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Does anyone have any experience with infants and night terrors?
Here is what happened this morning:
I work nights and at 6am my wife called asking if I could leave early, something was wrong with Mason and she didn't know what was going on. She was upset and I could hear him screaming in the background like he was in pain. She said "I can't get him to open his eyes and he won't stop screaming, I don't know what to do, he won't wake up." If she held him to her chest he was fine and went right to sleep. If she tried to lay him down he would start screaming and curl up in the fetal position. It was heart breaking.
So I get home and had to check him out for myself. To me it wasn't logically making sense, but I didn't know about night terrors. In my job I'm a troubleshooter be it with servers going down or the internal or external website, whatever, so automatically I start troubleshooting my son like he's a technical issue. What has changed in his environment over the last 12 hours to cause this was my first thought. The wife and I started reviewing what his day was like yesterday, what he ate, who he came in contact with, did anything change. Nothing was out of the ordinary except he came in contact with my wife's youngest sister who had come back from a week at college. The college campus has already had 2500 reports of flu like symptoms so I automatically thought that was it right there.
We call the on-call doctor who said, try to nurse him. We did that, and it was freaky. He latched on right away, opened his eyes and looked right at my wife. His eyes were all glazed over and pupils were really big. He had no reaction though. Usually when he first wakes up he's happy and smiling. After 1 minute of nursing he clenched his eyes shut and started screaming again. Time to go to the doctor.
So 8am comes and we are in the pediatricians office, he's still either passed out cold sleeping or screaming his head off with his eyes closed. Nothing can seem to wake him up. After the nurse does all his vitals, another nurse came in with a pulseox machine to do the oxegen level reading in his blood. She clamped the sensor on his finger and about 2 seconds later his eyes opened, he looked up at me holding him and then started smiling. OMG my boy is back
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I was like "WTF this is the craziest shit I've ever experienced." The doctor thinks he could be fighting a cold and the night terror could have been induced from that.
I've been reading about night terrors for most of today, its crazy shit. I hope this was a one off, but thought I would see if any of you guys with kids have experience with this.
Here is what happened this morning:
I work nights and at 6am my wife called asking if I could leave early, something was wrong with Mason and she didn't know what was going on. She was upset and I could hear him screaming in the background like he was in pain. She said "I can't get him to open his eyes and he won't stop screaming, I don't know what to do, he won't wake up." If she held him to her chest he was fine and went right to sleep. If she tried to lay him down he would start screaming and curl up in the fetal position. It was heart breaking.
So I get home and had to check him out for myself. To me it wasn't logically making sense, but I didn't know about night terrors. In my job I'm a troubleshooter be it with servers going down or the internal or external website, whatever, so automatically I start troubleshooting my son like he's a technical issue. What has changed in his environment over the last 12 hours to cause this was my first thought. The wife and I started reviewing what his day was like yesterday, what he ate, who he came in contact with, did anything change. Nothing was out of the ordinary except he came in contact with my wife's youngest sister who had come back from a week at college. The college campus has already had 2500 reports of flu like symptoms so I automatically thought that was it right there.
We call the on-call doctor who said, try to nurse him. We did that, and it was freaky. He latched on right away, opened his eyes and looked right at my wife. His eyes were all glazed over and pupils were really big. He had no reaction though. Usually when he first wakes up he's happy and smiling. After 1 minute of nursing he clenched his eyes shut and started screaming again. Time to go to the doctor.
So 8am comes and we are in the pediatricians office, he's still either passed out cold sleeping or screaming his head off with his eyes closed. Nothing can seem to wake him up. After the nurse does all his vitals, another nurse came in with a pulseox machine to do the oxegen level reading in his blood. She clamped the sensor on his finger and about 2 seconds later his eyes opened, he looked up at me holding him and then started smiling. OMG my boy is back
.I was like "WTF this is the craziest shit I've ever experienced." The doctor thinks he could be fighting a cold and the night terror could have been induced from that.
I've been reading about night terrors for most of today, its crazy shit. I hope this was a one off, but thought I would see if any of you guys with kids have experience with this.
