wish I had some constructive advice for you but I think my parents just tried to keep an eye on me and I would always wander to the same place behind our house so if I wasn't in my bed I'm sure they would look there.  I phased out of that sort of sleep walking by the time I was like 5 or 6 but I still would sleep walk around the house and talk, I still talk. 
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  • VespahVespah member
    I was a sleep walker/talker myself and actually still am. I still have entire conversations (up to 20 minutes) with my husband in the middle of the night that I have no recollection of in the morning. I have woken up in some really strange places as well. Only advice I have if you have a sleep talker, is to try and steer the conversation so they realize they are sleeping (my husband always asks me to hand him something in my dream, once he's done playing along that is :P), once this happens I usually wake up enough to put myself back to bed. 
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  • LynsiBHMLynsiBHM

    My mom and older brother have both sleepwalked (sleptwalked? LOL) their entire lives. Neither has ever left the house or done anything dangerous, but it's a serious concern.  My son has night terrors, which is believed to be linked to sleepwalking. So this is something I may have to deal with too. Just taking it a day at a time now...

    Oddly enough, my mom and bro usually sleepwalk when they have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. It's like they don't wake up all the way. My mom has taken all the pictures off the wall in the hallway and sat on them (luckily not peed) and acted very angry when I asked her wtf she was doing. She has also gone to the bathroom, then gone back to sleep somewhere else- the guest room, the couch, etc. and then not remembered how she got there in the morning. My brother has been known to open a dresser drawer and pee in it, then go back to bed.  He's done it more than once Indifferent

    Hopefully your LO will only do silly things and not leave the house or do anything unsafe!!  GL!

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