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I have a situation I need help with…my 3yod sleeps with us in our bed (no judgement please). For the past couple of weeks she has been waking up screaming (not fully awake, usually complaining about something one of her sisters has done/taking away), kicking (me), and grinding her teeth. She’s on a 95% real food diet, not much grains or sugar, lots of fats, except when she visits her grandparents, but these problems do not get worse after visiting with them. Neither one of us is getting much sleep. Is there anything anyone can suggest to help? Thank you for your time!
Hi, I don’t think I have the answer but just wanted to say my daughter is nearly 3 and about 5-6 months ago went through a time of waking around twice in the night/ screaming / complaining she couldn’t find something/ sibling done something etc. she doesn’t co-sleep as I was then heavily pregnant (she left our bed/cotnest when she was 14 months). There was no change in routine or diet. I couldn’t work it out but guessed she had been dreaming. After around 2 months it just stopped happening, I used to go in to comfort her as soon as I woke but she was already distressed by the time I got there. I wondered about night terrors because she seemed confused but after reading about them at the time, it seems she wouldn’t have found me comforting if it were a night terror. She never re-collected anything in the morning. In retrospect she was developing lots at the time with her speech and probably more physically tired also as it was summer and there was more playing outdoors. I guessed her brain was just more “active” but that’s just my theory!
Anyway if I mentioned it to husbands family or friends to see if they had similar experiences they mentioned different sleep problems and gave me their usual advice “don’t comfort her, it will encourage her” etc but as usual I listened (hopefully respectfully), but ignored them! And comforted her when she cried but it just stopped happening. When comforting I tried to wake her a little before she went back to sleep and we had a brief chat/cuddle – usually involved looking out of window and confirming it was still night-time and explaining where she was, who I was, that her brother is asleep etc
I know this prob doesn’t help as I didn’t do anything, but thankfully since new baby was born hasn’t reoccurred and thought I’d share my experience . . . you are welcome to ignore