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<p>My DD (26 months) appears to be having night terrors. She sleeps in her own room and has since she was several months old. We always go to her in the night though if she wakes and sometimes sleep in her room with her when she's sick or teething (she's in her own double bed). </p>
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<p>Last night was awful though. She has started saying she doesn't want to go to bed and being really irrational/crying at bed time. It took half an hour last night to understand that she wanted her dolly in the doll bed beside her bed and once we figured that out she calmed down and went to sleep. She then woke up 4 hours later screaming bloody murder. She was completely inconsolable. She was thrashing around kicking and screaming. We tried everything....laying with, trying to reason with her (she kept saying she wanted her baby to lay next to her but when we laid the baby there she flipped out again), picking her up and walking around the room with her, bringing her other stuffed animals that she loves, walking her around the house to figure out what she wanted/needed. Nothing worked. Finally, at the end of our emotional rope, we had to lay her back down in bed and retreat to our room to figure out what to do next. I was sobbing, my DH was extremely frustrated, and 5 minutes later my DD fell soundly asleep for the rest of the night. </p>
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<p>So back to my question... do you go to your child when they are having terrors? I'm assuming that's what last night was, but now I'm at a loss as to how to handle them. If she calmed down once we left, should we just let her do her thing and put herself back to sleep? </p>
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<p>Last night was awful though. She has started saying she doesn't want to go to bed and being really irrational/crying at bed time. It took half an hour last night to understand that she wanted her dolly in the doll bed beside her bed and once we figured that out she calmed down and went to sleep. She then woke up 4 hours later screaming bloody murder. She was completely inconsolable. She was thrashing around kicking and screaming. We tried everything....laying with, trying to reason with her (she kept saying she wanted her baby to lay next to her but when we laid the baby there she flipped out again), picking her up and walking around the room with her, bringing her other stuffed animals that she loves, walking her around the house to figure out what she wanted/needed. Nothing worked. Finally, at the end of our emotional rope, we had to lay her back down in bed and retreat to our room to figure out what to do next. I was sobbing, my DH was extremely frustrated, and 5 minutes later my DD fell soundly asleep for the rest of the night. </p>
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<p>So back to my question... do you go to your child when they are having terrors? I'm assuming that's what last night was, but now I'm at a loss as to how to handle them. If she calmed down once we left, should we just let her do her thing and put herself back to sleep? </p>