Night Terrors

[RedRumElmosMum]

DD (5yrs) has been having night terrors now for a few weeks . She woke up 4 times last night very upset . She is terrified to be alone in her room and makes me do a ritual each night before bed time to pull the blinds down over the windowsill & close the curtains so" no eyes can see her through the window"(her words) Same happens to the window out on the landing because it is facing her bedroom . She has a night light on in her room & i leave the landing light on all night too . Any one been through this with the dc ?
I tell her i am there and i will stay awake all night to mind her . It's the only way i can get her back to sleep .
TIA

Hi redrum
All of mine went through something similar but they were all about the 3/4 mark. youngest daughter is 3 now and when she started i moved her bed into her sisters room and hopefully i caught it before she went a bit daft with it.

Anyways back on point........the only thing i found worked was just riding it out. We had the man with the scary hair, the old man in the wall and the two boys who keep waking them up at night to play, i even had one night when the DD1 watched some unseen children across her bedroom whilst asking me to tell them to leave her alone Heaps of stories i could tell you that had me a wee bit on edge let me tell you! (doesnt help we live in 200yr old house)

i have had nights sleeping with them, them sleeping with me, staying in their room until they fall asleep, sleeping with one ear to the wall just incase and many many nights of around 2 hours sleep.

the best thing i found was giving them a dreamcatcher/guardian angel and telling them a story about how all the scary things they thought were in their room at nights would get taken away by them and as a back up the each had a special teddy that was given to then for the sole purpose of making sure nothing horrible happened, and if they felt a little frightened to hug into the teddy and he would help them feel better.

i dont think they actually believed it but it gave them something different to focus on. Apologies if thats a bit garbled, hope it makes some sense and hope it helps a bit :)

it will pass :)

Ahh thanks Witch

reading what your DD used to see/say has just sent a shiver down my spine . My mum bought dd a special teddy this morning actually as i was telling her about dd's nightmares . DD is not easily fooled though as she told my mum "Nana don't be silly , he's just a teddy stuffed with wool , he can not mind me all night " you should have seen my mums face LOL . Hopefully it's just a phase that will pass soon . Ds never went through anything like this so it's all new to us .

Thanks for your help x