2 year old waking 2-3 times screaming at night 😫

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DD is 2 next month and I’m beginning to despair with her night waking. At least 2-3 times per night she will suddenly wake crying & screaming and there is very little I can do. She will often be in such a state that she won’t accept her comforter/dummy so I end up having to just leave her until she stops (often up to 30mins) which I really don’t like but I don’t know what else to do.

She goes to nursery 4 days a week, naps for 1/1.30hrs a day and goes off to sleep with no issues. She will usually sleep soundly until 10pm when she wakes for the first time. We have never brought her into our room to sleep in our bed.

PLEASE can somebody offer me some advice?!?! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Is it a night terror? I remember DD going through that stage and I found that i almost had to wake her fully to get her out of it. She’d often end up coming into our bed but as a stage it didn’t last too long although that’s easy to say looking back.

My DS is a similar age and has started doing the same. I also think it's a night terror, and you'll need to make sure they snap out of it fully before going back to sleep. We thought DS had the first time and he just slipped back into it. Eventually he saw the cat, started laughing and was fine

This sounds like bought terrors to me.
My son sufferd from these since he was 15 months or so. He's now 3.
They often start 2-3 hours after bedtime but will continue throught the night.

It can be frightening as they don't respond to you. They kick and scream and push you away.

Sufferers of night terrors are in a half sleep like state. Their body is awake but they mine is sleeping.

We find that we have to turn on all the lights and stimulate him to properly wake him up. Then once 'awake' we can lie him back down and he falls straight asleep.

My son isn't even aware. Because he tells me I'm the morning that he had a nice sleep mummy.

Apparently they do grow out of it and it isn't anything to worry about. But perhaps have a rad about night terrors to see if this is similar to what your daughter is experiencing

Their mind*

Sounds like night terrors to me too. My dd had loads of them for a few months, she'd had the odd one before and still has then occassionally but around 2 was the worst. A friend's children were the same too.
The advice is not to wake them, they aren't actually awake and won't remember so it's only unpleasant for us (isn't parenting a delight?!).

www.nhs.uk/conditions/night-terrors/

Yep DS had these around a similar age. He is nearly three and not had any for a while. They are horrible OP, truly awful. At first we couldn't understand why he didn't want comfort etc but it's so totally normal and you really do just have to leave them, let them work it through. We understood waking them was a massive No....(HV advice).