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Our 3 year old has very routine episodes in the night where he wakes and becomes very distressed. It’s not exactly a “shoot bolt upright out of a nightmare” type of behaviour, which makes us question if these are really night terrors or something else. Sometimes he will stir and murmur and slowly build to screams, other times it can be more immediate.
He still has a bottle of warm milk as we’ve found this normally soothes and regulates him if he’s upset. Sure enough, if we give him one during these episodes, he guzzles it in one sitting, and 9/10 rolls over and falls soundly asleep as if nothing has happened.
This will normally happen twice a night, fairly predictably every 3-4 hours.
Does anyone have any similar experience? Whilst it’s helpful that the milk calms him I worry if it’s the wrong thing to do, or if the effect it has is actually indicative of another problem?
My son use to have the same issue at that age and at the time he was non verbal and wasn’t able to say what he was dreaming.
Now that he’s 8 he still remembers the nightmares and shares them with me.
Try and comfort him and work on helping him feel safe. I would pay more attention to anything that might be scaring him. At that age it can be something simple that they need more understanding with or it could be something bigger. It just really takes time to figure out.
Either way work on helping them feel safe and secure that’s all we can do for the until we can figure out more.
They are protected by us. That conversation helps ease my son knowing he’s safe with mama.
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