https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:42:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-terrors-1#post-173440 Wed, 30 May 2012 11:53:32 +0000 sandy 173440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My heart hurts just reading about what happened...especially bc Wagon Jr looks like such a cheerful/happy guy. I have a no re-entry policy too and 99% of the time LO falls back asleep within minutes...but these night terrors sound horrifying. I have no advice since I haven't gone through this but I really really hope it is a phase that will end soon or maybe your pediatrician will have some good advice. Keep us all posted and I'll be praying Wagon Jr gets some sweet dreams tonight! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-terrors-1#post-173280 Wed, 30 May 2012 10:33:17 +0000 BoogieBea 173280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: My son is actually the super active sleeper so between him kicking me in the face/ribs/whatever and me getting up to see if he's at the edge of the bed every time he tosses and turns, it makes my sleep very tiresome when he's in bed with us. He doesn't wake every night so we're still trying to figure out what causes him to wake. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-terrors-1#post-173083 Wed, 30 May 2012 09:03:48 +0000 mrs. wagon 173083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: hehe luckily for me Wagon Jr. has not cried for Mommy. I think I would just immediately run in there if he did!!! He just screams. </p> <p>@BoogieBea: glad to hear I'm not alone!!!</p> <p>I'm not super hyper anti-cosleeping, but we have friends who literally had all 4 of their kids in bed with them at one point. They eventually put small beds in each corner of the master bedroom and I think the kids are in their own rooms now, but it sounded like quite the ordeal to get them out of their bed. Wagon Sr. is a super active sleeper and I'm a crazy light sleeper, so for the safety of my kids AND my own sanity we just can't cosleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-terrors-1#post-173068 Wed, 30 May 2012 08:56:52 +0000 BoogieBea 173068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO is the same way. Ever since we sleep trained him at 6.5 months, we had a blissful nearly 2 years of perfect sleep out of him. He had the occasional wakings but those night were rare. Then, just a few months ago, he started having more night wakings. He would cry and cry. We used to let him cry it out like you did but that didn't work anymore. He just got louder and louder. By now, our daughter was already here and I don't want him to disturb her so now we co-sleep the rest of the night when he wakes. He used to play around and get himself too stimulated in our bed. But now, he just goes right back to sleep which is why we bring him into our bed now (I know it's a bad habit since we don't want to encourage co-sleeping but it's just the path of less resistence right now).<br /> I guess, in short, I don't really have any answers and we are trying to seek a solution for this as well.<br /> My son does suffer from night terrors as well. He gets them usually when he's sick. It is much much scarier than normal night wakings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-terrors-1#post-173064 Wed, 30 May 2012 08:55:44 +0000 chopsuey 173064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Night terrors are so sad!! Glad you went in to comfort him. :( I'm a sucker when it comes to Lo crying in the middle of the night. Especially when she starts yelling ummaaaa!!!!!<br /> Dh says she's going to want to cosleep with me until she's 7 :P haha whateves </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-terrors-1#post-173029 Wed, 30 May 2012 08:22:27 +0000 mrs. wagon 173029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wagon Jr. has been sleep trained and been sleeping through the night since 4 months old. However, he has always consistently woken during the night once or twice, sometimes three or four times each night crying. 99% of the time, he'll stop crying within 60 seconds and be back asleep within 5 minutes. We have a very strict "don't go in there no matter what" policy, even to the point where one night he had vomited but fallen peacefully back asleep immediately, and instead of going in, waking him, cleaning him up and changing the sheets and putting him back down, I let him sleep all the way thru til the morning. (Waiting for CPS to break down the door and take my child away for letting him sleep with vomit in his hair.) (That was a really tough decision, but I realized that if I didn't have a video monitor, I would never have known he threw up.)</p> <p>Anyway! From time to time these night cries will get really terrifying. Last night around 11:30pm he woke up with a start and was immediately on his feet, launching himself over the crib bars (but didn't get out of the crib) (and he normally NEVER tries to climb out) and screaming so hard my own throat hurt to hear him scream. Each time he stopped to breathe, the next scream was even louder. We let him scream hysterically like that for about 2 minutes when I decided he was only escalating, not calming down himself, so I went in. When he saw me he screamed even LOUDER and I almost jumped out of my skin when he screamed right in my face! After I picked him up he calmed down enough to say some words-- "ice cream!!!" (haha) and then calmed down as I held and rocked him. He did not fall back asleep, and after about 20 minutes I put him back in his crib. He did the monkey/koala thing of hanging onto me so that I couldn't put him down, but after reassuring him "Mommy will stay, Mommy will stay" he let me lay him down in the crib. I sat on the floor next to him for a while until he started to roll away from me, then I said goodnight and I love you and left the room. After about a minute he stood up and cried, for about 3 or 4 minutes total, then stopped and just rolled around. I don't know when he fell asleep (I fell asleep first, watching him on the monitor) but he woke up this morning, a little late (we all slept in!) and happy as usual.</p> <p>Looking back I know everything I did was probably right for Wagon Jr., but nights like last night just break my heart into a million pieces. But what more could I have done? And why does he wake like this? I keep waiting for him to grow out of it, but he's 2.5 years old now. Wagon Sr. is a restless sleeper and I wake up very cranky and groggy very often, so maybe he gets it from us, but every time it escalates into something like this I'm worried we'll end up having to sleep on the floor in his room every night, especially after this new baby comes. It takes him such a long time to fall back asleep (we're talking at least an hour) so co-sleeping isn't really an option.. it just gets him more riled up to be near us. The last time we tried that was in a hotel room-- when we got there at midnight he woke up, and didn't go to sleep until after 3:30am!</p> <p>Any advice???? </p>