Is it possible for a 13 month old to have night terrors?

[Linzi14]

Hi 👋🏼 newbie here.

I guess I just wanted to ask what I've wrote in the subject really?
Waking at night is nothing new to me, it's just the way it has started to happen recently that has led me to ask the question, she wakes up roughly the same time each night, she starts off whining, then progressively gets louder , not really awake (video monitor). This can go on n off, then it's a full blown cry and she's still not really awake as when one of us goes to pick her up she thrashes around carrying on when we bring her into our room. Then she won't go back in her cot and will only settle in our bed, although sometimes I need to give her milk. I tried comforting her in her cot which works for about 10-20 minutes before she's awake again.

Sorry my first post is a bit long-winded

Sounds like something could be waking her doesn't it? Cold? A noise that's in her room but not yours? Maybe try sleeping in her room with her to try and figure it out?

Yes. My dd suffered from night terrors and I now know in retrospect that they were happening from a very early age. The good news is that now at 14, she just talks in her sleep and no more night terrors. Although she does still sleep with me when she's upset or anxious about something and it seems to keep her calmer.

Maybe cold, I changed her from pjs to a sleepsuit last night and she slept all night, only problem when she does sleep all night, she gets up at 5.45!. I know over tiredness can cause night terrors which we do have a major problem with at the moment. She's massively over tired by the time she goes to bed, she's stuck in a rut of getting up super early and wanting to nap quite early, then refusing a 2nd nap. So ends up going to sleep around 6.30-7 getting up at 5-6 sleeping around 9-10 then going all the way to 6.30 without a nap. I've tried holding back a nap to 11, but then she'll only sleep half an hour n is still tired come tea time. Dreading the clocks going back!