One year old- night terrors.

[PeraltaSpidey]

Hi all, I have a 12 month old (13 months next week) and twice now we've noticed her display something akin to night terrors. At first, I put it down to a vaccine side effect as the first happened a few nights after. But she had another last night, and I'm not sure.

Randomly in the night, she starts screaming inconsolably, in a way that she never cried usually. It sounds terrified. I pick her up, and I notice that she's only awake in do much as her eyes are s little bit open. Other than that, she's not actually consiously awake. Shes not responsive at all, except for screaming and flapping about.

As soon as she comes round the crying stops as quickly as it started. But, now she's clingy like a marsupial and her little heart is going a mile a minute. After that she's super whingy and hard to settle for the rest of the night.

What is this? How do I stop them for her. I feel so awful that she experiences this.

Apparently this is too young for night terrors but my daughter started with them about age 2, and her little friend had had the health visitor involvement as she had started with them about age 1
Anecdotally I find my DD gets them more if she is too warm. I don't think you're meant to try and wake them or anything, just have to wait until it passes.

My DD2, now 14, had them from about 18 months, finally stopped aged 6 or 7. Our HV recommended rousing her slightly from deep sleep when I went to bed. That was successful some of the time but she ended up sleeping with me a lot (never had one if she slept in my bed).

I know this isn't the ideal solution but I had 2 older DC who would also be woken if she had a night terror and I was a lone parent so it was the easiest for me at the time.

My DD had one (about two at the time) and I was terrified, she was asleep but awake and seemed to see something in the room and was screaming and pointing at 'it'. I did wake her up slowly and gently (saying things like it's alright and it's just a bad dream), she quickly went back to sleep, me not so much. Only happened once but more than enough for me.