Night Terrors

[Cat14123]

My eldest (now 2) suffered from night terrors that started at about 15 months. The only way to soothe him was to give him a bottle of milk when you could eventually get him to calm down to take it. This then made issues when the night terrors stopped and he would wake up for bottles of milk! He Sleeps through now thankfully!! However he has recently sleptwalked a few times! 😭

My almost 8 month old has just started waking up screaming the same!
I know fml! My partner sleep walks and they clearly get it from him 😭
I'm trying to stop it without a feed, she doesn't have a bottle so it's boob that settles her but I've been waking her up and then cuddling her back to sleep!
Its happening a few times a night this week 💤

Anyone else have active sleepers? Night terrors? Any tips to survive it 🤣

You dont necessarily need to assume that because she's waking up inconsolable that it's for night terrors, and sleep walking and night terrors are not linked as far as I'm aware? Indeed I know one of my children (I have four) sleepwalks. He's nearly 15 now and has done right from being a toddler - no nighmares or sleep issues though - in fact he's always been the deepest sleepers of all my children.

So your 8 month old waking up. There could be a million reasons for this. Do you breastfeed to sleep at bedtime and naptime? Or hold/rock to sleep in your arms before putting down in the cot? Because this is the most obvious reason to semi-wake in a confused state and being inconsolable.