2 year update!

Jaliyah is now 2 years old and is absolutely amazing. She is now 35 inches tall and weighs 31 lbs - her height to weight ratio is perfect. As many of you know, I co-slept with Jaliyah from a young age and for her birthday I purchased a toddler bed to being the "big girl"-ness. She is slowly but surely making way to her own bed and this transition has reassured me and my co-sleeping method. She is totally in love with reading and learning - she can now spell her first, middle, and last name. She can count to "twell" (twelve).

As far as her eating habits she still adores fruit and will eat fruit until it comes out of her eyeballs. Vegetables on the other hand, are no good. I give her the Gerber grabbers and similar products that mix vegetables and fruits together. I'm also giving her Pediasure on occasion to make sure she is getting her nutrients.

I had a few readers wondering about Jaliyah's night terrors. They have subsided quite a bit but do still rear their ugly heads sometimes. I still do not know what was causing them to begin with but she slowly grew out of them. She will have one maybe once or twice a month now - and they are still scary! I'm hoping with in the next few months she will completely rid them. Much of the research I did told me that night terrors can turn in to sleep walking as the babies/toddlers turn in to bigger kids, which scares the crap out of me! But I'll cross that road if we ever get to it..crossing fingers...

Night Terrors

The past couple weeks I have noticed Jaliyah waking up in the middle of the night screaming - not crying - screaming. She would always go right back to sleep and I figured she just was having a bad dream.

wrong.

My poor little one year old baby is having night terrors. For those of you who do not know what night terrors are, it is one of the most scariest things you will ever experience as a parent. see here for info

Last night was the worst yet. Around 1:30 in the morning (Jaliyah was in bed with me) she sat up, eyes wide open, and started screaming a way - I've never heard her scream like this. She then started to jump away from whatever was scaring her. With night terrors, its suggested that the parents do not try and wake the child up because it can create a worse terror. So I left her alone and was waiting for it to past but she then jumped into the headboard of the bed. I had no choice but to grab her and she preceded to flail and throw herself out of my arms and flop around the bed. I was so scared and it was so unsettling to watch this. After about 15 minutes she started to calm down and allowed me to hold her and comfort her. She then fell back asleep like nothing ever happened.

From the research I have done, the only cause of night terrors is sleep deprivation. Jaliyah takes naps though and sleeps about 10-11 hours a night. So I'm really not sure what's going on. I am going to speak to the pediatrician and see what he thinks. All I know is I don't ever want to watch Jaliyah go through this again.