Anyone whose has read this blog since the very beginning might remember all the suffering we went through with Ethan’s night terrors (which finally stopped before Ian was born). Our suffering, not his:) I’ve decided that Ian must be having night terrors too. You’d think I would be able to realize it right away after having gone through it with Ethan but I finally just figured it out. He has always cried in his sleep but lately it has been more like screaming. For a while we blamed it on his ear infections or his teething, which some of it may have been that. But lately it’s been the same time each night. A few times I went in thinking he needed Advil for teething and ended up waking him up and then he was confused and wanted to be up the rest of the night. (One of the no no’s with night terrors is to never wake them up-I ended up being up with him for 3 hours in the middle of the night). So since I realized he may be having night terrors, I’ve not rushed in when he was screaming and watched him on the monitor and he was behaving the same way Ethan did with his night terrors and within 5 minutes he stopped. One of the factors that can trigger an episode is not getting enough sleep and Ian is prone to either wake up early in the morning or not take a long enough nap so there’s a good chance we’ll be dealing with this some more. At least we know what to expect this time around…(need I refer back to a previous post when Ethan had a night terror every hour for five hours one night?)