7 month old night terrors

[Gabbyn9876]

I'm worried that my baby girl has night terrors, her dad had them when he was a kid and I have read up that 80% of children that have night terrors have a family member that has had them.
She wakes up nearly every night at different times screaming, crying, thrashing about and she goes ridged. I have been told to just leave her and that she is fine but she screams and cries so much I end up crying. this can happen just once but can go up to four or five times a night. I just need a bit of advice and to see if there are other mums going through the same with such a young child.
Thanks xxx

Are you sure this isnt something like reflux? My daughter had servere reflux - to the point at one point we had to phone for an ambulance as she was that unwell. She would wake at night SCREAMING - like going from perfectly asleep to screaming so I knew something wasnt right - especially as she is such a good sleeper normally. When her reflux would suddenly get bad she would behave like that at night, until her reflux would calm down a few days later. When it was diagnosed she went on to retadine and the problem went away.

Just a thought!

Just to add hers was silent reflux so she was very rarely actually sick.