Toddler screaming all night

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[Post New]02/19/2021 10:03
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Night terrors?


https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/Patients-Families/Health-Library/HealthDocNew/Night-Terrors


This doesn't sound like night terrors. I'm the pp with the almost three year old with sleep cycle issues. My other child has occasional night terrors but that doesn't result in extended waking like op describes.



I didn't suggest it was, simply sharing my own experience. Some have suggested better routines, but for some kids they have other sleep issues going on that a routine or "ticket" for an incentive isn't going to solve.
[Post New]02/19/2021 23:11
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Omg. That sounds awful.

Definitely don't reward her with screentime, though. Either cosleep for now or have a little nest on the floor next to your bed she can sleep in after the first wake up.

What "nest"? Examples pls?
[Post New]02/19/2021 23:19
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Omg. That sounds awful.

Definitely don't reward her with screentime, though. Either cosleep for now or have a little nest on the floor next to your bed she can sleep in after the first wake up.

What "nest"? Examples pls?


Not PP but Like a comforter and blanket. Her own comfy spot.
[Post New]02/20/2021 12:10
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Anonymous
Is this a night terror?
[Post New]02/20/2021 12:16
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Anonymous
My 2 youngest needed a sippy cup of milk in their beds. They would half wake up, drink it & go back to sleep. One has outgrown it. One still does. I know this is horrific fir their teeth but I’ll pick my battles - sleep and sanity for the rest of the house outweighs the dental stuff at this point. I switched to 2% milk and it didn’t work. The youngest needs whole milk to feel full in thr night. I know it’s ridiculous but a snack before bed doesn’t work. I think she just has a crazy metabolism.
[Post New]02/20/2021 12:27
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Anonymous wrote:This is OP- thanks for all the replies, I genuinely appreciate it. To answer some questions:

1. The 7 PM bedtime is because she wakes up from 5-6 AM no matter what time she falls asleep. 9 PM? 5AM. 7 PM? 5 AM. So we try to do as early as possible to make sure she gets a decent stretch.

2. I don't think she's hungry or thirsty, she has a sippy cup full of water and doesn't ask for food or eat a massive breakfast when she wakes up. But tonight we are going to try to give her Greek yogurt and a banana before bed.

3. The issue isn't that we don't ~want~ to go in and soothe her, it's that it doesn't seem to help. If we stay in there she doesn't go back to sleep, if we leave she still screams. It's like a no win situation

I'm going to call some pediatric sleep specialists today and try to get in somewhere. Will also try to tank her up full of food tonight and give her some Advil.

Thanks for everyone's advice. We are just so sleep deprived. I. Any believe she's two and we're still up all night.


But do you see noticeable negative effects when she gets a shorter stretch at night? Or, if you put her to bed at 9, does she sleep through and wake up at 5?
I am in a similar boat, btw, so no answers. I'll be returning to this thread to see if anything works for you that I might try....
We've been trying for 6 nights to camp out in my son's room. He puts himself to sleep at the start of the night, but he is STILL waking up despite 6 nights of leaving him in the crib all night long. Last night he woke up and fussed for an hour before going back to sleep. I wouldn't mind half-the-night cosleeping, but we also tried that recently and had to stop because he would just squirm around in our bed instead of sleeping.
[Post New]02/20/2021 12:28
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:My 2 youngest needed a sippy cup of milk in their beds. They would half wake up, drink it & go back to sleep. One has outgrown it. One still does. I know this is horrific fir their teeth but I’ll pick my battles - sleep and sanity for the rest of the house outweighs the dental stuff at this point. I switched to 2% milk and it didn’t work. The youngest needs whole milk to feel full in thr night. I know it’s ridiculous but a snack before bed doesn’t work. I think she just has a crazy metabolism.


I'm a PP. I sort of want to try this for my son, but I'm worried that 1) the sippy cup will leak all over the sheets, 2) he won't be able to find the sippy cup at night and will start screaming, 3) he'll throw his sippy cup out of the crib and make us keep coming in to give it to him. Has any of this stuff happened to you?
[Post New]02/20/2021 19:42
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Night terrors?


https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/Patients-Families/Health-Library/HealthDocNew/Night-Terrors


This doesn't sound like night terrors. I'm the pp with the almost three year old with sleep cycle issues. My other child has occasional night terrors but that doesn't result in extended waking like op describes.


Agree, my DD had night terrors from 1 until about 6. It typically happened about 2 hours after she felt asleep. The wake time could be 5 minutes to about 1 hour or so, but never more than 2 hours.

[Post New]02/23/2021 08:53
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 2 youngest needed a sippy cup of milk in their beds. They would half wake up, drink it & go back to sleep. One has outgrown it. One still does. I know this is horrific fir their teeth but I’ll pick my battles - sleep and sanity for the rest of the house outweighs the dental stuff at this point. I switched to 2% milk and it didn’t work. The youngest needs whole milk to feel full in thr night. I know it’s ridiculous but a snack before bed doesn’t work. I think she just has a crazy metabolism.


I'm a PP. I sort of want to try this for my son, but I'm worried that 1) the sippy cup will leak all over the sheets, 2) he won't be able to find the sippy cup at night and will start screaming, 3) he'll throw his sippy cup out of the crib and make us keep coming in to give it to him. Has any of this stuff happened to you?


