Sleep Walking/ Night Terrors Pretty long, but plz read!!!!!piog

Since you know what is causing him grief then have you tried shopping for a night light ? Both my kids have a fear and we've been working on it slowly. Right now they sleep in the dark. But take him shopping and get a "buddy light" thats what we called our kids nightlight. That way it doesnt should childish.

I have put multiple lights in his room, just for him to get up and pull them out and lose them and then try to play witht the plug-in. Someone on another group posted a link for a light that he can actually sleep with tho that may be worth a shot.

I agree with that, as well as when my DD was that age we took a spray bottle put some water in it prayed over it(with DD) and at night before bed would go into her room and spray it all over. we told her it was angel spray. and that it would keep anything bad away. it actually worked. now she uses a nightlight. gl.

Quoting CullenLover:

Since you know what is causing him grief then have you tried shopping for a night light ? Both my kids have a fear and we've been working on it slowly. Right now they sleep in the dark. But take him shopping and get a "buddy light" thats what we called our kids nightlight. That way it doesnt should childish.

Hmmm the water trick sounds good

yeah...i was in the same situation and looked up night terrors/ bad dreams and came across that. and decided to try it i also had back ups just in case but that one worked. you can google anything now a days and get alot of advice or ideas. give it a try never hurts

Very true, god love google!

 My oldest whom is 8 has night terrors.  I took him to a psychrist and the doctor told me when he gets one to wake him up and thatll get them out of it. 15% of boys get them its caused by anxiety. I was told either I can wait till the phase is over or I can send him to counseling and itll speed up the process. When my oldest gets them I freak because they are capable of doing anything and they dont relize what they are doing. I had hid all knives in the house just because my son will wake up scared.  Maybe try giving a lavender bath before bed and giving chamomile to relax your child. and get a lock for the bathroom doors so he cant do the hot water. Good luck mommas.

GATES. Only a few times the baby has decided to wander the house, so the gates go up.

My son is almost 9 and has had true night terrors since about 6 months old. Your son does not sound like he is have a terror. Possibly bad dreams maybe sleep walking. My son still sleep walks and even sleep eats on a regular basis.

You can NOT wake a child from a night terror. They may wake on their own but more often then not will just drift back into a peaceful sleep. It is so scary to watch your child looking fully awake but with the glazed look about them thrash around and scream and pound their little heads into things and know that there is nothing you can do to stop it. If we approached him he would get worse. We just had to stand by and make sure that he didn't do anything to harm himself. It has gotten better over the years and he has a sleep specialist who diagnosed him with RLS after a sleep study. He is now on two different meds at night to help him. He was waking up from his REM stage an average of 65 times a minute.

Now as for the sleep walking is there any way that you could just install a gate on his room and leave a small light on for him? Maybe even put in some kind of bell on his door to alert you? We still struggle with this because at my son's age a gate is not going to contain him. He has never harmed himself while sleep walking but we had to install hook latches on the tops of all of our outside doors because he would just go outside and wander.

I would not worry about making a big deal out of it because in the end his saftey is what's important and no one will get any restful sleep if they are worried about what might happen to him. Good luck!!

Quoting bmw29:

My son is almost 9 and has had true night terrors since about 6 months old. Your son does not sound like he is have a terror. Possibly bad dreams maybe sleep walking. My son still sleep walks and even sleep eats on a regular basis.

You can NOT wake a child from a night terror. They may wake on their own but more often then not will just drift back into a peaceful sleep. It is so scary to watch your child looking fully awake but with the glazed look about them thrash around and scream and pound their little heads into things and know that there is nothing you can do to stop it. If we approached him he would get worse. We just had to stand by and make sure that he didn't do anything to harm himself. It has gotten better over the years and he has a sleep specialist who diagnosed him with RLS after a sleep study. He is now on two different meds at night to help him. He was waking up from his REM stage an average of 65 times a minute.

Now as for the sleep walking is there any way that you could just install a gate on his room and leave a small light on for him? Maybe even put in some kind of bell on his door to alert you? We still struggle with this because at my son's age a gate is not going to contain him. He has never harmed himself while sleep walking but we had to install hook latches on the tops of all of our outside doors because he would just go outside and wander.

I would not worry about making a big deal out of it because in the end his saftey is what's important and no one will get any restful sleep if they are worried about what might happen to him. Good luck!!

I agree. I had night terrors when I was younger, but around highschool I traded it in for sleep walking. It definitly sounds like sleep walking to me. The only advice that I can give, that the other ladies haven't already offered, is to make sure any locks you buy are top locks. Put them way up high on the door. Usually, sleep walkers will do things that are a habit. Such as eating, getting the mail, making phone calls to numbers they dial frequently. If you keep a journal of the things he does in his sleep, you may be able to get an idea of things he might do in the future, for example: if he has been getting in the refigerater, and you put a lock on it, he may try for the pantry, or cuboards. I'm just suggesting this, because it's what my mom did to stay a step ahead of me. Now she just laughs and says it's my husbands problem. Lol!