My scaredy child.

I don't know if she is going through another fear period or what. But Julia has some extreme fear.

I thought she was finally getting over her fear over everything. She was doing much better socially and was actually doing okay around crowds. Now noises of all sorts scare her. Even airplanes in the sky freak her out. If she hears something she does not like or scares her, she covers her ears and runs to one of us crying.

The daycare brought someone in to do development testing on all the kids. We got Julia's report back today. It said that Julia was really shy for the evaluator and had extreme fearfullness and stranger anxiety. I think they had a hard time assessing her because of it. They marked down that she could not do several things that I KNOW she can do and she does at home on a regular basis. It was because the evaluator could not get Julia to do what s/he asked. They had to rely on the caregivers to tell the evaluator how Julia was doing in certian areas. Out of what they did get Julia to do, it showed she was right on track, even ahead developmentally.

Then we had a bad night last night. Julia cried when put to bed, after a few minutes the cry changed from "I don't want to go to bed", to "I am terrified". I went in to check on her and you could just see the look of terror on her face. I got her settled down and laid her back down. 15 minutes later she is screaming in terror again. Once again I got to her and see she is scared out of her mind. I rock her some more and sing to her to calm her down. In less then 2 songs she was snoring. Poor girl was so tired. Then AGAIN at 4:30am, she was screaming in terror. I rock her some more and she is quickly back asleep. I have no clue what could have scared her so much. She has a night-light in her room.

I really hope this is just another phase she is going through and she will quickly out grow it. I don't know what else I can do to help. I have her in a great daycare with other kids, I take her to swimming classes (which she LOVES), we try to take her out to festivals and other places.