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Night Terrors/Tremors .......

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Sharpys top lip

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Was happily posting away on GOT, Monday night about Midnight. An out of teh blue my Daughter started screaming. Me an the missus thought it was a bit odd as she usally sleeps right through. So we went into her bedroom and she was beside herself. Her eyes were wide open but you could tell she was asleep.

We try'd to get her out of her cot, but she was clenched so tightly to it, was near impossible. Finaly when she was out. Took her into our bedroom an to be honest it was like she was posessed. She was screaming an tensing up. And did'nt reconise me or the missus. She was backing away from us and hid under the cot.

This went on for about 30mins. By now id rang the NHS hotline as we were very scared at what was happening. Finaly we decided to take her down stairs. As we were coming down she stoped crying an clung on to the missus. We sat on the couch an she snapped out of it!! She then looked up and gave us both big smiles like nothing had happend.

The NHS rang us back and said she had probbably had a night Tremor/terrors. Iv spent hrs on the Internet reserching this now. And it was exsactly as they say it. It's like posetion, not knowing who we are. Being scared, screaming. I then found out it is very common in 2-6 yr olds. Infact two of her cousins get it quite regular. The say the kid's dont remember anything about it either.

So i know all about it know. Just has anybody got any suggestions on how to bring them back around. Or whats best to do. The internet is good but people with experience is better.

Thanxs in advance...

STL.
 
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Two of my three little 'uns have had this or similar. I'm no expert but here's what I learned....

1. Make sure that you don't show displeasure to your daughter for what she is doing. She has no idea that she's doing it. Showing any sort of impatience can result in the child being reluctant to go to sleep for fear of getting in trouble. (This can be hard if you and the missus are knackered and have an early start...)

2. When she does get the terrors, just reassure her as best you can. Keep speaking to her in your normal, relaxed voice. Keep this voice going even if she ignores you. If she'll let you, pick her up and cuddle her, stroke her back, whatever...She'll either wake up as if nothing's wrong or suddenly drop off to sleep again. Don't try to 'wake' her from her 'dream'

3. I'm told it's a phase through which many children go and will pass without any problem. I've read that, occasionally, it can indicate something troubling the child - say at school or whatever. But mostly nothing to worry about - just love her to death and she'll be fine.

Good luck
 
Thanx Treb, that invaluble to me mate.

I think next time we'll be a lot better with it. As it was the 1st time it was realy scary for us. Can't belive how common it is in kids thou.

Hopfully it wont happen again.
 
My sister had that with her son, lasted about three months when he was 5 years old. They did about the same as treb, once they knew what was happening, and why, they were able to cope better. Hope this helps.
 
Sharpys top lip said:
Thanx Treb, that invaluble to me mate.

I think next time we'll be a lot better with it. As it was the 1st time it was realy scary for us. Can't belive how common it is in kids thou.

Hopfully it wont happen again.[/QUOTE]

It probably will happen again. Just don't let it worry you - little ones pick up on your worry and get worried themselves. The calmer you both are the more reassured she is, the quicker the whole thing passes....
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trebilcock66 said:
Two of my three little 'uns have had this or similar. I'm no expert but here's what I learned....

1. Make sure that you don't show displeasure to your daughter for what she is doing. She has no idea that she's doing it. Showing any sort of impatience can result in the child being reluctant to go to sleep for fear of getting in trouble. (This can be hard if you and the missus are knackered and have an early start...)

2. When she does get the terrors, just reassure her as best you can. Keep speaking to her in your normal, relaxed voice. Keep this voice going even if she ignores you. If she'll let you, pick her up and cuddle her, stroke her back, whatever...She'll either wake up as if nothing's wrong or suddenly drop off to sleep again. Don't try to 'wake' her from her 'dream'

3. I'm told it's a phase through which many children go and will pass without any problem. I've read that, occasionally, it can indicate something troubling the child - say at school or whatever. But mostly nothing to worry about - just love her to death and she'll be fine.

Good luck
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All this (y)
 
I don't know if this will help but my brother went through this when he was about 4 or 5. He would just begin screaming and shouting that something was going to get him. It would just happen all of a sudden and usually last for about 20 minutes. His eyes would be wide open and it would look like he was awake but he never remembered a thing about it. My mum used to take him downstairs and just talk to him normally until it suddenly just stopped. He was diagnosed as being a diabetic when he was three and the doctor thought it may have something to do with sugar levels but my mum was convinced it was fro something he may have seen on TV and made sure he didn't watch anything remotely scary. Eventually they just stopped and we never really found out for sure why he had them.
 
Sharpy
My eldest son went through it. The first time it happened we did the same as you.
It will pass and doesn't do any harm.
i was told that young kids can't seperate reallity from fantasy so even something on tv could trigger it of in there sub conscious.
 
Yes, iv read i can be somthing she watching. But at the moment it's FiFi an i cant see that doing any harm. She also Likes spounge bob, so could be that.
 
Sharpys top lip said:
Yes, iv read i can be somthing she watching. But at the moment it's FiFi an i cant see that doing any harm. She also Likes spounge bob, so could be that.
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sharpy, my worst nightmare i can recall from childhood is about that horrible stick fella on rupert, anything could do it as all the kids characters are a bit weird.
if it's that big cook ben thats doing it then i can point you in his direction and you can do him, he is a blue though. if he's away then you can just do his brother on his behalf...i'm sure he'd pass it on.
 

My two and half year old has done it a couple of times, not really recognised it as night tremors until i read your post but essentially she start crying/sounding quite upset, you'd go in and she looked like she was awake so give her a cuddle and she goes back to sleep, but actually me and the mrs got the impression she wasn't really aware of us being there.. when it last happened I just went in and said quitely, "its ok, daddy's here etc" and spoke in soothing tones.

Dreams can be influenced by sounds around the sleeper, you see that scenario played out alot in movies, and also I don't know if any of you have ever conciously controlled or re-directed a dream that was getting a bit scarey but thats possible to. So essentially my thoughts were to speak in a happy soothing voice and try to redirect her dream so she starts enjoying it again. If you sound panicky and upset that might add to the nightmare.

It is well wierd though, really wierd...
 
we were gonna do some sleep experiment when our 1st was born in nz, they start at 6 months and film them asleep, monitoring heartbeat etc and trying to work out what causes interrupted sleep, we came home though so didnt end up doing it, was also something to do with cot death as well, they were trying to figure out what goes on when the babies are sleeping.
 

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