My Child is a Sleepwalker?
- August 4th, 2008 12:48 pm
Recently, Allie has started sleepwalking. I find this both fascinating and scary. A three year old sleepwalking? I KNOW!
When I first discovered her traipsing around, it was when she stumbled into the living room and walked around for a few moments without ever acknowledging my presence. She just walked and walked.
I slowly guided her back to her bedroom and eased her into bed.
The living room sleepwalking occurred again in the same manner.
I usually sit up for a while after my husband and daughter have gone to bed either writing or enjoying the quiet and time to myself. So luckily, I’ve been awake for her little adventures.
The most humorous of the sleepwalkings was when I found her in the bathroom a few nights ago walking in circles and screaming something about zebra cakes. And while Little Debbie’s Zebra Cakes are most certainly sleepwalking and scream worthy, it was still a little creepy.
Until I found her doing it, I had never fathomed the idea that a small child would sleep walk. It just hadn’t crossed my mind. I know that sounds crazy, and perhaps even stupid, but it had just never occurred to me that I might have to deal with a sleepwalker who is only three feet tall.
Of course, I began researching. In all situations, but particularly in those that arise as a parent, it is my first reaction to begin researching things that are unfamiliar. A sleepwalking toddler certainly qualifies unfamiliar, and so, I have spent days looking up things.
If you’re curious, a lot of the findings showed that in some cases sleepwalking has seemed to be a genetic or inherited factor. And if you’ve been reading for a while, you might know that my brother sleepwalks and pees on things.
I can handle the sleepwalking. But I hope Allie doesn’t start peeing on everything.
Additionally, I found that lots of children often sleep walk, but usually outgrow the problem by 15. 15? that would be twelve more years of this stuff. Hopefully, this was just a short little affair with sleepwalking. If you’re curious, a person qualifies as a severe sleepwalker if they do it more than once per week.
All I have to say is Please let this go away. It makes me nauseous thinking about it. Yes, I know it isn’t the end of the world. But what if she sleep walks down the stairs? or finds her way outside? or runs into something and knocks herself out? or gives me an anxiety attack with all of this worrying?
I am not a worrier. In fact, I generally reside in my own little world of calm. Like a stoner, except not stoned. Crap. I’m so worried that I just compared myself to a stoner. Ugh. I’m ending this post here.
August 4th, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
I used to sleepwalk as a child. Once I almost opened the door to walk down the stairs at my childhood house but luckily my mom caught me. Now I just have night terrors ((rolleyes))
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August 4th, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
My baby brother would sleepwalk whenever he took asthma medication. He was about 4 years old when he was found walking down the street at 3:00 am! Scary.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
You need to get a copy of PATRICK THE SOMNOMBULIST to read with her.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
My 3 1/2 yr old does this too. Only he usually just gets up, goes out to the couch (or the floor, whatever) and goes back to sleep. I’m only worried that I’ll step on him one day. But then, he’s never screamed in his sleep about snack cakes.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
I worry about my daughter getting hurt all the time! she scares me when she gets up, she’s even started sleeping with her eyes open, that’s the worst
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
My ex-step-sister used to sleepwalk like CRAZY from about age 4…and she’d talk loudly in her sleep and I even had an argument with her while she was dead-asleep. It usually seemed to happen when we had had a busy day, so she was presumably over-tired. Of course I was only 6 years older than her and my dad divorced her mother when I was 14 so I don’t know if she grew out of it. But it was interesting while I was there to see it (of course I wasn’t her mother, but that lady didn’t seem concerned, either).
Hope she grows out of it much sooner than estimated in your research.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
I have never heard of young kids sleepwalking, always teens and adults.
That would be a bit funny and a bit scary all at once.
Good luck hon!
I hope she outgrows it soon.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
It is odd to see your child sleep-walking, but it gets frightening, too, when you begin to think about what could happen. Good luck.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
My three year old thankfully does not sleepwalk but does have night mares where she screams out about spiders, Elmo and princesses. Best of luck…and oh yeah…so not a worrier either but that would bother me.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Are you sure she wasn’t screaming about someone eating the last of the Little Debbie Zebra Cakes? Has someone we know been doing a little nibbling along with the night time reading and writing? Just sayin’.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
I was a sleepwalker as a child, too. Not too frequently, but enough that my mom still teases me about the time I got up and insisted that I needed to have a bath and it was all she could do to convince me that we could wait until the morning for baths. Once when I was sleeping over at a friend’s house I woke up on the living room floor in the morning. But all in all, not too traumatizing. I never ever hurt myself while sleepwalking. And I did outgrow it. I can’t remember doing it after maybe age 13? Although I still talk in my sleep. But so does my hubby and we both enjoy mocking each other about it.
