Ok I will start at the beggining of my day yesterday... my one year old daughter cut her finger open and was dripping blood EVERYWHERE. I still have NO idea what she cut it on and she didn't even cry so I don't know where she was when she cut it. I applied preasure, ran it under cold water, put an ice cube on it and NOTHING would get it to stop. After over an hour I called her ped. and she told me to take her to the ER to see if she needed stitches. The SECOND I walk in the ER the bleeding stops. They check her out, no stitches and sent her homw with a band-aid. So we get home and I put her down for her nap and about an hour later I hear her screaming in her crib. I go upstairs and see her laying still on her back screaming (usually she is standing up when she wakes up). So I pick her up to calm her down thinking she is hugary and she starts thrashing around in my arms uncontrolably. I thought she just wanted to get down so I put her on the floor and she continues to scream and thrash. So bad I had to hold her head so she wouldn't hit it on the bed. FInally I scoop her up holding her tight as she is still screaming and thrashing and carry her downstairs. I laid her on the floor and took all her clothes off looking for anything that could be causing her to be in pain...nothing. I take her diaper off to see if she is pooping and it is coming out hard....nothing. I look in her mouth while she is screaming to see if there is anything stuck in there...nothing. After about ten mins. of uncontrolable screaming and thrashing I call 911 in a panic. With in mins a cop showed up at my door and the instant he opened my door she just like that stopped screaming and thrashing. The EMTs came shortly after and still nothing. She wimpered a little but them started smiling at everyone. We desided to have her observed at the ER and they checked her out, looked for hairs wraped around anything...nothing. They didn't want to poke her and prod her because she look perfectly fine. They came up with no reason for the episode. We kind of thought of night terrors but doing research she is way too young to have them and she never went back to sleep afterwards. So again I ask WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? Does anyone have any clue of what might have happened? We are going back to her ped. later today for a follow up but I have no idea what to tell her.
I don't know about night terrors but it could have just been a regular old bad dream? Maybe she was re-living cutting herself and seeing all that blood? Who knows! It could be anything...but thankfully it was nothing!
Glad she is OK!
She isn't too young for night terrors. My son and daughter started them at around 10 months and kept it up until almost 3years of age. Their doctor said it could be a seizure disorder but he watched an episode or 2 I had recorded and said it was night terrors-they can look completely awake but are pretty much unresponsive blank looks etc. We didn't try to wake them up at all just talked soothingly over the screaming and rubbed thier back until it was over. Not sure if that helps but if it happens again record it and take it to her ped.
I love "Crazy Baby Syndrome"!
Not sure what is causing it, but sometimes a good distraction can stop these outbursts..
Like put the baby in the car and go for a drive..
Walk outside and look at the cat crossing the street.
An "accidental" big bang, because "someone" dropped a cookie sheet on the floor.. "Oo, what was that, lets go look!"
Or a little time on the swing.
I use to pick up our daughter and spin around.. .. Or I would turn on some dancing music and start dancing with her.. Sometimes, just going to the front door and opening it up.. got her mind off of whatever had freaked her out.
It very well could of been night terrors. My son had them when he was 7-8 months old. They look wide awake but are still asleep and have absolutely no reaction to anything. With him it would sometimes last up to two hours before he would actually wake up an calm down.
Crazy baby syndrome?
When my son was @ 18 months, he cried hysterically for no reason. I could NOT calm him down and it was VERY unusual for him. In addition, he has a really high pain tolerance (got a black eye playing in the house and I have NO IDEA how it happened because he never cried) but was crying like he was hurt.
I drove him to the pediatrician. He cried the whole way there. We get out to walk in and he is totally fine. By the time we walked in the hospital - smiling and happy.
oh wow, that must have been scary! dont you just hate it when you know something is wrong with your child but you cannot figure out what! well, i would continue to monitor your child as you are doing and document anything odd or out of the ordinary, maybe keep a running log of sleep patterns. what was she/he like before, during and after sleep. make sure you keep dates and times on it too. this might be something you may not find the answer out right away, but if it continues i would def contact your PED about it. maybe it could possibly be seizures and your PED could suggest a sleep study to be done on your daughter to see what is going on in her sleep. Those are fabulous! Or, it could just be a phase she is going though and like someone said "crazy baby syndrome".. LOL You are doing everything you should be doing! Good luck mama!
First don't count out night terrors just yet. My oldest son(16) was the youngest his dr had ever seen with night terrors when he had them starting at about 13 months old and they stopped at about 23 months old. At first when they started happening we had no clue what was going on. He had been a wonderful baby til that point. When we discussed what was going on his dr looked at me and said it shouldn't be possible for one so young to have night terrors but he wasn't going to rule it out just because of age.
With him there would be times he would would wake up in the middle of it and not go back to sleep afterwards. Other times he would just stop and his eyes would close and that was that.
His night terrors were random and sometimes we would think they were done because he would go a couple of weeks without one episode only to have an episode happen. So don't be afraid to ask if the ped might want to check for that.
This happened to my daughter once too, somewhere around 12-18 mos old -- I don't remember exactly. I was so scared. She was thrashing around so bad I was worried about having her in her crib, so I took her out and just put her in the center of her bedroom. I felt like a wrestling referee, jumping around and blocking her from hitting any furniture. It seemed to last forever. And then it was over and never, ever happened again. My daughter had been ill, and I figured she was just reacting worse than normal because she felt ill. I bet your daughter was just having a bad reaction to her cut, and everything will be fine now.
So happy she seems to be fine : )
She's not too young to have night terrors, many children have them younger than the "norm."
And try Laurie A's suggestions the next time this happens, distractions really do work wonders on outbursts!
My daughter does that when she has a bad gas bubbles. Then it pops and she is fine.
