Toddler night terrors

[House2home21]

Sorry hijacking a busy board for advice.

My 2 nearly 3 yo has just started to have night terrors 99.9% convinved this is what they are.

It's been building steadily over the past 3 weeks and happening every night for the past 4 nights and last he was having them every 40 mins between 9pm (I would say he was fully asleep by 7:50) and 3:30am.

It is sending is under and isso upsetting to witness.

Called the GP as all the stuff online says if there's more than 2 episodes a night to seek medical assistance.They are not interested an I just feel completetely desperate, no real advice offered. This cannot be normal and surely we can't be expected to contiune like this indefinitley I'm struggling to work.

My eldest DS had night terrors every time he was overtired. I found the solution was to really wake him up at the first one, so bright lights, being a bit chilly (not wrapped in blankets cuddled on your lap) and a cool wet cloth on the face and hands used to wake him, and he would turn from night terrors to REALLY cross I had woken him from his nice sleep!

Once he was awake it was relatively easy to resettle (quick story in warm bed with cuddles and dim lights) and then i could go back to bed (less settled and frankly quite upset, they are horrid!)

They will pass I promise you as does everything but they take a bit of riding out!

They are completely normal but terrifying till you get used to them, all mine had them.
We found that they used to have them at a similar time and by waking them slightly five minutes before they wouldn't have one.
Or the moment we heard stirring we'd run up and go to them, often we could disturb the terror so it wasn't full blown.
If a full blown one happened we found talking about weird things worked. So 'ah look at Teddy, he's having a party with iggle oh they have cakes ' just random stuff but it seemed to get through, then as pp said make sure they were awake before resettled.

Similar advice here, my DD suffered from terrible night terrors. It was awful and sounded like she was being murdered in her sleep and used to wake the whole house up with a jolt!

I was advised to actually wake her before I know the night terror was due to happen as they seemed to happen at the same time each night. You’ll need to fully wake your DC as pp suggested, this worked for us in a few nights of doing the waking before the night terror starts. Tiring but worth it. Good luck op

Yes, agree with the above. Wake him at say 8:45 to disrupt the sleep pattern.
They're awful. DS had them between the ages of 2-4. His were worse if he was overtired and stopped when he had his tonsils removed (sleep apnoea prior to this - caused by his massive tonsils - meant he had very poor sleep).