Does my baby sound like he is having night terrors?
Our daughter suffered from night terrors from about 1 year to 7 years old. If he wakes up screaming about 30 to 60 minutes after going to sleep, and doesn’t remember it, it is likely night terrors. We found that she was more likely to have a NT when she was very tired, so she took naps right after school; this helped for a while. At one point she was having AT LEAST one each night. This website has a LOT of information; it really helped us: http://www.nightterrors.org/ We bought every book we could find on the subject. A few of them talked about “prompted awakenings” (been several years. I hope that is the correct term). This is where you put the child to bed, wait until a few minutes before he would have a NT, wake him up (must be completely awake – we made ours use the restroom, them watch tv for a few minutes), then put them back to bed. Do this EVERY night for a month, then stop. For us, it was like a switch. She stopped, an
