Night Terrors, Oh My!!

No one could probably tell this sweet little face along with his parents have had many sleepless nights lately! Last night will go in the record books! Poor Crawford has been waking up between 1 and 2 every night for a few weeks! We thought he was wanting to get in bed with us but still thought it was strange how he woke up in the middle of the night! Well today we decided to take him to the doctor, b/c what began as a diaper rash (only the 2nd time Crawford has had a diaper rash) spread to his entire body! Little red bumps everywhere! I wanted to make sure that it was nothing contagious. Come to find out it's not, he had a little virus and sometimes a rash comes with it. He also had an ear infection in his tubeless ear & 5 teeth that have started to break through. Wow!! We only thought there were 3! And on top of all of that we think the waking in the night might be NIGHT TERRORS!! Which makes perfect sense to us!! Crawford woke up last night at his usual time! 2AM! Screaming!! He did not stop for at least an hour. He was not crying he was screaming and there was nothing we could do. I have never seen anything like it! We were scared and could not figure out what was wrong! Finally he feel asleep for a few hours! After talking with our wonderful Doctor today he thinks it sounds like Crawford may be having night terrors! Which if I understand him correctly they never really are awake when they start screaming and crying. He has no idea when he wakes up in the morning that it even happened. But let me just tell you! It happened and he was out of control!! Dr. Paynter gave us some good information and some suggestions to try to break his sleep cycle and hopefully the night terrors! I'll keep you posted how it works! For now...Crawford is napping so I better go rest!!