My 3 Year Old Daughter!!!! Night Terror??

Updated on June 07, 2012
S.M. asks from Silver City, NM
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I have a 3 year old daughter and she became a sister 7 months ago. She's been awesome through out the whole thing it's just at night when it's time for bed I can put her to sleep in her own room and bed and at about 1a.m she wake's up screaming and crying hysterically!! I ask her what's wrong and she just cry's even louder. The only way I can calm her down is by taking her into our room and letting her sleep the rest of the night with us. When we wake up in the morning she's fine. She told me the other morning too and started crying while telling me she said I had a dream that you left me mom. My hear broke. I have never left my daughter anywhere she's been with me since before she was born. I don't know how to go about getting her to sleep in her own room and I don't know what to do if she is having night terrors?

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L.B.

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Sounds like more of a nightmare. Night terrors are a bit different, there is no consoling them while they are experiencing it. Their eyes may be open and they scream and cry as if in sheer terror of something that you can't see. Pretty freaky. The best you can do is be there with them but really there is nothing you can do. At least with the nightmare that your daughter had you can reassure her that you will be there for her, sounds like she is adjusting to a big change with the new baby and all. It's good she will go to bed in her own room! She is just needing to know that you are still there during the night and this too shall pass.

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H.M.

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That is a normal age for that type of thing. If you want her to stay in her room you might lay down with her for a little while and then when she has calmed down and gone back to sleep you can go back to your room.

Good luck and God Bless!!!

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J.C.

answers from Cleveland on

My almost 3yr old has been having these occurrences at times to, a couple times a week, I asked the doc about it and she suggested waking him up 30mins or so before the terrors tend to occur. She said it breaks their sleep cycle and it might take about a week, but has been known to fix the terror episodes. I did it a couple of times and it seemed to work on the nights I did it, but I have not been consistent. So it still happens occasionally. Good luck!

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J.L.

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My children have all had night terrors, but don't remember them in the morning. We just take them to the bathroom and put them right back to bed. Usually, it's a result of needing to go to the bathroom but they are too asleep to do it without help - as soon as they go, the crying usually stops and they go back to sleep. It's like sleep walking but with extreme crying.
Good luck.

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K.W.

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What Lucia said. It is very difficult (if even possible) to console a child with night terrors. I couldn't even come near my daughter when she was having them.

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