Night Terrors, Night lights and Knights in Shinning Armor

For the past year and a half my Daughter has had the worst “night terrors”. She wakes up screaming bloody murder, dripping with sweat and shaking. The first time it happened I did what any new Mother does, I freaked the hell out. As soon as I heard her crying I jumped out of my bed and ran across the hall to her room, and picked her up and cuddled her. She did this for three nights in a row, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on until a friend of mine and my Daughter's Doctor explained it. I didn't even know she was old enough to start dreaming (I don't know at what age babies and kids start dreaming) and I didn't know it was going to be an ongoing thing at the time. Now my Daughter is 19months old and we are still having to deal with night terrors. I can honestly say that “Night Terror” incidents have dwindled considerably since we have moved from our house into an apartment.

I have found that the easiest way to help with the “Night Terrors” is a night light, not only does it help you not fall over the toys strewn about your child's room it's almost calming. My Daughter love's her night light and has more then once tried to use it as a toy to play with. It's wasn't until my Husband and I had been dealing with “Night Terror's” for about six months did we finally have the bright idea to get the night light. The one thing I find funny is that my Daughter is not (unlike most kids) dependent on the night light, she can sleep without it just fine and without incident. My husband and found out about or Daughter's non dependence with the night light shortly after we had moved into our apartment and had lost her night light amongst the boxes (Most of which are still piled up in the corner of the apartment still unpacked) and our Daughter was forced to sleep without the light for about a week, she had no night terrors during that whole week. Is was actually amazing.

So I have one of the greatest Knight's in shinning armor living with me and his name is Z. Z is my Daughter's Godfather and was there when she was born, he has turned out to be her Knight in Shinning Armor on more then a few occasion's. He has gotten up with her when she has had a night terror and has picked her up when she has fallen etc. My daughter has a routine for waking Z up in the morning, she knocks on his door and then runs her toy train into his door. My Husband is also my daughters Knight in Shinning Armor, as any little girls Daddy should be, although my Husband is gone for most of the day because he has to work, he still find's time to rescue the princess when he get's home. I literally cant wait for the day when my Daughter starts playing Tea party and dress up, because I can guarantee you that the men in my house are going to have some serious fun with that one. I foresee...pink tutu's and pinkie's in the air in the not to distant future.