Does your baby talk or whine in thier sleep?

Kathryn - posted on 02/23/2010

my daughter is 3 and she talks in her sleep...she will just sit up on her bed and start talking then lay back down and is quite for awhile and then she will talk again...its part of the reason i have kept a baby monitor in her room...she hasn't ever sleptwalk...my mom talks in her sleep alot and i have been told from time to time i talk in mine too..

Melanie - posted on 02/23/2010

Though they aren't pleasant for any parent they are considered to be normal.

Amanda - posted on 02/23/2010

Amy Lea - Time for me to do some reading! Thanks!

Emma and Melanie - The though of night terrors bothers me, and lucky we haven't had any issues to that extent happen yet.

Melanie - posted on 02/23/2010

My daughter is 9 months old and had a night terror last night. It took me a good 10 minutes to really calm her down.

Emma - posted on 02/23/2010

My son giggles during his sleep, its so cute. When I've looked at him he's had the biggest smile across his face, those moments are so precious. But he does occasionally cry out as well. We went through a spell where he would cry every 30 minutes or so for a few hours and we just chalked it up to night terrors. But both my husband and I talk, laugh, yell in our sleeps so we are pretty noisy all day and all night.

Iridescent - posted on 02/23/2010

Yes, there is a genetic link. Wow, I just looked it up and it says it's usually outgrown by age 17 (I'm 29) and caused by an immature central nervous system. I'm immature! Lmao.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalkin...
"Several experts theorize that the development of sleepwalking in childhood is due to a delay in maturation. There are also high-voltage delta waves in somnambulists up to 17 years of age. This presence might suggest an immaturity in the central nervous system, also a possible cause of sleepwalking.[1] Sleepwalking is clustered in families, and the percentage of childhood sleepwalking increases to 45% if one parent was affected, and 60% if both parents were affected. However, there is no recorded preference to male or female individuals.[7] Thus, heritable factors appear to predispose an individual to develop sleepwalking, but expression of the trait may be also influenced by environmental factors.[16] Other precipitating factors to sleepwalking are those factors which increase the slow wave sleep stage.[17] These most commonly include sleep deprivation, fever, and excessive tiredness. The use of some neuroleptics or hypnotics can also cause sleepwalking to occur.[18]"

Amanda - posted on 02/23/2010

Amy Lea - Come to think of it I talked in my sleep when I was younger too ranging from age 8 to 16. Something genetic maybe?

Elizabeth - posted on 02/23/2010

My son will either cry a little while he sleeps or he will babble a little, but he will go back to sleep.

Amanda - posted on 02/23/2010

Keri Ann -I have thought about that too, is it really dreaming, is it some sort of reflex? More though if it's dreaming what could it be about them eating, sleeping and playing? Or about a past life? Maybe even a future that they've never even been exposed to? I'm going crazy wondering what is going on in her little head! LOL

Iridescent - posted on 02/23/2010

Sure do. My oldest walks and talks in his sleep. The second mostly talks, but occasionally walks. Our last 3 - one sleeps with an occasional giggle, one thrashes and fights and talks in his sleep, and one talks and moves around a lot in hers. The last 3 are all 2 and the older 2 didn't start sleepwalking until school age, so they may develop that later. I walk and talk in my sleep and my husband talks in his sleep.

Keri Ann - posted on 02/23/2010

YES! my son is just about 3 months old and has been, crying and smiling/laughing in his sleep for a while now. I have no idea why he does this, or what he could possibly be dreaming about.