My daughter occasionally has a night-time wander. Usually just to no place in particular. And when we ask what she wants she usually says “I don’t know” and we just steer her back to bed via the bathroom. She’s never tripped or hut herself yet and she’s 5. This may not be too reassuring but try not to let it get you too worked up.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
Wow, look at that picture! She has beautiful eyes.
I personally have never sleepwalked and hope I don’t ever start!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
We have suspected my son of sleepwalking for years. We would find him in weird places in the morning that couldn’t be explained.
We have since installed a gate at the top of the stairs and we have no intention of taking it down. We don’t talk about it with him since he doesn’t know he is doing it.
We haven’t discovered any strange odors in the house, so we don’t think he is peeing in strange places…
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August 4th, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
I think I read somewhere that sleepwalkers don’t normally fall down stairs or otherwise do the things you are worried about, but that they WILL open doors and walk outside; might want to invest in a high chain lock or something to prevent that. And it WILL go away; my daughter who is now almost 16 used to sleepwalk fairly often, maybe a couple of times a month, but now has only done it a few times in the last year. So there is hope. My others don’t sleepwalk, but the middle boy sleep TALKS something terrible. Because he also never shuts up in the waking hours, either, it is like 22 hours of nonstop chatter.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
When we were younger, we would wake my little brothers up from the couch to go to bed and they would do random things on the way to bed, like have the sudden urge to clean up the living room. Very weird. And they wouldn’t remember it in the morning.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
I can’t recall if I ever sleep walked. I fell down into a flower box once, but I assure you, I wasn’t walking.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
I slept walked a lot when I was in high school. My three year old son sleepwalks, too. Not as much as he used to but definitely does it. It scares the living crap out of me! We finally put a gate on his door that he can’t figure out how to open when sleepwalking but can get out of when awake.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
I walked in my sleep as a child, which I heard is caused by some form of anxiety or traumatic experience. My mom did find me outside; in the family car, under the front porch, all over the damn place. I can’t imagine what I would do to wake and not ind my kids in their beds.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
I also have a red-headed 3-year old, and he has had one sleep walking incident. He came into our bedroom whining in the middle of the night. He walked right over to the garbage can in the corner of the room and started to drop his pants. As I start yelling at him to stop because that’s not the toilet, he begins to pee in our garbage can. When he’s done, he pulls up his pants, and I lead him into the bathroom to wash his hands. Then, he walked over to our bed, crawled up in it, tucked his legs underneath him with his butt up in the air, and went to sleep. When I told him about it the next day, he looked at me like I had grown a second head. How dare I accuse him of peeing in the garbage can! How utterly ridiculous!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Oh yeah. This would scare the crap out of me. Too many things to worry about. My brain would explode.
My oldest son did it just a few times. I did research too and found that very young kids tend to sleepwalk if they are overtired. The occurances seemed to happen during times we had kept him up late on vacation or over a few days in a row. Now it doesn’t happen at all. He was around 3 when it happened and is now 5. So hopefully it is over with. ??
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Thanks a lot. Now I’m hungry for Zebra Cakes. Mmmm!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
I was a sleepwalker until my teens. I used to wake up though, poised to pee on the dining room table.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
My husband does this too – although he always goes for the Jack Daniels. Only kidding about the Jack… I find my husband on the phone or sometimes making something to eat late at night after we have gone to bed. It’s kinda funny for an adult, but I would worry more if it was my child too… I hope it ends soon!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Damn, I’ve had this window open for awhile so I bet you are freaked. HAHA. I slept walked as a kid and fell halfway down the stairs and DID try to escape once. Just telling you this so you can take precautions!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
I was engaged to a guy who peed on everything while sleep walking though I have to admit, he was drunk most of the time.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
My middle daughter is a sleepwalker – it started just after she turned two. She’s 24 now and will still ocassionally walk in her sleep.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
There are no sleepwalkers in our house, thank God, but that sentence, “Like a stoner, except not stoned,” cracks me up!