OMG. I'm PP ("I sort of want to try this..."). I DID try this, AND IT WORKED!!! I didn't do a sippy cup of milk, but I did a sippy cup of water, and my toddler who has NEVER SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT and was waking up MULTIPLE TIMES A NIGHT AT 21 MONTHS finally slept through the night for the past two nights!!!! He is a mouth breather, so this makes sense. I guess he was thirsty....

I also lined his crib with a big fuzzy fleece blanket, so maybe that helped too?

I hope other people read this and it helps them. This was actually a 100% miracle for me.

Also, I probably just jinxed myself by posting this and he'll be up 3 times tonight.....
[Post New]02/23/2021 09:12
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 2 youngest needed a sippy cup of milk in their beds. They would half wake up, drink it & go back to sleep. One has outgrown it. One still does. I know this is horrific fir their teeth but I’ll pick my battles - sleep and sanity for the rest of the house outweighs the dental stuff at this point. I switched to 2% milk and it didn’t work. The youngest needs whole milk to feel full in thr night. I know it’s ridiculous but a snack before bed doesn’t work. I think she just has a crazy metabolism.


I'm a PP. I sort of want to try this for my son, but I'm worried that 1) the sippy cup will leak all over the sheets, 2) he won't be able to find the sippy cup at night and will start screaming, 3) he'll throw his sippy cup out of the crib and make us keep coming in to give it to him. Has any of this stuff happened to you?


My kids had a baby bottle near their bed with milk until 3 or so. They would drink it most days. Absolutely no issues with teeth or anything at all. This fear of getting cavities from drinking milk is ridiculous.
Daughter and sister of dentists
[Post New]02/23/2021 09:14
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 2 youngest needed a sippy cup of milk in their beds. They would half wake up, drink it & go back to sleep. One has outgrown it. One still does. I know this is horrific fir their teeth but I’ll pick my battles - sleep and sanity for the rest of the house outweighs the dental stuff at this point. I switched to 2% milk and it didn’t work. The youngest needs whole milk to feel full in thr night. I know it’s ridiculous but a snack before bed doesn’t work. I think she just has a crazy metabolism.


I'm a PP. I sort of want to try this for my son, but I'm worried that 1) the sippy cup will leak all over the sheets, 2) he won't be able to find the sippy cup at night and will start screaming, 3) he'll throw his sippy cup out of the crib and make us keep coming in to give it to him. Has any of this stuff happened to you?


My kids had a baby bottle near their bed with milk until 3 or so. They would drink it most days. Absolutely no issues with teeth or anything at all. This fear of getting cavities from drinking milk is ridiculous.
Daughter and sister of dentists


And to add, I have seen plenty of kids with cavities that don’t drink milk at night and (supposedly) limit sugar during the day. Moms, if you let your 5, 6, 7 year old brush their teeth, they are much more likely to get cavities.
[Post New]02/23/2021 10:31
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 2 youngest needed a sippy cup of milk in their beds. They would half wake up, drink it & go back to sleep. One has outgrown it. One still does. I know this is horrific fir their teeth but I’ll pick my battles - sleep and sanity for the rest of the house outweighs the dental stuff at this point. I switched to 2% milk and it didn’t work. The youngest needs whole milk to feel full in thr night. I know it’s ridiculous but a snack before bed doesn’t work. I think she just has a crazy metabolism.


I'm a PP. I sort of want to try this for my son, but I'm worried that 1) the sippy cup will leak all over the sheets, 2) he won't be able to find the sippy cup at night and will start screaming, 3) he'll throw his sippy cup out of the crib and make us keep coming in to give it to him. Has any of this stuff happened to you?


OMG. I'm PP ("I sort of want to try this..."). I DID try this, AND IT WORKED!!! I didn't do a sippy cup of milk, but I did a sippy cup of water, and my toddler who has NEVER SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT and was waking up MULTIPLE TIMES A NIGHT AT 21 MONTHS finally slept through the night for the past two nights!!!! He is a mouth breather, so this makes sense. I guess he was thirsty....

I also lined his crib with a big fuzzy fleece blanket, so maybe that helped too?

I hope other people read this and it helps them. This was actually a 100% miracle for me.

Also, I probably just jinxed myself by posting this and he'll be up 3 times tonight.....


Gotta love a DCUM success story! I hope this trend continues!
[Post New]02/23/2021 22:41
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How much screen time are all these kids getting?
[Post New]02/24/2021 10:19
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:How much screen time are all these kids getting?


Why? Do you think that the number of times kids wake up screaming is correlated to screen time? This is crazy.

My 2 year old used to wake up 3-4 times a night until a few months ago has no screen time (except for talking to grandparents). This is ridiculous
[Post New]02/24/2021 12:47
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How much screen time are all these kids getting?


Why? Do you think that the number of times kids wake up screaming is correlated to screen time? This is crazy.

My 2 year old used to wake up 3-4 times a night until a few months ago has no screen time (except for talking to grandparents). This is ridiculous


I'm one of the PPs and we are the same. Only once a week zoom with grandparents.
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