Mom catches her toddlers concerning habit on a baby monitor

For the last year, Dana’s two-year-old son has jolted awake, sat bolt upright then flopped straight back to sleep like nothing happened. It’s like a glitch in the matrix.And despite watching it unfold, Dana is no closer to understanding why it’s happening.“I feel like he never gets a good night’s rest.He’s always been a terrible sleeper, but he’s been doing this in particular for about a year now,” Dana told Kidspot.  “He does it pretty often.

At least once a week and multiple times a night.”Taking to TikTok she showed a concerning clip from her son’s baby monitor. “Can someone explain this,” she wrote. “My two year old does this multiple times a night and then will fall straight asleep… My poor baby can’t ever seem to relax his body.”  In the caption of the post she shed some more light on her experience. “His sleep is constantly disrupted, he’s always over stimulated and has never slept through a night in all of his almost three years of life.I feel like I’m still in the newborn stage as he wakes up about every 2-3 hours,” she explained. Sleep consultant, Taylor, from sleepysquishco, has says the phenomenon is called a confusional arousal. “There are lots of external things that can be impacting these such as confusional arousals, this is common especially between 2-5 years of age,” she told Kidspot“What happens is they partially wake from a deep sleep, they sit up, look around confused, may call out but often they are still “sleepy” and don’t require much.

There are big developmental changes going on at two years of age so it could be disrupting the sleep pattern.”  She says that there’s a number of contributing factors that can lead to confusional arousals, such as overtiredness, illness or discomfort, too much screen time, overstimulation, genetics (if sleep disturbances run in the family), breathing/airway issues, nutrient deficiencies. “The list goes on and on as to what could...