I think my DD1 may be suffering from night terrors.

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I am not quite sure what to do, if anything IYKWIM. DD1 is 2.5yo and has had these 'night terrors' for a few months now.
Last night was awful, she seemed to have several. She screams very loudly and high pitched, when DH & I go to her room she is usually sat up in bed but we have also found her wandering her room screaming. We are unable to console her, she looks awake but TBH we don't think she is as her eyes seem almost glazed over.

DD1 was to supposed to have stayed at my parents house on Tuesday night but she had what I think was a night terror there and my parents were quite disturbed by it. They were upset and thought that they had caused it by letting her stay up past her normal bedtime.
Dad said that DD1 was walking round the house and almost physically 'fighting' off any attempt to cuddle/console her or to get her back in to her bed. They brought her home

Is this something she will just grow out of or does it need some intervention from the GP?

TIA

Thanks, I am hoping she will just grow out of it. DH says that I am sometimes the same but not to the extent of DD. I do have terrible nightmares/dreams so wonder if DD gets it from me.

DD seemed to be okay for a couple of months then they have started up again. I hope she doesn't remember them. TBH I don't think she does she hasn't mentioned anything anyway.

Thank you

We are in total upheaval at the mo, the house is being renovated, we have moved DD2 into her room, and she has a viral infection!! Bless her must be too much for her to cope with!!

Move DD2 into DD1's room (felt it needed clarifying lol)

Thanks, I really hope so.

We had about a year of dd enduring these. They would happen a couple of times a week and were upsetting to see and she appeared terrified at the time. She would be back to normal the next day. Luckily she outgrew them.

kreecher, how old was your DD when she outgrew them?

I suffered awful night terrors as a child, so badly that no body would ever babysit me!! my poor parents, they did go on for quite a few years. My DS suffers from them too however I have found that they increase if he gets too hot - so no socks and I pull the duvet down to his waist - also by gently rousing him, just stroking his hair about an hour after he has gone to sleep tends to change his sleep pattern and avoid the night terror. Most night terrors happen in the first 2 hours of sleep not in the early hours etc... there is documented evidence on the internet that this gentle waking does prevent them!!!

My ds has suffered from these on and off since he was about 4 years old. He screams, runs on the spot sometimes, calls out to mummy but pushes me away when I get there. He shouts out what seem like random questions, and never rememebers it in the morning. I have found the best thing to do is to answer his questions as reassuringly as possible, even if it seems like gobbledygook to me, and to sing to him. He stops really quickly then, otherwise he has been know to keep going for up to 40mins!

For him it is stress related, feeling isolated in school because of his medical condition, or being bored in school because he is not being stretched enough (he has his father's brains!), things like that. No need for intervention just needs to work their way through it. He does it much less now he is 7.

DD was about 3 when she started them and nearly four when they stopped.

My ds2suffers from these. He is now 10 and he has had them since he was about 4. They are not as frequent now. He is a very anxious boy and he tends to suffer more when he is in a particularly anxious patch.

Not much to be done really. We check on him now and then leave him to shout.