YES, YES, YES!! Definately!
It is the worst thing I have ever experienced with Maddison!
She was about 18 months old & one night started screaming hysterically & she was petrified of something.... I went racing into her room, as she had never woken up since 8 days old & it was a shock, I thought her arms & legs were being cut off she was that hysterical..
But she was standing in her cot jumping trying to cling onto me, screaming, but with a glazed over look... I tried to resettle her but it was truly impossible & she was not waking up , just out of conttrol...
I finally got her to relax a little & talked to her sang to her & she calmed down, but as soon as I put her near her cot all hell broke loose again... She was scratching me by climbing on to me, I turned the light on to see what was in her coit, but nothing! I had no idea what was going on, so let her sleep in bed with me...
I spoke to a friend who suggested calling MCHN... Whom immediately said around 2 yrs of age (give or take) they can have night terrors, from seing something on TV, or hearing a story & playing things through their mind/memory!!!
She suggested painstop to dope her out to get her back to sleeping again, which I couldnt do... So it took almost a week, of getting up & settling but eventuially it stopped...
She'd wake up & I'd go in & not pick her up but show her there wasnt anything scary & talk to her & let her know I was there & I popped a night light on in her room so she could see, but she wasnt awake as such, so i'd wait toil she slowly calmed down & would actually wake then I'd cuddle her & show her again & eventually she did resettle & go back to sleep & started waking & screaming less.. Within the week it was all over! I became aware of the news not being on or anything scary on TV during the day... Silly things that are not scary to us can be scary for them...
Absolutely - my 3 year old started with the night terrors around 18mths too, and was much the same as Maddison, screaming inconsolable etc. She still has them sometimes and i find that i actually have to wake her up fully to calm her down and then she drifts back off. Sometimes i have to stay in her room with her while she settles. During the day i would keep an eye on what she was doing so that when she has a nightmare i can usually recognise what she is associating with (ie something she watched or read etc) and can explain (as she got older) it is a dream, or pretend.
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