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Nightmares/Terrors

BemyselfandiBemyselfandi member
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Does anyone have experience with their child having night terrors or nightmares? What do you do? Anything? Everything I've read says there's nothing you can do, they don't remember in the morning. It's killing his sleep. He'll wake up a bunch of times a night and not be able to fall back asleep. He used to be able to fall asleep after a while on a mat next to my bed if he refused to go back to bed. He seemed better for a while so I put the mat away. Then it went downhill again and now he won't even sleep on the mat. He'll just sit and scream next to our bed. It's horrible. I wish I could stop the nightmares in the first place so he wouldn't even wake up! Advice, please!!!
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Re: Nightmares/Terrors

  • frecks2112frecks2112 member
    I don't have any experience here but when I was doing a bunch of research on sleep problems (my LO has never been a good sleeper) I saw that sometimes night terrors can be a symptom of the little one not getting enough sleep. Do you think you could try to get him down a 1/2 hour earlier, or perhaps even an hour? Does s/he still nap
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  • groovygrlgroovygrl member

    My daughter has experienced night terrors since before 2 yrs old and now as an almost 3 1/2 yr old has nightmares. Interestingly I have always had very vivid dreams &many memories of nightmares growing up.

    When it was the night terror situation- starting to scream and unable to calm, not really 'awake', etc, at our house it typically happened around 1030/1100 pm which is consistent w/ some of what I've read regarding transitions of sleep cycles and it definitely happened more when she was overtired & having problems. One thing that worked back then was gently rousing her shortly before the time they'd occur b/c it alters the sleep cycles and of course trying to avoid the overtired. We were very into the early bedtime until maybe 2 1/2 when they started resisting it more.

    Now that she has nightmares where she can actually tell me it was a bad dream and even on occasion what happened in it, I just talk her down by saying I'm there, it was just a dream, etc etc. Not much more to do I don't think...

    GL!

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  • LSU628LSU628 member
    DD had night terrors that peaked around 2yrs. The pedi told us not to touch her, try to wake her, and just make sure she couldn't hurt herself. It was heart breaking to watch as she would thrash, scream, make ungodly noises- she literally looked possessed. The pedi has us try giving her a tsp of Benadryl before bedtime to try to get her into a deeper sleep, but honestly I didn't see any improvement so we stopped. Now when she has bad dreams she is able to identify that she had them and can tell me what they were about, but it doesn't stop them from happening. I find they get a lot worse when she is sick or on the verge of being sick.
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