Is it a Full Moon? DS3 has been AWAKE since 2.30am...Downstairs...Alone...Whilst the rest of us were fast asleep

[ClutterJunkie]

This is really driving me mad.

I feel so awful this morning.

DS is 9 and has ADHD and Aspergers Syndrome and CANNOT be LEFT ALONE .

So to get up this morning and find he has managed to sneak downstairs without me noticing is sickening- as I dread to think of what he MIGHT have got up to.

Luckily nothing too dangerous this time- just re-decorated the christmas tree and threaded tinsel around hamster cages (which they seem to have ignored...which IS a relief)

I have a 'motion detector' on the landing which usually alerts me to any one going down at night...DS2 is a frequent sleep walker, so i am usually woken up by him.

the motion detector has 2 settings- the alarm (which wakes EVERYONE) and the 'automatic light' that is enough to wake me- as i am a light sleeper.

Have just thrown out old baby monitors...and realsie that thay are probably the best solution- i could hide the monitor somewhere in the lounge- i would then be woken as soon as he makes a noise.

Any other ideas?

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

Yes.

DS1 (severely autistic) has been up every bloody night this week as well.

We set the alarm that wakes everyone if he goes into the front room. Front door is double locked as always, kitchen is locked (god knows what we'd do in a fire, but that's ASD for you).

TBH he usually comes and finds me to pinch and irritate (he's 9 too).

My friend's dd who has ASD has set the alarm off a few times and is scared of it now so she does stay in her room.

Think it's over now (think it was this morning) so hopefully sleep will get back to normal for 3 weeks.

This month there was a funny event with Jupiter (some sort of eclipse thing or something) which also woke him.

DS1 always reminds me how close we are to nature, despite our houses and technology.

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

And why's it always 2.30? DS1's favoured time to rise with the run up to the full moon is 1am/2am. What is the moon doing then?

He is like clockwork (which is why I'm fairly confident of getting a full night's sleep tonight). I don't understand it though.

[ClutterJunkie]

thanks jimjams (i'm mrsF)

i rang school this morning to warn them how ds might be- and they just didn't get the point. I could tell from her voice that she was confused as to why i'd bother phoning school to tell them my son was up all night.I am sat here feeling so sick about it- he has never been up so early before. I am dreading how he'll be by mid morning..and what he'll be like after school.... (however...if he is more disruptive at school- and the receptionist does not tell his teacher what i phoned about...then at least i can point out my concerns...again)

The last few weeks of term leading to christmas are always a nightmare in our house- the change of routine at school drives the boys nuts.... what would please many children (non- uniforms, different dinners, NO P.E.... Making christmas decorations instead of doing Maths....absolutely wind DS's up----and then if i try to explain to teachers that my DS's would prefer sticking to usual routine...they just miss that point too...they cannot see how ANY child would prefer doing the 'mundane' over the 'Suprise/Exciting' activity.

They even 'swapped' an assembly for a 'Puppet show' the other day.... and despite DS3 LOVING puppets- he still reacted as it was meant to be a 'normal assembly'

[ClutterJunkie]

as you know, all 3 of mine take melatonin...and it works a dream....but in the past week- i've had more 'up and down the stairs' activity...but luckily this time only DS3 actually got up.

He jsut didn't looked phased by it at all this morning...infact was more hyper (as he'd had 5 hours without me 'keeping an eye on him')

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

He may be fine. Being up from 1am never seems to faze ds1- in fact makes him more hyper/energetic. He often goes to sleep well the next night though. I always write in the home-school book but they often say he's fine. Even when it's the third night in a row of getting up at 1am and I am dead on my feet.

[PeachyBidsYouNadoligLlawen]

ds1 is much like yours clutter (no adhd ) and needs 24/7 supervision

we have a shed conact alarm on his door

full moon v v noticeable here, combined with impending Christmas- aarrggghhh

[ClutterJunkie]

what makes it worse is that our bathroom/toilet is downstairs...so what maybe starts as 'just' a need to go to the loo...becomes much more