Comments on: My Child is a Sleepwalker?

By: erika

erika — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:12:30 +0000

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.

By: Baseball Regulation

Baseball Regulation — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:34:16 +0000

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

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:54:15 +0000

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…

By: joni

joni — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:49:21 +0000

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

By: alynn

alynn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:11:10 +0000

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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By: Denise @ EatPlayLove

Denise @ EatPlayLove — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:07:34 +0000

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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By: MommyCosm

MommyCosm — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:04:00 +0000

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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By: The Flirty Girl

The Flirty Girl — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:56:02 +0000

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. The Flirty Girls last blog post..A Freeze Dried Bridal Bouquet... With a twist!

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:45:20 +0000

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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By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:58:12 +0000

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!

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