3 year olds and nightmares??

Megan has been having bad dreams for weeks now.

She used to wake up this happy, little girl and now every morning shes screaming at me to remove something else from her room...usually its whales? I have no idea why. The other day it was a ghost.

Every early morning around 4 30, she starts whining and crying in her sleep. She begs to come in my bed but I dont want to start that habit. I am exhausted but I feel so bad because its definately bad dreams.

Is this the common age for this? Anyone else going through this???

Re: 3 year olds and nightmares??

My 3 year old just his first nightmare the other night. He was crying about monsters and was terrified when I took him to use the bathroom. The he came in my bed and clung to me. My older son use to get night terrors but those are different, they are very hard to wake up and are inconsolable.

Re: 3 year olds and nightmares??

Yup... that's around the age when Alex started having nightmares. I would go in and comfort her, but I never let her come into bed with me Sometimes it wasn't nightmares though - sometimes she would wake up crying that her legs hurt, so I suspect it was growing pains.