Midnight meltdowns

[Mumof2girls123]

I don’t know if this is an issue for anyone else but I am struggling. I have a 3 year old who will wake up at any time during the night and have a meltdown . What I mean by night meltdown is she will scream and scream over nothing. These will start by her thrashing about screaming no no no and then will turn into a meltdown. She has had these for a while but lately it’s happening more often than not. There is no reasoning with her no talking to her no calming her down she will scream and if I try and talk she will just scream mum. She has a few other behaviour issues at the moment that are quite new but these night tantrums have been around a while. I don’t know what to do. It is not night terrors I’ve been down that route with the GP. I’m at a loss on what I can do has anyone been through similar ?

Why is the GP so sure it's not night terrors? Sounds a lot like them

It does sound like the night terrors my DD had at about that age.

If so, they’re asleep so you can’t really comfort them, they just have to ride it out.

She’s awake when the screaming and shouting starts and the thrashing about. She shares a bed with me and repeatedly kicks me. The GP based it of her behaviour the fact she is angry not upset. She’s also quite bright for her age at recognises things that upset her and scare her and she’s never mentioned any bad dreams or anything scary during the night