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<blockquote data-quote="SingleADHDparent" data-source="post: 454318" data-attributes="member: 12658"><p>InsaneCdn - Yes he has always been so restless in his sleep. He started sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old but even though he was sleeping all night he was constantly moving. Once he learned to roll over he would go from one end of the crib to the other in his sleep. Every time I would check on him he would be in a different spot. To this day I still can't keep blankets on him and had to move him out of a toddler bed at 3 because it was just too small for the amount he moves. However, once he is asleep it is almost impossible to wake him up. No matter how much he is tossing and turning you can't wake him. Often times I will find him standing in the hallway crying. After the first couple times I figured out that he is still asleep but knows he has to pee. He will get just out of his room and then stand there and cry. I have to bring him to the bathroom and stand him in front of the toilet and aim his penis. Then put him back in bed. He will sleep through the whole thing. Other nights he is in my room 3-4 times during the night because he actually wakes up. I had to put parental locks on the tv's so that they won't turn on before 7am because if he does wake up he will stay up all night watching tv being careful to keep the volume low enough as to not wake me up. I am such a sounder sleeper that for 2 years I slept in our living room for fear he would get out of the house or hurt himself when he got up. I have tried putting him to be earlier but that results with him laying awake until way passed his normal bedtime out of spite. Not matter what time he goes to bed he is up by 6:30 at the latest. If he gets too overtired you would swear I gave him speed. There have been times when I had to give him herbal remedies to calm him enough to be able to even function and after about 3 days they would calm him down enough to sleep. Now that we are back in our home state I can't get those herbal remedies locally. I recently tried calm child because he got so excited over a vacation in March that he wasn't sleeping and I couldn't have him fly across the country like that. It got us through the flights but that was it. His counselor recently recommended melatonin but with sleepiness being a side effect of intuniv I don't dare give him something to make him sleep. We see his psychiatrist next week so I will bring all this up again to him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SingleADHDparent, post: 454318, member: 12658"] InsaneCdn - Yes he has always been so restless in his sleep. He started sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old but even though he was sleeping all night he was constantly moving. Once he learned to roll over he would go from one end of the crib to the other in his sleep. Every time I would check on him he would be in a different spot. To this day I still can't keep blankets on him and had to move him out of a toddler bed at 3 because it was just too small for the amount he moves. However, once he is asleep it is almost impossible to wake him up. No matter how much he is tossing and turning you can't wake him. Often times I will find him standing in the hallway crying. After the first couple times I figured out that he is still asleep but knows he has to pee. He will get just out of his room and then stand there and cry. I have to bring him to the bathroom and stand him in front of the toilet and aim his penis. Then put him back in bed. He will sleep through the whole thing. Other nights he is in my room 3-4 times during the night because he actually wakes up. I had to put parental locks on the tv's so that they won't turn on before 7am because if he does wake up he will stay up all night watching tv being careful to keep the volume low enough as to not wake me up. I am such a sounder sleeper that for 2 years I slept in our living room for fear he would get out of the house or hurt himself when he got up. I have tried putting him to be earlier but that results with him laying awake until way passed his normal bedtime out of spite. Not matter what time he goes to bed he is up by 6:30 at the latest. If he gets too overtired you would swear I gave him speed. There have been times when I had to give him herbal remedies to calm him enough to be able to even function and after about 3 days they would calm him down enough to sleep. Now that we are back in our home state I can't get those herbal remedies locally. I recently tried calm child because he got so excited over a vacation in March that he wasn't sleeping and I couldn't have him fly across the country like that. It got us through the flights but that was it. His counselor recently recommended melatonin but with sleepiness being a side effect of intuniv I don't dare give him something to make him sleep. We see his psychiatrist next week so I will bring all this up again to him. [/QUOTE]
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