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Night terrors?

twojunebugstwojunebugs member
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HELP! My 15 month-old son (who is a normally great sleeper) is waking up in the middle of the night completely hysterical. Screaming, red-faced, inconsolable. Our worst night this week it took us THREE hours to console/rock him back to sleep. I know that's probably the wrong thing to do but letting him scream it out didn't seem right b/c he never does this, oh, and our first grader (who has a long day at school) is right next door. Needless to say my husband and I am at our wits end, and utterly exhausted. FYI he naps twice, for a total of roughly 2.5/3 hours a day. He "typically" sleeps 6pm to 6am. Could these be night terrors? I initially thought teething (he's cutting molars) but they wouldn't make him like this if he's not like this during the day. Help!
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  • john5111john5111 member
    Mine has been doing this the past week too at first it was because he had HFM but now hes over it and still doing it..not sure if he got used to the MOTN attention or if its his molars coming in... Ive been doing tylenol before bed and he goes to bed just fine but wakes up screaming...the first night I went and tried to calm him down but he would not lay down or go back to sleep so last night I just let him scream...and he eventually went back to sleep for the rest of the night. I felt awful but wasnt sure what else to do.  It was prob my fault for going in and picking up last week when he was sick but I just felt so bad for him.  I hope its just a phase and he gets back to normal. I am so tired!
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    3timemom said:

    I talked to the dr and there is really nothing you can do to prevent/fix them.

    Same here. Our pedi also said there's nothing that can be done about night terrors, unfortunately.

    Here's hoping all the LO's suffering them outgrow the night terrors soon.
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