Night terrors?

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Hi, my daughter is 15 months old. This behaviour has been ongoing from a very young age. During the night (on occasion) my daughter will wake screaming. When I go into her she doesn’t want to be held, she’s inconsolable. She will fight, kick, arch her back, scream and push away. We attempt to hold, rock and sing to her. We change her and feed her when we are able to but that doesn’t help or it helps for seconds. It’s terrifying in the moment when it’s happening because there seems to be nothing we can do she’s inconsolable and it can go on for minutes to hours. I don’t know what’s causing it, I’ve considered that it happens more when she’s feeling unwell or teething, could this be a response to pain or is it night terrors or something else?

sometimes she is fully awake other times this has happened when she’s not fully awake yet.

Has or is anyone else experiencing this

Hi does she whimper or breath heavy in her sleep before she wakes up screaming? I'm pretty sure my 6 month old is having night terrors he does the same thing x

Sometimes she will whimper before but more often than not it just starts with her screaming. Her breathing is always different during. The bit I find hardest is that she won’t let me comfort her and won’t make eye contact when it’s happening. Is this going on for you to? X

Yeah it's the same and he gets really inconsolable and worked up I just don't know what to do :( tbh recently he's been doing it most nights!

Yeah she’s completely inconsolable and arching her back and fighting. We just come out of a period where she was doing almost every night for about 4/5 weeks. I think it correlates with when she’s unwell or teething but I’m not certain has your little one been unwell at all? I think my daughter has always done this or always had night terrors? I used to think it was symptoms of colic or reflux. I’m at a loss with what to do as well. For the moment we seem to have come out of it again but we have been going through periods of this since she was born

He's been constantly unwell since he was born pretty much! I have an older one in school who is always bringing stuff home. It's been one thing after another. But he does it whether he's sick or not. I don't think there's anything we can do about it I think we just wait it out until they grow out of it? I was on a similar thread on here not too long ago and the lady said hers had episodes until 15 months so hopefully the same will be of ours but I totally hate it and wish he didn't do it! He does all sorts though he's nothing like my daughter it's taken a lot of getting used to! So what I'm trying to say is don't worry. I think unless they stop breathing for long periods like 15 seconds plus that's when something might be up but otherwise it's natural x

Oh and also I think it's definitely associated with teething x

So has my daughter, it’s been one thing after the other: covid, chest infections, ear infections, colds. My daughter is almost 16 months old so hopefully it does start to stop soon. She’s my first so I’ve not experienced it before but I do remember having night terrors as a child, obviously far older than she is but it could be that mine also started early and I just don’t remember

ive asked friends with babies similar age and older and most have looked at me like I’m mad or mums with older children have said there’s did experience it but from about the age of 4/5 years old, not as a baby

I think it's fine honestly my first never did this but he does every child is different and I've trawled the internet and found tons of mums on different forums complaining of the same so it must be common although maybe not in your circle of friends?

This is interesting.. I've come on her because of the same thing. My DD is pretty much 14 months, and has done this the past few nights - but she's been poorly and is also Teething. So was thinking maybe night terrors...