And now I am craving a Little Debbie zebra cake.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
I would be freaked out by this too. I hope it goes away. And if not, talk to a doctor? Maybe something can be done? Fingers crossed!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
I have found henry sleep walking a few times… so scary! I hope that it is a short faze! Thanks for the comment on my site! I love new visitors!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Ya, um extreme sleepwalker until I was about 18. Then it scaled back to only a few times a year. But, though I never fell down anywhere, once when I was 15, I got on the bus to go to school – two hours early. I suggest a safety gate for the stairs and a chain for the doors.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
That IS totally scary!! You might have to invest in some child gates again!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
She could be a sleep talker, or sleep laugher, or sleep tickler, or sleep kick-saver like my husband.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
I once dated a severe sleepwalker, in high school. His parents just installed a little alarm, at knee level–not really even an alarm, but just one of those DING-DONG! light beam things that go off when you walk through the door of a small store. It would alert them to the fact that he was on the move before he could get to any high places (they had a loft sort of place, so I could see why they would be nervous).
If nothing else, it might ease your mind.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
Oh dear. Well, hopefully she’ll grow out of it sooner rather than later. I guess just be very vigilant about locking doors and putting things out of her reach? Maybe get a kid-gate/dog gate for the stairs so she can’t fall down them?
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August 4th, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Oh heck! I hope it goes away for you! If not, lots and lots of baby gates!!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
I haven’t done it in a while, but I remember when I was 15 I woke up in the car with my baseball uniform on (after being completely asleep in my unders just hours before) – I remember I was dreaming about baseball and seem to recall it was because I thought I was up to bat and had to get to the ball field to hit, after all, how could I be up to bat while still in bed?
I do have 2 young ones and actually that does sound a little un-nerving though, who knows where they could sleepwalk to!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
My oldest sleep walks a bit, but only when disturbed in her sleep.
She does it much less already than she did a while back.
Baby gates!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
Put high locks on the doors. I actually left the house when I was 7.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Well I have one who occasionally sleepwalks. I am not sure how often it happens because I am a heavy sleeper but she always makes it back to her bed. She’s fifteen now and has been practicing her nightwalking for many years. Hope she doesn’t make a career out of it.
And I have a sleep-laugher. My youngest, who is 7, gets fits of giggles. His eyes are wide open and he even will converse when in this state. His gaze is always far off so it’s pretty creepy.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
You know what… Jay slept walked for one year. That is all. It was a weird year and we got a baby gate for our stairs. But he was fast to out grow it.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
When my oldest was 5 I woke to a commotion (I know that’s not spelled right…but I’m just too damn lazy to check the correct spelling…sue me) in the bathroom. I went to check to see what it was and found him trying to stand on the rim of the toilet seat. Completely asleep!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
My daughter has been sleepwalking for 8+ years starting when she was 2 1/2. About the same time that she potty trained. We finally figured out that she was worried about wetting the bed and the urge to ‘go’ awoke her so we would just encourage her to go potty and then she would sleep soundly for the rest of the night. Many nights she crawled into the tub instead of sitting on the loo. Now that she’s older, we just guide her to the bathroom and then back to bed.
It’s really scary when she screams with open, but hollow eyes and points to ’something’ behind you in the dark.
We still laugh when she comes into our room, mumbling something incomprehensible and plays with her hair frantically. My husband finally learned that he would never understand her sleepwalking language and just put her on the potty!
Kids sure like to throw us off our rockers on occasion, don’t they???
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August 4th, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
High locks, baby gates, etc.
That would worry me, too!
But still – that part about zebra cakes? – made me laugh.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
My boy is s sleepwalker. I once woke up to hear him OPENING THE FRONT DOOR. Yeah, I was pretty upset. Now we have a lock he can’t reach waaaay at the top of the door and for a long time we had a gate at the top of the stairs. Thankfully it seems to be getting better (he’s 8 now) and mostly he just wanders around his room and moves his toys. Still creeps me out a little.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
It would scare me as well. I would say go with baby gates…good luck:)
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August 4th, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
“like a stoner except not stoned.” That was me pre-J.
Now.
FREAK.
And now you tell us about sleepwalking? Great. Must bolt doors and wrap everything in bubble wrap.
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August 4th, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
That would be very scary for you and maybe even dangerous. What can you do about it? Any idea what causes it?
My middle son is a restless sleeper and we hear him making lots of noice, having conversations and yelling at times – usually he is sitting up or standing in his room, and is still asleep.
Hope she gets a good night sleep soon…and you too!
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August 4th, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
It makes sense to worry some, hoping she won’t hurt herself or something. I’m glad you were awake for most the episodes.
I used to sleep walk and pee on things too. I guess I thought I was walking to the bathroom but I wasn’t. Talk about embarrassing…as a child. I grew out of it…as far as I know.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 2:53 am
I’d probably baby-gate the stairs and take a few precautions, otherwise I’d never sleep myself.
