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Sleep or LACK OFF..!!

Mayhem

I have Four boys, Three on the Spectrum.

Each Child is prescribed Melatonin(3mgs-9mgs)

Our sons go to bed at 6:00/7:00pm every night but are, without failure awake every morning at 3/5am. We have tried putting them to bed much later, sometimes upto Midnight, to break this routine they're all in, but without fail they awake at the same time.

After many days of tears, tiredness and utter mayhem, we are so tired we have to revert back to the 6-7pm bedtime, to ensure they have some decent sleep and are more settled in the day, especially at School!

When they wake, we can't leave them unattended, even thou' we have most doors downstairs locked (One son is Harry Houdini!) the bathroom often suffers loo roll assults and toothpaste is eaten like icecream!

 

Is there ANY form of medication, or a magical learnt cure to allow them to be awake later in the evening, but wake at a more 'Mum and Dad' Social time IE anything after 6am, or is this a common issue and will Coffee be forever my Best Friend!

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  • Hello,

    All sounds very familiar! My son is 4 years old and we have had terrible trouble getting him to stay asleep for more than six hours until we got him prescribed with melatonin. His bedtime is 8pm and has been since he was about 2 and a half as he is so active. He now usually sleeps about 10-11 hours which is fantastic but there is usually at least one day in the week where he wakes up at 2 am and that's it there is no going back to bed for him. He has very limited language so trying to reason with him just doesn't work.

    When we had the melatonin prescribed, we also had something else suggested just in case that didn't work. Its called Alimemazine Tartrate and is meant for kids with eczema to help them stop scratching in the night. However we found that this has become less effective (we tried that at the weekends and the melatonin during the week) and it seemed to make him hyperactive for about an hour after having so we stopped it. Your mileage may vary.

    When I can at the weekend I take him swimming which helps, he always has a good night's sleep after that. Is it possible to get your boys to engage in any physical activity which will tire them out and help them sleep?

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  • Hello,

    All sounds very familiar! My son is 4 years old and we have had terrible trouble getting him to stay asleep for more than six hours until we got him prescribed with melatonin. His bedtime is 8pm and has been since he was about 2 and a half as he is so active. He now usually sleeps about 10-11 hours which is fantastic but there is usually at least one day in the week where he wakes up at 2 am and that's it there is no going back to bed for him. He has very limited language so trying to reason with him just doesn't work.

    When we had the melatonin prescribed, we also had something else suggested just in case that didn't work. Its called Alimemazine Tartrate and is meant for kids with eczema to help them stop scratching in the night. However we found that this has become less effective (we tried that at the weekends and the melatonin during the week) and it seemed to make him hyperactive for about an hour after having so we stopped it. Your mileage may vary.

    When I can at the weekend I take him swimming which helps, he always has a good night's sleep after that. Is it possible to get your boys to engage in any physical activity which will tire them out and help them sleep?

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