Last night my ds1 had what I think was either a nightmare or a night terror or perhaps just forgot where he was ( we are on holidays) but he woke up screaming and we could not console him for nearly 30 mins.
I'm not sure if it was a night terror as we have never had anything like this happen. Being on holidays means he is obviously prob over tired, and in a new room etc, but he went to bed at about 915 and at about 1am he woke up screaming and kicking and couldn't not be consoled. I think it lasted about 10mins and he all of a sudden rolled over and went back to sleep. That to me sounds like a night terror, but it happened about about an hour later, but as we have him in with his 11mnth old son, I picked him up and took him into another room and it took about 40mins for him to eventually call down.
Reading now- prob shouldn't have done that, but at the time I had no idea what was going on.
Any advice or suggestions from those that have had confirmed night terrors if this is what it sounds like? Now he has had this, if it is a night terror should I expect more? Or maybe once we are back him and he is rested they should go?
It does sound like a night terror. DS had them from when he was about 1 to 5 or so. They eventually became less and less frequent, and shorter as well. Nothing would rouse him properly and he would just cry 'mum, mum!' even though I was right there. It does seem like the more you try to console them, the worse they get. A few times we managed to completely wake him up and then he could get back to a normal sleep, but it was rare (he has always been hard to wake), and I am not sure it is recommended either. Hopefully for you it is just from the loss of routine and he won't have them again.
Yes, sounds like a night terror to me. Unfortunately I never found anything that worked for my eldest when he had them. I just left him in his room and stroked his back while talking quietly. It seemed to make him settle a little bit quicker.
Hopefully it is just the change in routine and he won't have any more.
Thanks girls. We got home last night and he didn't have any issues all night. I'm hopin the big days and changed bed routine was wat triggered it. Fingers crossed!
Im glad he slept well at home.
My DD had night terrors, and we found it worked if we talked about happy things in a soft voice such as "tomorrow we will go to the park, and you can play on the swings. Ill push you really high, up into the sky. Then we can play in the nice warm sand and make a castle. We could have a picnic, with fresh strawberries, and some watermelon, and sit on the grass at the park" and so on.
It seemed to get through to her subconscious and she would settle down again.
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