DS still waiting for his DX - seeing CAHMS this Thurs, I reckon most of you know his smattering of issues from the long long time I've been posting waiting for some news with him
Just to update - he has been having the odd night terror here and there - I assume this is what they are, example he's woken us up at 2 am standing in his room screaming saying he cant open his door (he must have first closed the door becuase it was left open) and then it kicking off a long meltdown where he seemed to be asleep because he wasnt making any sense but his eyes were open & it was fixed by our meltdown procedure (him inside my arms & legs, me rocking & singing) this same kind of thing has happened again.
He is having loads of isses atm tbh. He is widening and blinking his eyes all the time and when he sits still his mouth makes this constant noise as if he is smacking his lips. I dont know. I am knackerd.
But to get to the point he isnt sleeping! He is being put to bed then getting up and coming to us in the living room saying he cant sleep but after a very short amount of time, 1-5 mins even. This carries on for ages. Eventually we get him to sleep in bed with me but this takes a long time and then of course I haevto be with him when sometimes I need to be doing stuff out in the house. Or actually, I need to be sleeping but he plasters himself to the side of me and sometimes I can move off the edge of the king size bed so I dont get sleep. Sometimes I can sleep with him comfortably and I love it but sometimes not.
Then we put him in his bed last night at midnight b/c he was fast asleep and he transferred fine only mumbling "where are you putting me?"
So DH and I went to sleep exhausted about 1230. But then he walked into our room at 3 am saying he was awake now and couldnt sleep anymore. And nothing we could do would get him to sleep anywhere. At 4 or so DH took him out of the room so I could get some sleep because I am really buckling under the strain and it is going to badly aggrevate my migraines. So DH didnt get any sleep but I slept til 7. But we are just absolutely shattered.
DS is napping in the day and I know the obvious thing would be to cut that out so he'd sleep at night but the way DS is with his SN (?) is that he really can not get through a day without a nap without going mental. That has always been the case but he has still sleot fine at night. I just dont know what to do.
He's been awake now since 3 am and I am about to take him to preschoool. He'll get home at 12:30 and he will have to drop into bed for a nap because he'll have been awake such a long time which he cant cope with. I dont know what to do.
Gonna go now take him to school TIA
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Please, what on earth can we do to get DS to sleep we are nearing breaking point
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hereidrawtheline · 23/06/2009 08:41
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