Hello,
I am new to this forum. My 10 year old son has recently been diagnosed with ASD.
He has always been a poor sleeper and has never really gone through the night for any decent period of time. He used to come into our room every night and sleep on a mattress on the floor. It took a good 8 months or so of hard work but we got him falling asleep in his own bed and staying in it all night. It seems though with the change to year 6 at school he is very unsettled and now wakes from around 2am and constantly comes in my room. If I put him to bed again he's up before I've even left his room he shouts across the hallway waking his two brothers..One of which is only 10 months old.
I gave him the laptop in desperation the other night as between him and his brothers night feeds I'm sometimes getting 3 hours max sleep and I'm at my wits end.
I thought that the laptop would calm him and he would fall asleep however he is up from 2am until morning watching films.
I'm not sure what to do? If he has the laptop at least everyone else can sleep. But if he doesn't have it he would be awake anyway calling out for hours.
I've tried everything... This has been a long 8 years of no consistent sleep pattern ...he won't stay in bed if he's the only one awake. The laptop is the only thing that works but then he doesn't get any sleep for school.. I'm so confused and feel like a bad parent.
He takes melatonin at bedtime but this has no impact on sleeping through. .. any suggestions??
Thanks!
