Guest guest Posted June 18, 2001 Report Share Posted June 18, 2001 Dear listmates, I am sorry to cross-post like this, but I will claim sleep deprevation! Have any of you experienced sleep problems (waking up in the middle of the night for a couple of hours totally wired!) in your kids with PDD/autism? Our son, three years old today!, was a wonderful sleeper for the first 2 1/2 years of his life. For about 6 months now, he's been waking up for 2-3 hours at a time, 1-3 times a week. At first he was relatively quiet, sang songs quietly or did his verbal imitation ABA program by rote memory. For the past 6 weeks though, he's been very loud with what seems to be verbal stimming since it's jabbering. Our neurologist suggesting giving him Melatonin 30 minutes prior to bedtime to help his circadian rhythm. That has helped a bit but not totally. Neither my husband or I are able to sleep when he's awake anymore since he's become so loud (especially frustrating because he's often a " low-talker " much of the time!), and our little boy is clearly not getting enough sleep either! (His brother who shares him room sleeps through it...) Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't want to sound whiny, but I'm really tired!! We are taking our son for an EEG this Thursday to be sure there is no seisure activity. Thank you and sorry to whine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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