Hi there.
We've only yesterday been able to get to our house as we were severely affected by floods (yet again! Happend a few months ago just not quite as big).
Anyway, Last Sunday was when we hurried home from our weekend away and packed clothes quickly so we could get out in time. We got home Yesterday (Saturday).
We stayed at our IL's who were also severely affected in that the shed and alot of their property went underwater, but the house stayed dry thankfully. The small country towns we live 'near' were cut off from the larger towns.

Anyway, Sunday night DS slept like normal - All night not a peep.
Monday night he woke about 6-8 times screaming. We didn't know what was going on and he couldn't really offer an explination. Every night since he has woken screaming his lungs out. We ask him wat's wrong and sometimes he says he wants a biccie (which we say we will give him after he wakes in the morning and that he doesn't need one now), he also tells us sometimes he doesn't know what's wrong, last night hubs asked if the floods were scaring him and he said yes. I was talking to my Mum who's been in childcare for 15 odd years, and she thinks his night terrors may be a bit of trauma from all of the flooding. He has seen first hand how much water the area was inundated with as well as the things on the news. Mum thought it was too much of a coincidence for his sleeping issues to be totally unrelated.

I'm wondering who we should take him to see? I am going to call my MCHN first thing tomorrow, although I can't guarantee I'll get to see her for a few weeks (because of the very rural area that we live). Should I be taking him to the GP? I've no idea who to see.
Mum mentioned a little girl who lost her house in the bushfires last year, who seemed normal, but was suffering a bit of trauma and although to me flooding is not as bad (our house stayed dry and we didn't lose anything, we just couldn't get home for 8 days), it could possibly be just as traumatic for DS I suppose.
Has anyone dealt with anything like this before? He just seems so normal during the day, it's when he goes to his room into his bed in the dark on his own, that there are issues. It's VERY unlike him.


TIA