Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Night Terrors
First of all, Elijah got his 8th tooth. Wow! He'll finally have 4 on top and 4 on the bottom. What a big boy. Secondly, he has been signing "MORE" to us. What a big smartie pants. Thirdly, he's been going to town "RRRMM"ing at his favorite car, Lightning McQueen. What a big cutie. Not so cute? The waking up at 11pm, 1 am, 2 am, 5 am screaming at the top of his lungs, yet still asleep. AUGH! So from friends and online I find out it's night terrors...only nothing seems to say that it's more than once a night...every night. Mostly once every couple of nights. Apparently it's when you're stuck in REM sleep cycle and can be hereditary and caused by stress or lack of sleep. I don't really know what he could be stressing over (what does a 1 year old stress over?) and he gets either one 3-4 hr nap or two 1 1/2-2 hr naps depending on what time his first nap is and how long he sleeps for with that one and he was sleeping 10-12 hrs a night. Supposedly you're supposed to just let them cry and be sure they're safe and can't get hurt. Uh, how exactly can you do that when you're awakened in the dead of night by a earpiercing scream? Of course my first instinct is to run to him and cuddle him. How can you not? Only bad thing is he is asleep and not really responsive to the cuddling. I'm not really sure how this whole thing will work out. Anyone else have this with their kids? I'm just a little concerned because it's more than once a night. Poor baby! From what I read they don't remember it at all that has to be tiring. Sigh....
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I know this is a belated comment, but Elianna has had several night terros a night for months on end, starting when she was about 10 months old. We had to keep her in a crib until she was over 3 years old, since she would thrash around in her terror and fall off a bed. She also has a disorder where when she wakes up at night (as we all do, but we just reposition and go back to sleep without knowing it) she wakes up completely and can't fall back to sleep. This generally ends in more hysterics. The only advice we've been given is to avoid (as much as possible) helping her fall back to sleep so she can learn to self-comfort.
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