Can babies have 'cheese dreams'?

[bamamama]

Ok, ok I know is sounds like a mother clutching at straws but does anyone think, or have any experience of babies and night terrors? My ds (11 months) was happily sleeping through but in the last 3 weeks he's started waking up a couple of times a night, usually at least once before midnight. He's usually bolt upright and screaming and my HV has suggested that it's night terrors and he'll grow out of it. My dh pointed out that he does tend to have cheese sauce with everything and could this be disturbing his sleep? I thought this unlikely but who knows??? Any thoughts?

Don't see why not. Could be indigestion of course! To state the bleeding obvious, try NOT giving it to him and see what happens.

Apparently lettuce contains laudenam and that's known to induce dreamless sleep - but I don't fancy your chances of getting your son onto salad within the next 24 hours .

DD age 3 1/2 suffers from night terrors (and sometimes night tantrums) when she is overtired. It is scary and hard work and she never remembers a thing about it. We are all knackered the next day and she is happily oblivious!
It may be cheese, I never knew if that was a true thing or an old wives tale, but next time DD has them I will make a mental note to self to remember what she ate that day, I never really thought about it before.

Even though I'm sceptical about cheese (and just who isn't) I did miss it out of tonight's dinner. It's just so handy as he loves it. Salad may be a big ask but give me a few more weeks of broken sleep and it'll be lettuce risotto all round. without parmesan.

It has taken nearly 6 years to get DD1 to eat just a tiny bit of lettuce- obviously a different bit the one first offered many years ago!

I've had a small titter because I GET CHEESE DREAMS TOO and I'm 40 (eek) so I symapathise with your DS bananamama.
Night terrors are horrible for the little ones. If you can see that he is sufering at about the same time each night you could try waking him just beforehand, this is recommended I think by Dr Tanya (a recent article in The Times, have a look on their website) HTH

My son, at a similar age, used to get night terrors. Don't think it was related to food. Just a phase he went through.