Night Terrors
We are doing great but have had a couple of rough nights. Last week and weekend Maggie had her first illness with me! She had a deep barking cough and was favoring her ear. So off to the doctor we went on Friday. She had a slight ear infection so they put her on some antibiotics. On Friday night, she starting running a fever of 101.9. She was burning up so I gave her some Motrin before putting her to bed. Her fever was gone around 3:00 a.m. when I got up to check on her.
Saturday was spent in the house all day trying to get well. She had a fever again around noon so the Motrin came out again. She would not nap and did not sleep well that night. She was up at 1:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Yes that is all night folks!!! I resorted to putting in a Winnie the Pooh video and putting her in bed with me so I could rest a little.
While watching the news Saturday night, I learned that all the meds I had been giving Maggie that week were on recall! Sweet...
Needless to say Sunday was a totally waste of not going to church and not doing much of anything but resting. Luckily her fever never returned. Sunday night, Maggie had a night terror. They are usually brought on by lack of sleep, or overstimulation or just happen. Luckily I had read a lot about them while I was waiting on Maggie! I was not scared but was very intrigued. It was wild to watch. She was thrashing around in her crib like a wild woman. All I did was to keep her safe and try to keep her from hurting herself. I tried to soothe her too but she was asleep, albeit with her eyes open, and wouldn't hear me. After about 7 minutes she settled back down and went to sleep.
Monday, daycare as usual and she is fine. Monday night - woke up at 10:45 pm to screaming and wanting me to hold her. I did and put her back in the crib once she feel asleep. She immediately woke up and wanted me to hold her. I ended up bringing her to my bed so we all could get some rest. Tuesday night, had a night terror at 11:00 p.m. When she woke up she wanted to get in bed with me.
Wednesday, wait and see...
What is it about her waking up around 2 1/2 hours of sleep? She has been doing this for awhile now but just lately it has been worse. I really don't want to co-sleep as it is hard for me to rest but if she needs it, I am doing it. Anyone else with the same issues?
The night terrors are horrible to watch but at least I can usually find a reason to why she had one. Night mares are worse in my opinion because they wake up frightened because they are aware of what is going on. A night terror is never remembered as they are fully asleep.
Sorry no pics today! I'm exhausted! LOL
Saturday was spent in the house all day trying to get well. She had a fever again around noon so the Motrin came out again. She would not nap and did not sleep well that night. She was up at 1:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Yes that is all night folks!!! I resorted to putting in a Winnie the Pooh video and putting her in bed with me so I could rest a little.
While watching the news Saturday night, I learned that all the meds I had been giving Maggie that week were on recall! Sweet...
Needless to say Sunday was a totally waste of not going to church and not doing much of anything but resting. Luckily her fever never returned. Sunday night, Maggie had a night terror. They are usually brought on by lack of sleep, or overstimulation or just happen. Luckily I had read a lot about them while I was waiting on Maggie! I was not scared but was very intrigued. It was wild to watch. She was thrashing around in her crib like a wild woman. All I did was to keep her safe and try to keep her from hurting herself. I tried to soothe her too but she was asleep, albeit with her eyes open, and wouldn't hear me. After about 7 minutes she settled back down and went to sleep.
Monday, daycare as usual and she is fine. Monday night - woke up at 10:45 pm to screaming and wanting me to hold her. I did and put her back in the crib once she feel asleep. She immediately woke up and wanted me to hold her. I ended up bringing her to my bed so we all could get some rest. Tuesday night, had a night terror at 11:00 p.m. When she woke up she wanted to get in bed with me.
Wednesday, wait and see...
What is it about her waking up around 2 1/2 hours of sleep? She has been doing this for awhile now but just lately it has been worse. I really don't want to co-sleep as it is hard for me to rest but if she needs it, I am doing it. Anyone else with the same issues?
The night terrors are horrible to watch but at least I can usually find a reason to why she had one. Night mares are worse in my opinion because they wake up frightened because they are aware of what is going on. A night terror is never remembered as they are fully asleep.
Sorry no pics today! I'm exhausted! LOL
Hey Tricia,
Well, we deal with night terrors around here. They are very predictable around the 2 - 2 1/2 mark. The way to break the cycle is to wake her just enough for her to make eye contact for 3-5 days in a row and you should be home free until the next time something triggers them. Hope this helps. Love you and miss you.
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Hey Tricia,
yeah..we did the whole night terror thing. With Hannah, not Sadie. Hannah had them pretty much every. single. night. for the first year she was home. Then they slowly got less and less frequent. But they didn't go away completely for about 3 years.
But hopefully since yours just started with her being sick..they'll pass quickly. The funny thing was that when they were happening every night, I was fine. I just learned to function on no sleep..and did pretty well. But then when she started sleeping through the night *most* nights, when she would wake or have a night terror..I was a walking zombie! I had gotten used to sleeping at night and it was messing me up.
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Elizabeth woke up every night for almost 2 years at 10pm and 2am. I would lay down with her until she was a sleep then go back to bed. Now, I just put her back to bed and she goes right back to sleep. She just want to make sure I was still there. I took her to bed with me once when she was running a fever and it took the next 2 nights of not letting her sleep with me before she quit asking.
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totally understand the not wanting to cosleep thing! as single mom's we have to preserve our energy and get our rest and like you, i cannot rest when molly is in bed with me! i'll do whatever she needs, but i feel we both rest better when we are in our own beds. of course at this point, we are both on wacky schedules...we ate breakfast @ 3:00 a.m. this morning and were bathed and ready to go by 5:00 a.m.! ha!! hope maggie gets better soon and the night terrors quit.
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