When Kate was two, she went through a phase of night terrors. They were textbook. She screamed, wouldn't wake, and they were shortly after she went to bed. We did some reading and started waking her with a cup of water to sip a few minutes before they usually began and in a few weeks she was past them.
Evidently Ellie has more in common with Kate than her curls. I didn't originally associate her cries with night terrors because they are so much later in the evening, but as she shares a room with Nate, he may disturb her just enough when he comes to bed to push them later into the evening. I got her up with a cup of water for a couple of nights, then I forgot one night, and she was up again. So we're back to a sip of water at my bed time to head off the terrors.
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