On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:51:01 -0700 (PDT), Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
<penelope@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Can anyone help me figure out this mystery? My 16-month old wakes up
>between midnight and 2 am every single night and cries very loudly. He
>just wakes up every night without fail, sits up and cries, with his
>eyes closed. He says "No, no!" and pushes us away if we try to pick
>him up. Generally a bottle will console him, but at times times he is
>too upset even for that. The past couple of nights, he accepted to be
>carried in our arms and then went to sleep again with a bottle.
>
>We have not been able to change the pattern whether we feed him a lot
>or a little for dinner, or whether he has had a particularly busy day
>or not.
>
>It's so bad that our condo neighbours have complained, which prompted
>us to look for a single family home. We're moving this week in fact!
>Still, we would like to figure out why our little one cries. It's
>been going on for months and months. I don't remember the last time
>he slept through the night without crying at least once. Some nights
>he wakes up multiple times too.
Sounds like it is night terrors. I think it's on the younger end for
them though. We've dealt with them with ds from the time he was about
three until recently (he's 8 in October). I just recently noticed he
hasn't had one in about four months or so.
I hate to say it, but when they are having a night terror, there isn't
all that much you can do except ride it out until it ends. Like your
ds, usually my son didn't want to be consoled and as he got older and
stronger, he started to get physical. I'm glad he's outgrowing them!
I usually turn the lights on and just sat with him until he came out
of it. I could always tell when it was ending because his pupils would
go back to normal (they would be either constricted or dilated during
the terror).
HTH
JennP.
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