Night terrors

Does anyone have advice on kids and night terrors? I think my 2 yo is having them. We will hear her screaming and crying and find her sound asleep. Usually if I pick her up and rock her a few mins. she'll wake up and tell me she is ready to go back to sleep. Her big sister never had them so this is all new to me.

I still have them as an adult, although not with the frequency I had them as a child. I think you're doing the right thing. I know all 3 of my kids have had them at different times, and they also sleep walk at times (as do I). I just held them until they stopped screaming, and if they're sleep walking, directed them back towards bed.

My youngest did this too - but she seems to have stopped it now (she's 3). She was having them nearly every night for about 5 months, and then suddenly it just stopped happening. She would be screaming and throwing herself around in her cot for about 20 minutes - and it was impossible to wake her up or make any kind of contact with her. We just lifted her out and held her so she wouldn't hurt herself (I got a few kicks in the face though), and then after about 20 minutes or so she would just go back to sleep as if nothing had happened. She didn't seem to remember it when she woke up either. I think the only thing you can do is hold them until it stops, and cross your fingers that she'll grow out of it.

My DD1 has them. For a while it was every night, about an hour after she went to sleep. They are decreasing in frequency now that she is older. They started around 2 1/2. The only thing we could do is make sure she didn't hurt herself well thrashing around, and talk calmly to her that she was safe in her bed and that everything was ok. Good luck, they can be very frightening as a parent, but kids don't seem to remember them at all the next day.

Mason had them too around that age, but rarely remembered them in the morning and outgrew them eventually. Natalie never had them.

Giulia used to have. I gave her homeopathics and she never had them again. Doc said to avoid any contact with her. Avoid even talk to her b/c they are in a stage between sleep and awake and we can't know exactly what the children are seeing or listening at that moment. Even a low sound could be like a something very scaring/awful to them. He told me to stay close, but not too much and only make a contact in case of: she's hurting herself - into a minimum necessary. He told me it's very usual at 1-3 ages and used to be gone soon, but children who have night terrors at this age probably will have on teenage too Is like a growing/developing fast issue I guess...