NIght Terrors and NIghtmares

Melissa - posted on 08/23/2010

Great links and information. We have had both night terrors and nightmares so we have learned the difference the hard way.

Kayla - posted on 08/16/2010

i have this problem with my oldest son! he has night mairs! he started getting them as soon as his dad quit seeing him! ahhhhhhhhhh! i worrie about it constantily!

Jessica - posted on 08/08/2010

this helped me out so much! both my children would do that when they were a little younger & my daughter still does it. its so scary!

Asper - posted on 08/05/2010

My three year old sleep walks and sometimes screams in her sleep. I just talk to her in a calming voice and tell her over and over again who I am tillshe wakesup then I talk with her till she calms back down enough to sleep.

Melissa - posted on 08/05/2010

My daughter used to suffer from night terrors. We found that something traumatic or a big change usually triggered them. We didn't really know what they were until a friend of ours whos daughter also suffered them identified it while visiting for the weekend. It made a huge difference on how we dealt with them and what a change! I guess my advice would be to pay attention to your kids if its not characteristic for them. In our case, a bad dayhome experience was triggering them. We removed our daughter from that situation and we've never looked back!

Lee - posted on 07/30/2010

Maybe you will also find this link useful:
http://parentingcenter.co.za/2009/01/23/...

Vanessa - posted on 07/29/2010

thanks alot for the sites they helped me alot now i understand!

Carine - posted on 07/28/2010

Wow great content! thank you so much!!!!

Nicole - posted on 07/24/2010

My 2 1/2 half yr old daughter wakes up at night screaming and crying! When it first started we thought she was having leg cramps, which she was and still does, and we would rub them. But over time it has esculated into nightmares and sometimes night terrors. One night it was so bad, and I didn't realize it was a night terror, and i picked her up and she started hitting me. It broke my heart. I hate seeing my daughter like this. She gets a nap during the day, but she is a very active lil girl. She goes and goes and goes. She is sleep deprived because of this, and she never wakes up in the mornings anymore in a good mood. It always seems to hit when she's been asleep for two, three, maybe four hours, and when she should be hitting that deep sleep (REM). We're going for a sleep study test next month, so I'm hoping they will let me know what I can do. It's the worste when a parent has to watch their child go through something and its uncontrollable and out of our hands. Hope you all get throught it also.

Robin - posted on 07/20/2010

I found these articles very helpful we just found out that my son has been having the nightterrors and we were so lost and confused. I was frustrated when my son had the first episode I thought he was having some sort of seizure and this went on for an hr I was then afraid to put him in his bed to go back to sleep because i didnt know what was going on.

Asma - posted on 06/30/2010

Your kids are adorable...Thxz Morgan 4 the links.. ....hope it will help me and my son....

Cristina - posted on 06/29/2010

I wish I would have had access to those sites when my sister was younger, she had night terrors for years almost week in a row, my mom couldn't help her and neither of us could handle her screaming every night, standing on her bed with eyes wide open yet asleep, my parents even thought that she was going crazy, took her to a therapist and nothing, later on she got a blessing and it seemed to make it worse, it started to get better when she left on a mission for almost two years, I do not really know if it was because of her belief that she got better or was it because she got older and could get a grip, I just know that families go through hell when it happens to a child in it, good luck to all you moms that have this near you.

Carmen - posted on 06/17/2010

I have always wondered about my son he wakes up screaming like hes hurt but hes fine once i give him a hug at night . my partner sleep talks and i usto sleep walk but havnt done that in 2 years.

Colleen - posted on 06/08/2010

Thank you so much for posting these. My son doesn't get them often, but when he does, my husband and I are still debating on what to do. We have gone in and cuddled with him so that he learns he is not alone and that there is nothing to be afraid of. Thank you for the support!!!

Morgan - posted on 06/05/2010

It wasn't me that needed help with the subject it was others were asking about them and what to do so I thought I'd post some links to articles about them. I was just trying to help out those moms that had questions. This wasn't a post asking for help it was a post that I was hoping would give some help and answers to parents. My oldest daughter had a few of them but she settled quickly just woke up screaming and we sat beside her till she settled so she wouldn't hurt herself.

Tracy - posted on 06/04/2010

my daugther started with the night terrors now - she also talks in her sleep and sleep walks - great combination now add in the terrors, poor girl

Keri - posted on 06/03/2010

wow those websites were really helpful.. i have a 20 month old son doing the same thing..

thanks

Danielle - posted on 05/31/2010

Night terrors are very difficult to handle. my husband and son both have them, so if daddy has one it could trigger my son into having one, but that has not happened yet. Night terrors are usaully generational thing, it oges back five generations on my husband side of the family. Usuallly what I do if my son has a night terror i let stephen take care of it because he understands more about these things than I do. I appreciate yuor interest in this subject Morgan, DOes your child have them?, if so contact me and i'll try and help stedan0706@msn.com