by chicka-monkey » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:33 am
Those night terrors are the worst!!! I took her the ER and that's how I learned about them. They told me, as children lose weight after surgery, they burn some of their fat they have. Some of that fat contains the anesthesia medicine that was used for the surgery, which gives them night terrors. They said any drug or medicine you took is in your fat, and stays there. That combined with the trauma of the surgery gives them night terrors. Skylar had them about one week. They were awful! She would wake up every half hour, SCREAMING!!! She wasn't in pain. I just had her sleep with me and as soon as she woke up, I would turn tv on (Baby Einstein dvd) and talk to her in a regular voice and walk the floor telling her it's ok, ok. Etc. It seemed to calm her down when I did that. I tried many things! They lasted for about one week. One VERY LONG week. Not much you can do but comfort him, and let him know you are there. Good luck with that, those are horrible! I never even heard about them, until after I took her to the ER.
She got to eating normal, when I didn't have to feed her from the syrnge. She wanted her bottle. Even after the 10 days, when I gave her the bottle, she felt uncomfortable with it. I would probably say it took her about 14 days to finally eat normal. But it got better each day.
Carrie (user name chicka-monkey)
DD - 6/9/96
DS - 7/6/04
DD - 11/3/05 ~ bilateral cleft lip & palate ~