My stepson used to sleepwalk, and he’d be so disoriented and confused. It was weird.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 8:57 am
My husband was a sleepwalker as a child. He’d go, open the fridge, and sit down in front of it. They ended up having to chain the doors shut. He also went outside one night and walked into the middle of the street. Yeah, scary. I was always afraid my kids would sleep walk. Luckily neither inherited that trait; however, my son has extreme night terrors. He’s had them since he was 1. He’s 5 now. It sucks. There’s probably nothing more traumatizing than hearing your baby let out blood curdling screams in the middle of the night.
I will be thinking of you. I hope that Allie doesn’t do this often! *hugs*
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August 5th, 2008 @ 9:12 am
I used to sleepwalk. I talk in my sleep too. Ihaven’t done the sleepwalking since I was probably about 11 but I still talk in my sleep. My son talks in his sleep too, he will probably start sleepwalking soon…
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August 5th, 2008 @ 9:53 am
Oh man. That sucks. I would put a gate at the top of the stairs or? maybe you could shut her door and install a bell and when she opens it you would hear it.
Or maybe break out the monitor again.
Oh and my husband? Has sleep walked and peed on the carpet. Yeah.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 9:56 am
She is beautiful. Safety precautions would appear to be in order. And earlier comments seem to outline those precautions fairly completely. Make sure her pediatrician is informed, however. Just sayin’.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Are you sure we don’t have the same brother? Mine was a sleepwalker for years, and peed on just about everything, including my dad one time, who was asleep on the couch. HA!!
Good luck with the sleepwalking. I think most kids just grow out of it. Put a little bell on one of her feet, then you can hear her wherever she goes. Kind of like a cat.
Not that I compare children to animals. Seriously.
~Brea
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10:10 am
Casey,
Allie sleeps with her eyes opened sometimes too. It is beyond creepy. But I’m used to it now, because she’s done it for a while.
Amanda
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10:12 am
Brea,
I love that someone else has a sleepwalking urinator of a brother. My brother has ruined his last two cell phones, because he accidentally peed on them.
-Amanda
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10:35 am
I don’t blame you for being worried – it is kinda a strange thing. I think it’s fairly common though and hopefully she’ll outgrow it long before 15…
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10:46 am
most kids who sleep walk have to go to the bathroom. I had a friend of mine in high school whose mother slept walked so much that they had to lock her in her bedroom at night. One night *swear true story!* this mother during her sleepwalking stage, got out of the house, into the garage, INTO HER CAR AND DROVE IT AROUND THE BLOCK! She left the car there, walked home and went back to bed. She never knew she did that. CRAZY.
Ok that story probably did nothing to ease your fears. Sorry about that. Hopefully I can make it up to you. Come over to my place (that sounds naughty) because I have some award love that I gave you.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 11:47 am
My son LOVES Zebra Cakes. That’s funny that your little one was dreaming about them. My son talks in his sleep a lot, mostly about Pokemon, but never sleep walks.
Good luck with that, and in the meantime, between now and 15, I’d think about putting a baby gate up at the stairs if it’s feasible. (Which I’m sure you’ve already thought of….)
Have a great day!
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August 5th, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
I have two words for you.
Dead Bolt. Which actually may be one word. Or at least hypenoted. Guess that English degree did nothing for my spelling abilities.
Any who…I have a sleepwalker and about the age of 6- he started going OUTSIDE in the middle of the NIGHT. So we had deadbolts put on the TOP of our doors. Since knew how to unlock the door in his sleep too. But for somereason he was unable to manuver a ladder to get to the dead bolt up high in his sleep.
So you got it? DEAD. BOLT. Or Deadbolt. Or Dead-Bolt. You pick
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August 5th, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Hi! Just wanted to say ‘thanks’ for stopping by my blog about a week ago.
I have not even thought about this sleepwalking subject with little ones. My brother used to sleepwalk…..does this mean my daughter might too?!?!? I guess I’ll just add it to my infinite ‘what to worry about’ list since I’ve had my daughter. I’m just the opposite of you….I worry about EVERY LITTLE THING…….even the ‘what if’s’…..which I am seriously considering getting professional help for. LOL. : ) Just kidding……kind of.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
I sleepwalked and and sleeptalked when I was a teen. But only infrequently for a year or two. I remember one time I pulled a pillow out from under my dad’s head in the middle of the night. He was NOT happy about that one. Another time, I got out of bed, untucked my blankets and top sheet, took my top sheet downstairs to the laundry room, tucked my blankets back in and then got back into bed. I didn’t remember any of it in the morning and was really confused why I didn’t have a sheet!
