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Title: Nightmares
Post by: sulek on February 18, 2006, 04:10:26 am

 My son is 2,5 years old and started to have nightmares almost every night.
He is not watching Tv or there is nothing different in our lives, all of a sudden he has started to wake up and cry, scream, kick and he wakes himself up at the end....

Please help if you have any info about this.

thanks so much
sule, Lucas 31 months old

Title: Re: Nightmares
Post by: jessica and emilys mummy on February 18, 2006, 21:41:04 pm

Hi Sula
I'm sorry I can't offer any help,only to say dd is having these now (she's 2)
The only thing I can do at the moment is to stroke her hair and shh her as soon I
hear the first terrible scream.
I'll keep an eye out for answers though

Keep smiling ;)

Title: Re: Nightmares
Post by: sulek on February 21, 2006, 03:13:51 am

nobody else is having this problem??????????

please keep me posted if you have any success to stop this night terrors...

thanks again
sule

Title: Re: Nightmares
Post by: mcruari on February 21, 2006, 08:23:49 am

My DD sometimes has nightmares too and I think it is just a phase they all go through and you just have to accept it. My DD doesn't have them every night though so the situation is slightly different. What I do when I put her to bed is to tell her that if she wakes up in the middle of the night she must not call out for mummy or daddy ;) ;) but should ask her "friends" (teddies, toys, etc. that are in her bed) to help her go back to sleep and to snuggle up to them for comfort. We haven't started on the bogey-man or ghosts/monsters yet so I can't help you there but I have read about a ghost/monster-buster which you can invent - like a special teddy who stays awake all night to get rid of them or a sign on the door saying "No ghosts/monsters/shadows allowed".

HTH

Sinead

Title: Re: Nightmares
Post by: sulek on February 21, 2006, 23:20:13 pm

Thank you so much Sinead... I love that teddy bear will keep him safe idea... I will put it on work starting tonight...

thank you so much :)
sule

Title: Re: Nightmares
Post by: beamama on February 22, 2006, 01:16:08 am

My ds had night terrors at about that age. It was kind of freaky because it seemed like he was awake, but he wasn't.
Often it made things worse to try to comfort him and he just had to ride it out. It lasted a couple of weeks. The doc and a book I read (can't remember which at the moment) said that it can be connected to sleep in general. He was not getting enough sleep at that time--had stopped napping, wasn't sleeping well at night, etc. It all got sorted out. I also kept a good sleep chart at the time and it helped. By changing bedtime we saw some improvement.
Good luck!
Bea