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So as some of you have seen on the cofessions thread,
China Doll is developing the hereditary night terrors from her dads side...
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Do any of you have expierece with this?
How do you console a 2 yr old that is now afriad to fall asleep?
I have read that them being over tired can make them worse, and she has a nightly bed time routine at the same time every night, yet now she is staying up until 11 pm fighting her sleep..
any advice would help greatly
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As an adult who still suffers night terrors and my bio son does also, I can tell you a few things that may help. Closely monitor what she watches, just one image for me can trigger a weeks worth of terror. I know she is only two but see if you can get her to talk about it. I know it sounds silly but for my son I spray "fairy dust" vanilla freshener in his room before he goes to sleep.
Hi there! I have a 7 year old son that we adopted from Vietnam back in 2006 when he was 3. Night terrors began within a few months of his arrival. He was hard to communicate what they were about and many times was actually in a state of sleep walking. When he began to have a larger vocabulary, while he was sleep walking (his version of night terror) he would say things about bugs (a fear he did come to our home with). As he got even a little older during a terror/sleep walking he would be saying he doesn't see mom and dad. Just a bunch of other people. We were able to piece some things together. He lived in an orphange a very open compound type environment and all sorts of creepy crawlies. Bugs triggered things for him for a while. The next night terrors about not seeing me and my husband, as he got older was able to ask questions about where he lived before and from our answers was able to put 2 and 2 together on his own. He was having flash backs of living in the orphanage with a bunch of different kids that looked like him but he didn't know them and not being able to see us in these flash backs scared him. As we have been able to speak more clearly of his adoption now that he is old enough to start understanding, they are less and less. If he hears someone arguing or has to be disciplined for something, sometimes he will still have night terrors. There is no real evidence, but we do wonder if there perhaps were more severe forms of discipline in the orphanage and when we raise our voices or he hears others raising their voice at each other, it causes a trigger. They have gotten better with time and we have been able to peice things together. Hopefully, as she gets older she will be able to remember bits and peices that will help you make some sense of what is triggering her terrors.
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My younger daughter had them (she's now age 4). They are more painful for us parents than the child. Children are asleep during the event and have no recollection of anything the next morning. My daughter would have fits of screams/thrashing in the air/kicking/crying for about 5 minutes or more. I would hold her, rock her and walk around the house with her until she fell back asleep. I learned that a definate bedtime routine on time would help. As soon as she stayed up too late, it was a given a terror would happen. For her it took place during the 3yo phase and slowly died out. As for a child that is afraid to go to bed, we tried everything. Every child is different- leave lights on, have lots of comfort objects, etc - Best wishes to you!
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