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3 year old daughter continually wakes

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Hi,

I am really hoping someone may be able to offer some words of wisdom around my daughter, I have suspected for a while that’s she has ASD, her moods are very changeable, she has to follow certain routines/directions, hates certain touch/feel and can lash out, all of this has been manageable but I am now starting to really struggle with her sleep pattern.

She has night terrors 1-2 times a month, I have to let her work out of them, hopefully this makes sense and then she will want cuddles and goes straight back to sleep, more recently she has started waking 5-6 times a night, leading to very broken sleep for her and myself.

i have also noticed that she will be randomly talking in her sleep or almost grinding her teeth. 

i have done the obvious of a calm bedtime routine, bath and milk and no screen time, o have cut out sugar from her diet but in the last few weeks and in particular 5/7 nights have been broken which I know isn’t great!

any words of advice would be hugely appreciated - I have an appointment booked with the dr and a sleep diary from the last month, but tbh don’t hold out much hope with them.

thanks 

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  • Not sure if this helps. My son used to have night terrors. At the time we could not see any particular reason. However when he started school we noticed he often had them when he had a different teacher making us think they were related to something he found difficult during the day. Are there any links to a change in routine either with the night terrors or disturbed nights?

    My son at that age tended to wake between 430 and 5 in the morning due to it being lighter. We had blackout curtains to help and Velcro on the wall to help prevent gaps at the side.

    The other thing I wonder is it to do with the temperature in the room? I don't sleep so well when it is warm and have a window open most of the year. I sometimes talk in my sleep, usually related to something during the day that was difficult.

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  • Not sure if this helps. My son used to have night terrors. At the time we could not see any particular reason. However when he started school we noticed he often had them when he had a different teacher making us think they were related to something he found difficult during the day. Are there any links to a change in routine either with the night terrors or disturbed nights?

    My son at that age tended to wake between 430 and 5 in the morning due to it being lighter. We had blackout curtains to help and Velcro on the wall to help prevent gaps at the side.

    The other thing I wonder is it to do with the temperature in the room? I don't sleep so well when it is warm and have a window open most of the year. I sometimes talk in my sleep, usually related to something during the day that was difficult.

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