Night terrors...HELP pls

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Hi, my dd is 15 months old. She only rarely sleeps through the night. Recently, she has been waking up screaming really loud as if shes in sooo much pain. I'l go to her,but she wont want to know me, arches her back and sometimes pushes me away! I'l be up with her from anything from half hour- two hours trying to calm her in everyway u could imagine, nothing seems to calm her other then time.

This is a horrible & upsetting feeling and can be very scary. I took her to the Health visitors and they said its night terrors, but didnt give me fk all advise (excuse my lang-my health/v are the worst ever).

Just wondered if any of your lo's have suffered with this and any ideas on calming lil one would be much appreicated. x

DS2 suffered from night terrors when little (he's now nearly 10). It is very frightening and upsetting for a parent to witness this and, unfortunately, there seems to be little you can do other than what you are doing and just wait for the child to grow out of them.

DS2 is still prone to the odd "nightmare", which usually results in him getting out of bed all damp and sweaty and being in a state of "not quite there". He will still push me away saying "I want my mum", but now I just stay very calm and tell him that I'm there and he should go back to bed. He normally does this, goes back to sleep and is oblivious to what has happened in the morning.

DS1 suffer from night terrors. It's incredibly upsetting beofre you get used to it. I think it started around the age of 2 and although it hasn't gotten better, I am more used to it. We still cannot have baby sitters because we coulnd't put anyone else through dealing with it. Mine really is alseep and doesnt remember a thing in the morning. It's been slightly easier for me because believe it or not, my DH also suffers from them. Not sure if you can call it night werrors at his age, but he does have something similar and suffered from it when he was little too.

Thanks for your help!!! Just wish there was sumthing i could do to help my DD, i hate seeing her like that. Plus it doesnt help that im one for really needing my sleep, so when im up at night and the same thing happens again the next night or she just wakes for another reason, where im tired i feel like im gona fall to pieces!! Its so horrible knowing theres nothing i can do :-(

My sister had these when she was a kid, discovered it was benelyn medicine causing them, is your DD on any medication at the moment?

nah...no medicien, just the occasional Calpol if shes teething bad but thats it. :-(

My friend's little boy just had a few weeks of night terrors - if you read about them in New Toddler Taming it says you basically can't do anything about them and they'll grow out of it. You can't calm them down when they are having an episode and that is the difference between these and nightmares. Hence why no advice from the HVs I guess (they are generally rubbish though aren't they........)