Nightmares

Mod-quietsong · #1 May 2nd, 2012, 04:50 AM

Does your LO have them often? How do they recover from them?

Poor Danny has them now and then - not full out night terror, he recovers pretty quickly, but he'll wake up just crying and screaming and won't calm down without some cuddling and reassurance. I wish I knew what they were about so I could help him talk through them!

Ali15 · #2 May 2nd, 2012, 05:32 PM

Aw, poor thing!

I don't think nightmares have happened too often for Brennan, but a few nights ago he woke up crying really hard (he'd been asleep for maybe 2 hours). DH went up and apparently Brennan said a cow with horns scared him and he wanted daddy to make it go outside. So DH took care of it

and Brennan was fine quickly after that.

mayandsofiasmommy · #3 May 2nd, 2012, 09:30 PM

Sofia just had one last night. She's actually had a couple lately and now she can tell me about them. Last night was pretty bad she just couldn't back to sleep for a long time. Last night's was someone was chasing her- couldn't tell if it was Maya or someone else

The other night she had a freaky one, she SWORE that one of her classmates was on the wall- like his face maybe?? She was convinced that was real, poor girl!

Oh, and here is one thing I will NEVER forget! Once when I was little- probably 4 or 5- I had a bad dream, this huge spider was coming down on me. Well, my father told me to go back to sleep, you never have the same dream twice. Um, yeah. I had the SAME dream again.

Mod-quietsong · #4 May 3rd, 2012, 05:26 AM

I had a recurring nightmare around that age too, Heather! We'd just had a massive tornado come through and destroy a nearby neighborhood, and for like a month afterward, I had this dream where there was a big tornado outside, and I was in my bedroom and this small cyclone was chasing me around the house destroying everything. I remember having it at least 3 times

dream2bemommy22 · #5 May 3rd, 2012, 07:05 AM

Yes! Not too often, but ive noticed if she is particularly spooked about something, we have a bunch of bad nights where mom and dad have to end up sleeping in there at 2am when she wakes up panicking.

Admin-Twinkle · #6 May 3rd, 2012, 12:29 PM

Kate went through a horrible phase of night terrors and anxiety last year, but things have definitely turned around and she doesn't seem to have any nightmares anymore