23 month old with nightmares every night?

We have similar situation with our now 3 year old son when he was much younger. He was screaming with his eyes closed every night, so we thought there was something seriously wrong. Maybe you should consider seeing a new doctor because ours told us that what our son was having were sometimes reffered to as "night terrors". The key factor to reducing/eliminating these is dependant upon making certainthat your child is completely awakened when experiencing them. It is similar to sleep-walking. giving him a sippy cup without him fully waking up will just allow the terrors to persist. Formerly people were told that you should never wake a sleep walker but recent studies are showing that making certain a sleep walker is fully awke can decrease sleep walking episodes. When he starts to scream, go get him and wake him up, not awake to a drousy drunken state, but fully awake and aware, even if it means putting him under a shower, once you know he is fully awake, explain to him that he just had a bad dream and give him something to drink, then tell him he wil be ok and put him back to bed. When we followed these steps the terrors went from being everyday to a few days a week and now he maybe has one every other month. Maybe he is not experiencing night terrors, because I am not there every night with him as you are, but from the way you describe it, I think that you should seriously consider that as a possibility and definitly get an opinion from another doctor.

My son experienced similar night terrors around the same age. Like with most night terrors, he was often still asleep and unaware of what was going on around him. We found that he would often not even realize we were there if we went to him. We found it worked best if we went to him, offered him comfort (a hand on his back, soft spoken words, etc.), and tried to settle him. Sometimes he settled right down and would go back to sleep easily. Other times he would continue crying, thrashing around, etc. We would usually close his door and leave him be, he would fall back asleep after a while on his own. The odd time he would wake up fully and then call out for us. At that time we would sometimes go in again and try to settle him. I found when we tried things like taking him to the living room, or our room, it sometimes worked to settle him, but then it was harder to settle him the next night without doing that and soon we had to do something like that every night. I believe it's best to avoid getting the child too used to things like that if you don't plan to continue it. My son is now 35 months old and is a champion sleeper for the most part. So as tiring as this is, remember, he likely won't be doing it in a few months and you'll sleep through the night at some point again! Good luck.

It does happen, its called night terrors. My oldest child went through it about 2 years old, and my three year old daughter is now having them.

It is a normal phase of childhood. It will pass, just like when you thought he would never sleep through the night when he was a newborn.

I know that doesn't make it any easier when you have to get up the next morning to go to work.

It sounds like he is having night terrors. I would continue to get up with him to help him get back to sleep so you can too.

Yes, it is night terrors, which is very common for that age group. It is something they also outgrow.

it sound's like he has evening tarer's my littel sitter has them and she wake's up screaming and walk's awround and communicate's to people i rilly scarry i'm hoping your newborn get's more beneficial advantageous !!!!!!!!!! get some sleep lol