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4 year old with night terrors
Hi all, i'm just wanting a bit of input with anyone's experiences with night terrors.
My 2nd daughter turned 4 a couple of weeks ago and during the last 6 mths or so has been having night terrors, getting more frequent recently, up to 8 per month, and sometimes 2 in the same night.
She is generally well behaved and there is no real tension in the house but she is often sick with tonsillitis and has temps over 38 quite frequently.
She wakes up screaming for mummy and when i get her out of bed she looks right into my eyes and says i want mummy, which is really quite terrifying for me as she doesn't seem to know who has her in their arms. She takes a while to settle down and then seems to come right out of it and is happy to go back to her own bed because she has no memory of any bad dreams or anything.
Does anyone know why some kids have them (my older daughter has never had one but often has bad dreams) or how to best deal with them while happening?
Shell
My 2nd daughter turned 4 a couple of weeks ago and during the last 6 mths or so has been having night terrors, getting more frequent recently, up to 8 per month, and sometimes 2 in the same night.
She is generally well behaved and there is no real tension in the house but she is often sick with tonsillitis and has temps over 38 quite frequently.
She wakes up screaming for mummy and when i get her out of bed she looks right into my eyes and says i want mummy, which is really quite terrifying for me as she doesn't seem to know who has her in their arms. She takes a while to settle down and then seems to come right out of it and is happy to go back to her own bed because she has no memory of any bad dreams or anything.
Does anyone know why some kids have them (my older daughter has never had one but often has bad dreams) or how to best deal with them while happening?
Shell
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She was having trouble sleeping through the night, then that problem stopped, she slept 12hrs on friday night and now BAM she wakes up every night screaming but its almost as though shes asleep-if you get what I mean. As you said its almost as though she doesnt know whos holding her.
Abby has had at least two bad dreams a night( although its only happened a few nights now) She is shattered bless her.
I do hope things settle for your daughter, I would be really interested if anyone has any suggestions or technices that may help sooth or settle my little one too.
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The difference between night terrors and nightmares is that usually they have no recollection of having any dreams or such.
This doesn't really help in the middle of an episode though.
Good luck to you too, Shell.
Abby may well be having night terrors too as she fine in the morning and goes to bed fine(at the moment!!)
Oh well we shall see how tonight goes won't we?
It was suggested by a mum at the school that I should go to the doc's to get something to relax and help her mind settle.............I'm not really happy with that suggestion as I don't agree with giving medication to my kids unless they are ill.
I'm hoping that its just one of those things that comes and goes as they grow, other than lack of sleep it doesn't really affect Abby-it's me that worries!!!!!
Hope tonight is a peaceful one for you
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He has always had trouble sleeping but more recently has been having really bad night terrors. It started he would wake in the night and sob for mum but it would take my sister up to 2 hours to calm him down then he would go off to sleep as if nothing had happened.
For 2 weeks solid every night without fail he was waking up and screaming at the top of his voice sobbing his heart out saying there was a man in the room. Of course the first few nights my sis was mortified and got her oh to check the house.
Brandon would shout things like hes there and he told me he was going to get me.
After about 12 days of this it then went to spiders being in the room and they were going to get him, he was absolutely terified but when my sis questioned him about it in the moning he didnt have a clue what she was talking about and absolutely no recollection of any of it, luckily!
He was shattered the whole time because these would last up to 2 hours before he actually went back to proper sleep.
The health visitor did say it was due to sleep deprivation?? its really strange because at the same sort of time he made up an imaginary friend named fred!!!!
He would sit in his room and talk to him, and if he ever did anything naughty he would always blame fred. The thing is he was convinced it was fred and some of the things he was doing were REALLY naughty.
Strange isnt it?
Within 3-4 weeks Brandon had gone from being a happy normal child to being an absolute nightmare with night terrors and a new friend named fred then back to a normal child again.
He has no problems at all now and my sister was just told to ignore them and his "friend" and its all blown over. Dont know if its the same for other kids this is just my experience with my gorgeous nephew
i have a little boy that turned 4 on the 6th an between the ages of 6months and 2 years he had them and they stopped at 2 years old and now they are commin back but he is under alot of stress from him not being able to be at home i am so worried about him
i just don't know what to tell my friend to do about it to help him
Our son has been struggling with night terrors for the past half year or so. In our case, it seemed to be caused by some underlying stress (his biological father has been completely out of the picture for 3 years and I just married his mother this spring).
Tonight he had another panic attack (he has recently started calling me Dad, resulting in some confusing feelings). When he woke up, he was talking semi-coherently (as is usually the case) and said he wanted chocolate.
So we gave him a little piece of dark chocolate. He ate it and came to.
It's a much nicer way to wake a child than ice on the feet or a spritz of water... so if you're facing a child gripped in a semi-conscious nighttime panic, try a little bit of dark chocolate. (But be sure it's too small to choke on!)
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Did you manage to solve this has been going on for 6m atleast now need dome advice please
My daughter would have night terrors all the time. She's now 6 years old and they are getting worse. She would basically have bad dreams all the time, I remember when she went through the stage about stinging nettles. She would not go anywhere near them, especially on our allotment and in the woods as they are very narrow areas. She once had a bad dream about stinging nettles when she was sleeping in our bed. She said a good dream with a purple sunset turned into a bad dream when she walked into her school playground and saw a pit with stinging nettles she had never seen before in real life. She told me the stinging nettle could talk and said in a woman's voice, I will sting and sting and sting around. The dream ended straight away and she immediately woke up and claimed she had a bad dream about stinging nettles and kept checking the bed for them. She has also said she has seen 'scary stuff' like content from baby toys she's scared of, scary noises, voices and songs. She sometimes tells me she can hear the voice of a person in her dream but cannot see the person while sitting on the stairs or in bed. If your child sees or hears a person in their room, then is most possibly a resident ghost or just a dream.