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My two year old daughter wakes up every night laughing and rocking....

My daughter is two and a half years old and just recently we weaned her off of her pacifier. Ever since then she will wake up every night normally around 3am. She will sit up smiling and laughing and rock her-self back and forth throwing herself into the pillows. She will do this anywhere from half-an-hour to a full hour. I tell her to quit bouncing and she will say okay mom and then continue to do it. I am concerned that this could be a indicator of another issue.




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My two year old daughter wakes up every night laughing and rocking....

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Jun 16, 2011
 Same Problem
by: Anonymous

My daughter just recently started doing this too. I have no idea why and it's starting to get frustrating because she'll be up for at least an hour and then she goes back to sleep but is crabby.
Dec 20, 2011
 me too NEW
by: Anonymous

My daughter does the same thing. Im lost at why.
Jan 07, 2012
 did you touch her? NEW
by: Anonymous

Did you see if she respons to you in any other way? Laughing and rocking are signs of nighttime seizures..are her pupils dilated?
Feb 09, 2012
 4 yr old son wakes up n rocks himself to sleep NEW
by: clara

my stepson witch i met since he was 8 months, at that time i remember it was hard to put him to sleep. He will constantly wake up n start jumping in the bed or playing with the blankets he would do it 2 or 3 times during the night. My boyfriend n i would go in there n put him to sleep, he will fall sleep for about 2hrs and up again. After at 15 months he will still do that but now getting off the bed n start playing with the toys. At that point we will walk in the room constantly to check on him, he notice that we would get upset because he will make all kinds of noise in the middle of the night when he had 2 other kids in the room so he stop playing around but he started with something new, he started rocking him self till falling sleep, in witch he will fall sleep folded in half(his head on top of his knees). until now he still does that n became a habit he does the rocking through the day when sitting down and rocking side to side when standing. he is behind on speech haves hard time listening is very active wants attention and haves dark circles under his eyes. we just found out he haves a sleep disorder about to take him to his first check from a sleep disorder specialist. we still constantly check on him during the night to lay him down straight. we love him
Feb 24, 2012
 Laughing at night NEW
by: Jess

Hey I just wanna say that my 2 year old does the same thing waking up in the middle of the night laughing and rocking herself for 2 hrs or so. I don't think she's having seizures cause she answers me when I talk to her and I tell her to stop it but then does it again. The dr says its no big deal but I'm very worried can someone please give me an explanation to why she's doing this.
Mar 30, 2012
 2 year old laughing though the night NEW
by: Anonymous

my 2 year old will do the same thing she goes to bed at 8 wakes up around 11:30 laughing and it will go on for sometime up to 3 hours, i have asked many people about this but no one has a clue. i have recently stopped my child from watching children cartoon "IN THE NIGHT GARDEN" and her behavior has improved both in morning and night.. Do any of you parents out there let there child watch this cartoon?? because it has been getting bad reviews and its causing the little ones behavior to be very bad. thanks

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