nightmares?

HeavenBlessedMom · September 2014

I think this is what my daughter's experiencing. She's 22 mo,, so she can't verbalize it, but 2 wks ago she would be placed in her crib and she'd run to her pillow, now she needs someone to sit with her for 15 min at night and naptime to fall asleep. 2 out of last 3 nights, she woke during the night screaming bloody murder and we'd go hold her in her chair.
(We also have 5 mo old triplets in the next room, so I'd rather her not have to scream. ) what to do?

HeavenBlessedMom · September 2014

Here we go..DH now is with her on our bedroom couch bc he couldn't sit in her chair with her anymore. Ugg..

ashiscute · September 2014

Honestly it sounds like a pahse. Kids go through them all of the time. My DD is 3.5 and every couple of weeks she goes through a phase where she wakes up like 4 nights in a row crying. We go in to her and she really just needs a snuggle. I think she's having a bad dream but she can't tell us. She usually says something sill like her elbow hurts or her toes are cold. I think she just needs us for a few minutes and that's okay.

The nighttime thing well you are sort of letting her control this. I'd personally come up with an amount of time DH and I were okay sitting with her (10 mins) and set a timer. I'd tell her that when the timer goes off it's time for mommy or daddy to leave. And then do it. You can go in and check on her after that but I would not sit with my almost 2 yo to get them to go to sleep.

I really understand that you don't want her crying to wake up the triplets but obviously what you've done so far isn't working (based on the posts you've done) so you need to try something else. My LO's are 19 mos apart and they never wake each other up in the middle of the night with crying. They never have. They learn to sleep through each other. Good luck

blu-eyedwife · September 2014

My guy gets nightmares. Not every night, but he was verbal pretty early so we knew what was going on. He'd tell us he fell off the couch, which he obviously didn't do since he was in his bed. He also has nightmares about bears, dragons, pirates, airplanes - all sorts of things. When he wakes, one of us goes in with him and settles him back down for bed. As I said, it's not every night and it won't last forever.

RamaLamaDD · September 2014

Our LO does this every now and then. Usually after the 2nd trip into her room, if I am at least 90% sure she is fine and just needs / wants attention I will just shut her door and leave her. Usually stops after one or two nights of being left to cry it out. (She is actually to the point now that if I shut her door while she is still crying she almost always stops instantly.)

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