Babies and infants are prone towards sleep terrors and apparently while many point towards other possible causes such as the things they see or what they hear, it can really be borne genetically.

Sleep terrors are the most dramatic type of arousal disorder, usually occurring abruptly with screaming. The person is confused, disoriented and cannot be consoled. Efforts to wake up the sufferer may make them more agitated. When left alone the person will fall back to sleep, and will not remember the arousal upon waking.

Such sleep terrors go on far as long as 30 months and while parents seem to try and calm their babies down, once babies go back to sleep, they wake up without any inkling of their forgettable experience. These are attacks that come in and out of a child’s life and a lot of it has to do with the genes and the environment that they are in.

(Source) National Post

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