Dealing with baby night terrors

My 15 month old just started having what her pediatrician called night terrors. she will wake up screaming bloody murder and I cannot comfort her. she will fall asleep in my arms while I rock her, but as soon as her head touches her mattress, she is screaming again. I usually have to let her cry (scream) herself back to sleep. Any advice on how to comfort her?

WELL MY ADVISE IS JUST PUTTING A SHOT SO SHE CAN GO 2 SLEEP.BUT I DONT KNOW IF ITS going to WORK.I've ALWAYS WANTED 2 DO THAT 2 MY SISTERS.

What ! A shot ??

I have a little 4 year old sister,
when she was at that age she wuold do the same what we did is not carry her as often we tried to let crawl around and let her play with her toys for a week straight without caryying her and it worked!!!
hope it helped
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Dear meganhead,
Night terrors are sometimes difficult to get to the bottom of why they happen. So until you can pin point why specifically generally you can try to watch for areas of stress with your child. Try a bath and soothing music prior to bed. Keeping close taps on anything that is too much of a stimulate for your child such as busy areas, loud noises etc. The best thing to do is keep a diary of all the daily routine and bring it with you to the doctors. This way they may be able to see some pattern and able to give you better advice.
Sue...good luck

bere7102 is WRONG! That is not the way to get a baby to sleep! I think your baby just feels it always needs to be with you, that's natural. I agree with sue90. You should use soothing music and rubbing your babys back when its on the mattress. If that doesn't help, maybe it's the mattress. Try switching it with another one in the house and if that doesn't work, I think go to a doctor to consult and find a way to calm your baby down.

Night terrors are horrible. My son went through them. It seemed to me like he was in a state almost like sleep walking. He would scream and there was nothing I could do. Even holding him didn't work. Then all of the sudden out of the blue it was like he woke up and was happy and loving. He did it for over a year. The doctor recommended a schedule, it didn't help. The only thing that helped and I do mean this 'once in a while' was I gave him a bath before bed, put on calming lotion from johnson and johnson. I also gave him a small snack. When he layed down I softly read to him. It is a hard thing to go through and I hope it doesn't last to long. They say it is a stressful event and with a baby it can be something simple.

well try leting her lay with you in your bedroom I've herd of something like this before usually I think t hat the baby is having nightmares for the first time and it really freaks them out because they never had one before or there is a posibility that there could be a spirit in the babys room