Almost two. Was sleeping through. Then that big storm, power went, he woke up screaming. No storm since. Still up at 3 every night saying 'boom'. Only settles in our bed. Daycare says his naps are fine. how long does this last
Our son had this around 2, after Diwali crackers. A night light helped a little. In the daytime we made 'thunder' with a steel plate and a spoon so the sound became his game. Took a couple of weeks. Pillalu forget faster than we do 🙂
night light on since 1. he's awake. now pointing at the night light 😂
first evening of steel plate thunder done. slept till 2.30. counting it
With my daughter it was the pressure cooker. What helped was a picture book with a storm in it, read in the daytime, and naming the sound each time we heard anything loud: that's thunder, it's loud, it's outside. Boring, but saying the same three sentences mattered more than anything we bought.
Did you read it at bedtime too, or strictly in the daytime? With my son, anything storm-related close to bedtime seemed to bring it back.
Mine is 8 months and the thunder wakes her too, but she goes back down with a pat. Reading all this for when she's old enough to say 'boom' 🙂 Amma says I was exactly like this.
Something similar happened in our old building, when the generator started up one night. Our daughter woke at that same hour for weeks after. We tried several things. It faded on its own in about three weeks, and I could not tell you which of them helped.
Is it still exactly 3 on the quiet nights? If the time hasn't moved, I'd suspect it has become a waking habit more than fear. With my younger one the fix for that was dull: back into her own bed every time, same few words, no lights. It took about ten days.
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