So my 5 yr old (almost 6) has just recently stopped napping. She has always needed that extra sleep even when most kids her age stopped napping long ago. Anyway, she can't fall asleep during the day anymore so she just has quiet time now, listens to stories on cd, looks at books, draws/colors, does games, puzzles... Well for the last 4 nights in a row now she's woken up about an hour or 2 after going to bed screaming or crying or mumbling strange things. She "sees" things that aren't there (huge spiders...) and just is way out of it. We've figured out that she's actually not really "awake" but will talk to us and answer us. We usually have to bring her out into the light and get a drink or something to really wake her up or it just continues. After that she goes right back to sleep and doesn't remember any of it later. This seems to only happen when she hasn't had a nap that day. Is it an adjustment period, is she overtired? Anyone have DC who also do/did this? Is there anything we should do? It's just creepy and disturbing to have her wake up yelling and then be all out of it like that.
Oh and I used to do this I guess. My dh says I would wake up in the middle of the night seeing things, like people in our doorway, or huge spiders in the heater vents...and then wouldn't remember it later. He just remembered that I used to do it but it only lasted for like 3 months or so maybe when I was pregnant with dd2.
Oh and I used to do this I guess. My dh says I would wake up in the middle of the night seeing things, like people in our doorway, or huge spiders in the heater vents...and then wouldn't remember it later. He just remembered that I used to do it but it only lasted for like 3 months or so maybe when I was pregnant with dd2.
