Looking for opinions/experience of terrors in your LO's of similar age...
This afternoon I put DS down for a nap. He fought it but I eventually got him off to sleep & put him down. As he'd got overtired I did half expect him to wake after less than an hr (I find his sleep is crapper if he goes down overtired).
What I didn't expect was him crying but quite suddenly & it escalated VERY quickly to full on loud crying with tears. He was beside himself & inconsolable. I tried his dummy but he didn't want to know & I thought maybe he was hungry (even though it wasn't his hungry cry) but when I put my pinky in his mouth he went between not wanting to know to being like was going to suck but he couldn't suck properly .
The scariest thing though was, in attempt to calm him, I laid him down on the change table (he quite likes it there) he pretty much stopped crying suddenly & got this weird almost scared look on his face & his left eye was twitching. I freaked out thinking he was having some sort of fit! So I quickly scooped him up & the crying resumed. This happened once more on our bed & I frantically called my husband thinking he was really sick & we were going to have to go to A&E. I passed him to my DH (who was outside on our decking) & my DS shortly after calmed down.
We then decided to feed him & he was ok the rest of the day.
This really upset me as he was SO inconsolable! And the eye twitching was scary. I know him really quite well & this was very out of character for him. The only time he cries big time is when he's hungry but this was a whole other level of crying & he had only been fed 6oz barely 2hrs previous. I know his hungry behaviour & this just wasn't it - I just instinctively know, as his cries nearly broke my heart.
So wtf was it??! I did a bit if googling & stumbled upon night terrors but he seems very young. He did seem awake but perhaps not & maybe the change to my DH snapped him out of it? Or was it Gas?? Teething?? Other??
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Did my 3mth DS have a 'nap' terror today??
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u32ng · 05/05/2013 22:15
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