The fever is down, but Nathan had his first bought of night terrors last night. 15-20 minutes of shrieking in terror, struggling so hard he was close to knocking me or Meredith off the bed as we took turns holding him.
If Nathan never had that again, that would be OK with me.
Posted by Mike at August 29, 2006 11:56 AMMy Neuroscience professor's kid had frequent night terrors. She said they typically lasted about 20 minutes. Then one night she decided that she might as well watch tv while her kid was keeping her up. Her kid calmed down in about 5 minutes. From then on, whenever her kid started having a night terror, she would turn on the tv, and it seemed to help.
She said she has no scientific backing for this result, but seeing how many studies there have been about how tv affects your brain state, it doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Weird. We are, of course, hoping that these aren't frequent.
Also, we don't have a TV in the bedroom.
Posted by: Mike on August 29, 2006 08:58 PM