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Nightmares or night terrors? Any experience?

palma44palma44 member
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I'm not sure that this is even what is going on, but my 2 year old daughter has been waking up for a month or more now in a screaming hysterical state and the]n it takes a good amount of time to calm her down. She had been doing this every night in her own bed room, so we started letting her sleep with us, and that seemed to work great, no more waking up screaming, and then last night it happened twice while she was in our bed with us. She has also been generally very needy lately, and very upset when we leave her at daycare, which is a in home daycare my mother runs. She is in screaming tears everyday. Maybe all of this is separation anxiety? She has a doctors apt on Friday and I plan to talk to them about it but I wanted to see if anyone has had a similar experience, hoping its just a phase and will pass sooner than later.
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Re: Nightmares or night terrors? Any experience?

  • Chatterbug6917Chatterbug6917 member
    My son has night terrors when he get over tired. The only solution I have found so far is to try my hardest to keep him on a pretty strict sleeping schedule as well as the nights He does have them it's best to let them ride it out without intervening. It's hard to watch them suffer them but they end much quicker if you don't try and wake them.you could google night terrors and it give you some more pointers but those two are the main ones
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  • LSU628LSU628 member
    When my DD was having night terrors her cry sounded different. I can't even describe it, but it was more of a moan or an animal sound. She would look possessed. Her eyes would be open sometimes and she thrashed around while making the weird cry. Some time it would go on for at least 30 minutes. The pedi told us not to talk to her or hold her, just make sure when she was thrashing (she would get out of her bed) that she wasnt near anything that would hurt her. When she snapped out of it she wanted us to hold her, but not during her terror.
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  • rodiesmumrodiesmum member
    I agree with PPs. When they are overtired they get night terrors and generally a bad day at the daycare. My solution was similar to PPs. Have her sleep early and in a strict sleep sched at that. I aim for at least an 11-hr sleep -- my DD is almost four, since she also gets to nap for about 2.5 to 3 hrs at DC

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  • janinekrausejaninekrause member
    Both my children had/have night terrors. I know you aren't supposed to wake them, but I always have. More because the scream was so loud, that it would wake up the other one. I walked around with them, into a more lit room, gave them a drink etc and put them back to bed. It actually worked fine for us- it was too hard for me to hear them screaming (while sleeping) for a period of time.

    My now 5 year old stopped having them somewhere in her 3s. My 2 year old has them once in a while- usually when she is overtired. 
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  • JuanSJuanS member
    I think it depends on why they are having night terrors. If it's just overtiredness then by all means just leave her to it, but if you think it might be something worrying her then I'd wake her up and try to talk to her about it.

    My daughter had never had them until her mom died in March, and for about three weeks she had them nightly. Her grief counsellor told me to always talk to her after she had had them, and make sure she knows I'll always be here, and that she is safe. She hasn't really had them since.
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