Rachel
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August 5th, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
When we first moved into our house (three years ago) we thought we had some night time prowler. We always felt like there was some weird movement on our porch sometime during the previous evening. Anyway, one night, I wake up in bed and toss my long, gangly arm around….a pillow. I listened for a sound from the bathroom. Any sound. Nothing. Five minutes pass. Nothing. Grrr, I think. I wonder what’s going on. After searching every room in the house and finding nothing but our own two children sleeping like lambs, I start to get frightened. Not terrified, not yet, but a quickening of the heart, for sure. I may have had a bead or two on my brow. I opened the door, went outside, and there on the lawn is my beloved. Her toes are curled into the green grass. She looks up at me and said, “Pizza.” I had to convince her that I wasn’t pulling her chain the next morning. To my knowledge, she hasn’t done it since.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
I used to sleep walk a bit as a child. Not sure how old I was. Once I walked out of my basement bedroom, through the rec room, up the stairs, through the kitchen and into the dining room. I knew I had walked in my sleep when I woke up under the dining room table one morning. I don’t think I do it anymore. If I do I must wander around and go back to bed as I always wake up in the same location that I fell asleep in.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
Definitely install a gate at the top of the stairs. We have a great one that retracts during the day when we don’t need it. It’ll at least keep her from accidentally falling down.
Eeek…I’m worried for you. Good luck.
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August 5th, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
gosh, that’s a bummer. I have double locks on both doors that lead outside which are out of reach even with a chair for my 4 year old. I can’t sleep unless I double check they are locked. The gate is a great idea.
My daughter grinds her teeth at night, it’s the worst sound in the world.
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August 6th, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
i used to sleep walk..one christmas eve, i sleep-walked out the front door and onto our front porch swing. my grandpa tried to wake me and i thought he was santa..i will probably never live that down, no matter how hard i try..
nick has night-terrors which are just that..terrors. it’s stressful and sad because it takes a good 10 minutes to bring him back to reality. if he starts sleep-walking, i’ll probably lose my sanity!
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August 7th, 2008 @ 2:49 am
My now 10 year old son sleep walks, now only occasionally. He started when he stopped wearing pull-ups at night (around age 5). The first time I discovered him turning around in circles in the hallway whimpering, he was apparently trying to find the bathroom. Creepiest part is, he sleep walks with his eyes wide open! Once he peed on the glass coffee table in our sitting room. He’s peed in his toy box. He’s peed in the closet and one time a dresser drawer. His aim has gotten better now, last year I found him peeing into the bathtub, which is right next to the toilet…lol
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January 6th, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
My husband was a sleep walker. Bad enough that one night his neighbor brought him back home at about 3am. He remembers looking into his parents room – not seeing them and running next door in a panic because he was left alone. In fact his parents WERE in bed – he just didn’t see them because of sleepwalking. My oldest daughter (now 9) began sleepwalking at about 3 yrs old – it lasted only about 1 year (long enough in my opinon), but the after the first night we added sliding door locks to all outside accesible doors high enough that only my husband and I could reach them. Shortly thereafter we put a security alarm in the house with a bell noise that goes of each time a window or door is opened. I am so thankful we did that because this week my youngest (now 6) started to sleepwalk – two nights in a row. I hope it is as short lived as my other daughters – it is very unnerving…
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February 4th, 2009 @ 3:34 am
You fell? You’d better be careful next time. =) My friend had an injured knee due to a fall while playing baseball. Now we lost a player
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September 2nd, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
We had a very scary experience last month with our 12 year-old daughter sleepwalking. Our house is alarmed on every door and window. But, we just didn’t think of the sleep-walking while staying at a hotel in San Diego. She had only walked in her sleep once before, a couple years earlier. I awoke at 1am to a light knocking at the hotel door. I thought it was very strange and woke up my husband to investigate. He didn’t see anyone through the peep-hole, so he looked through the side window. We were shocked to see our 12 year-old daughter standing outside……this hotel had outside corridors on the 2nd floor…..scary!! She had a cup in her hand and told us that she had gone to look for water. I gave her some water and she laid down and went right back to sleep. She did not remember this in the morning. Our daughter is short, but was able to undo the higher-up hotel latch and open the door, in her sleep. Any kid could grab a chair and possibly escape. Of course we’ll never know how long she was gone or where she went, but hopefully the slamming hotel door woke her up enough to come back knocking immediately….. I don’t mean to scare anyone, just wanted to warn of something that my husband andI I didn’t think of. We now have a portable door alarm for vacations.
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