Is My 14 Month Old Having Nightmares??

It could honestly be anything babies I believe have nightmares my daughter still wakes up cries, yells, and talks to herself at night and she's 18 months. My rule with her is unless she is screaming hestericly I leave her alone she fusses herself back to sleep. But we went through stages where she would get so upset we had to go get her. We descovered she was afraid of the dark, so she sleeps with a light on and most times is ok, we also put some stuffties in the bed and a pillow (only to be done when baby is plenty old enough) so if she wakes up she can play with them. Every kid is different and he is probably going through a faze where he just needs to have you cuddle him for a few and hes fine it all should pass soon. Good Luck

I have a daughter also, 17 months today and she just a few weeks ago, started waking up in the night after sleeping all night for over a year now. I realized after a few night of waking up screaming, that she was thrusty(SP). So, now I put a water sippy cup in the crib with her, alone with her pillow and one stuffed(little)toy. It has been working great, I hear her over the montior every night drinking her water at 3am or so. I might still wake up to her drinking but at least I don't have to get out of bed!! lol Just a thought. Good luck!

Hi, E.! It could be separation anxiety. 12-18 months of age is usually when separation anxiety rears its ugly head in little ones, but you have to remember, IT'S ONLY A PHASE AND IT WILL PASS. It could be that your son wakes up and gets scared because he doesn't know where you are. My doctor told us to try leaving our daughter alone in her crib for 5-10 minutes once or twice during the day when she's not tired with some books and toys and encouraging her to play by herself. If she cried, we would call out to her from the other room and reassure her that while she couldn't see us, we were still close by. Sometimes this is the only way I have time to take a shower during the day! Good luck!

My son has done that too. About the same time about 15-18 mos. I don't know if it was separation anxiety or what... but it seemed to coincide with new skills. My son didn't walk until 16 mos. Each time he would learn something new, crawling, walking, ect it would seem to impact his sleep. It usually only lasted a few weeks and then he would be back to normal. You can try a night light-- but really the only thing you can do is comfort him when he cries since he is too young to reason with yet.

Sounds like something the doctors call night terrors. It's not a nightmare so much as awakening with that dreaded feeling of not knowing what's going on. It's common at this age. It's often a sort of fear of the dark. My son got these around the summer time, because he went to bed when the sun was still up, and would wake in the night to a dark room. We found that a nightlight, and softly playing radio helped alot.