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Four year old sleep nightmare

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Pinklilly123 · 28/12/2021 04:34

My toddler has been waking up over the last month or so during the night and having absolute MELTDOWNS. He wakes me up and talks to me normally then when I say it’s not morning go back to sleep he goes completely, abnormally mental. He goes down normally then wakes at varying times throughout the night. Sometimes 11.30, sometimes 3 or 4am. I thought they might be night terrors but he talks to me and seems awake. He comes into our room and gets into our bed, punches, kicks tries to sit on our heads and screams the whole time for around 30 minutes sometimes longer. It is a living nightmare now and I’m losing my ability to be calm. I though all the Xmas excitement may have set him off and then he had a cold but this isn’t going away. He wakes the whole house up and likely the neighbours. I wouldn’t be surprised if the neighbours can hear which worries me. It sounds like world war three!! Does anyone know how to stop this? He has a good sleep routine, diet is normal not much rubbish or enumbers.

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MintJulia · 28/12/2021 04:41

Mine used to wake & cry, although no punching.

I'd take him back to his bed, climb in with him, snuggle down and pretend to go to sleep - relax, lengthen my breathing etc until he was asleep, then leave him to it.

Sometimes it took a while but it generally calmed things down quite quickly.

EvaLothar11 · 28/12/2021 05:02

My 3year old shouts out "I want my mummy" even though I'm saying "I'm here, mummy's here darling" it's very hard to console her so I quickly turn a low light on&she comes round after a while.... I think she must be half asleep... It doesnt happen ofren&it worried me first time it did, she cannot recollect anything afterwards but keeping calm&loads of reassurance afterwards calms her.... I don't even know what the trigger is because she is generally a happy child....i think it's common around this age... I think maybe it's because they are starting to dream and so sometimes on waking they find it hard to differeciate perhaps.. Also little ones have an overactive imagination starting to develope.
Plenty of cuddles x hopefully it'll be a phase x

Pinklilly123 · 28/12/2021 08:27

It’s been a month of multiple wake ups. It’s just relentless and I feel totally helpless and don’t know what the answer is.

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