31 | I Thought We'd Made a Huge Mistake | Jess | Night Terrors, Ditching The Dummy & Surgery Recovery

For three months, Jess convinced herself the night terrors would just pass.

Every night, roughly two hours after bedtime, her daughter Floss would start screaming, kicking, thrashing, eyes wide open, completely unreachable. Sometimes it happened every thirty minutes until 1am. In the morning, she had no memory of any of it. Jess's own GP had never heard of a link between night terrors and tonsils.

In this episode, Jess shares what actually led her to push past "wait and see," the nasal spray that worked for a month and then stopped, the moment an ENT said her tonsils were graded a three out of four, and the brutal, unexpected recovery that had her convinced, days after the surgery, that they'd made a huge mistake. Because it doesn't get better in three days. For Jess and Floss, it took closer to a month, and then everything changed.

This episode explores:

• Night terrors in toddlers
• Toddler sleep and frequent night waking
• Teeth grinding and night sweats in children
• Restless, disrupted sleep and its causes
• ENT referrals and long wait times
• Surgery recovery in young children
• When to push past "it's probably nothing"
• Mood, appetite and behaviour changes tied to poor sleep

If your child has unexplained night terrors, grinds their teeth, sweats through the night, or wakes up looking like they've been through a storm, this conversation might be the one that changes what you ask your GP next.

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