Hoping someone can help me.
My daughter is nearly 3. For the last few nights she has been waking up in the middle of the night screaming incoherently and shaking. When I pick her up I can feel her trembling, it’s almost like her hands and feet are spasming. Tonight I found her standing up in bed pointing to something on the wall. She tried to struggle out of my arms then reached up to be picked up again. When I brought her to my bed, she lay still for a few minutes then started shouting the same nonsensical words over and over again and became furious (to the point of almost making herself sick) when we don’t know what she means. (Ordinarily she speaks 2 languages very well). We have only just got her to calm down.
The only changes in her life is that her grandma is visiting at the moment.
Does anybody recognise this kind of behaviour? My first thought was night terrors but I don’t know much about them. (I also wondered if it might be to do with sugar - she’s had ice cream a few times since Grandma has been here because it’s been so hot. I myself get almost unbearable restless leg syndrome when I have sugary things like ice cream. We are going to try cutting it out completely to see if that helps).
Right now I feel sick with anxiety and the shock of being jolted awake by my screaming child and I’m desperate to help her.