night terrors anyone?

Chatterbug6917 · May 2013

Anyone familiar with these? My son is showing sure signs and I feel helpless, any help would be appreciated.

namara5532 · May 2013

If it really concerns you, have you talked to your pediatrician about it? They may be able to diagnose it and help.

secretsout · May 2013

We went through what appeared to be a night terror phase. It hasn't happened for a while now, but the episodes used to really upset me. He wouldn't be consoled for anything and sometimes they would go on for an hour or longer.

I mentioned it to the pediatrician at our 15 month visit, and she said there was really nothing to be done about it. She said that trying to wake him was worse than letting it run its course, and that the only thing to do is to make sure he is safe and can't hurt himself if he is thrashing around but to otherwise just let the night terrors pass. She said it doesn't affect them nearly as much as it affects parents.

I didn't feel the need to make a special trip or call to the pediatrician over it because he seemed fine otherwise and no worse for wear after, but it might not hurt to mention it at the next appointment just to rule other things out if you are concerned there are other issues.

lilmejo · May 2013

Our son had surgery in December and was 16 months at the time, for 3 weeks afterwards we went through night terrors. We found what worked the best was, about a half hour before the terrors usually began would go in and wake him up, enough so that he opened his eyes and was semi-alert, I then rocked him for a min or so until he fell back asleep. We were told that this has something to do with interrupting his sleep before he fell into deep sleep which is when his usually occured. For us, his bed time is 8pm and his terrors usually occured around 11:30-midnight, some call it delta sleep when they occur. Anyway, we did this for 2 weeks and then they stopped. The theory is that you're interrupting their sleep pattern, therefore preventing them from happening. Not sure how scientific this is, but i worked for us. Since then we've had only 2 and we were able to calm him down. I know they're hard to witness and go through but try to be patient, they do eventually stop or grow out of them

Courtimilk · May 2013

With DD the majority of her night terrors go hand-in-hand with how much sugar (especially chocolate) she'd consumed in the later part of the day.

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