Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi,
Our baby who is 2 1/2 yrs been told to be having autistic behaviour. We have got to know about autism recently. After reading about it a lot we now realise that his sleeping issues probably are related to ASD.
For almost 1 year now he tend to wake up at least once or twise during the night and we put him back to sleep. This does not happen daily but he has a twin brother and we clearly see that there is lack of sleeping quality of him compared to his brother. Even last night he woke up twise.
All these days the obvious thing we thought was that he is hungry and to give him milk. Which usually works.
after reading about it now i also tend to see that 'milk' may probably be bad for children with ASD also.
Has anyone done any home remodies to make the situation better ? has it worked ? please help.
Dear recombinantsocks, Thank you so much for your post. Your questions mean i get to discuss this with someone else and trust me at this point this is all we need :)
Even last 2 nights he woke up one time each around 1:30am and after a while he went to sleep. We have also read about "night terrors" so we just calm him down and then he goes back to sleep. Ever since we figured about autism, we kind of thought that sleeping issues may probably be related to that also.
Yes he sleeps in a dark place, same bed room as ours but in another bed with his twin brother. Since most Doctors tend to let you know very little, these online resources seems to give much needed hope than only having settle to what the doctors say. Since simple dietary changes can not really harm him, i see no issue in trying them out. Many parents say that as soon as the changes were made, they saw improvements. We saw the same thing when we stopped the TV 100%. Within a week he transformed, his eye contact increased tremendausly plus he started to talk even though most he said was not meaningful.
While taking through all the therapies, i'm now considering biomedical options like what you have mentioned. Even yesterday i emailed one of my friends who is a Dr asking whether i should consult a "biomedical expert" or my general physician. I read in many places that things like vitamin b12 is very good for them. Obviously i would not want to try them without proper medical guidance.
On a more positive note, we are seeing daily improvements in him (we have not yet stopped milk). He (after 2 1/2 years) for the very first time kissed me day before and yesterday he repeated. A kiss and a smile. Means the world to me !!! This may be because his mother had to stay back at home and understandably he enjoys mothers company the most (I'm the father by the way). She is now trying to work out a deal with her office to work 1/2 day only for few months. Hope everything will work out well.