child sleeping a lot- 14 hr plus- any one else got one?

[UniS]

Feel a bit if a fraud posting on this ere sleep board as you all seem to have the opposite problem to me.
I have a child who sleeps a lot, , I started a sleep diary to try and reassure myself he was just normal and I was paranoid, but it seems he sleeps even more than I thought he did. 14-17 hours out of 24.
hes been checked for Diabetes and given a once over for anaemia and GP doesn't think either is his problem...
So, any one else got one? how common is this sleeps a lot thing. Mine is 3.2 and this has been going on since before he started preschool.

dd sleeps 11-12 hours at night, and up to 3.5 hours in the afternoon. She's 2.5 and fit as a fiddle. She was a hellish sleeper when she was wee, though.

my dd was like this before we discovered she has coeliacs, does he have any other problems, weight gain, behaviour, that sort of thing. Some kids do just sleep a lot I think but tthat is all people used to say to me.

I did briefly wonder about Coeilacs, a friend son has it and he "woke up" on a GF diet, But my lad doesn't seem to fit teh pattern of symptoms. GP says take him back if still V sleepy at end of MAy .
12.5 hours last night and over 3 hours this afternoon.

I think 12.5 hours at night is ok for that age. DS was sleeping at least as much at that age. However... he didn't have naps anymore.

Does he seem sleepy in general? Dd sleeps a lot but is Awake when she's up and about - but she is younger than your Ds as well.

He used to be very placid at the time. He was certainly not the running rowdy child he has become in the last years.

But didn't seem sleepy, quiet perhaps, but not sleepy.

whne hes awake he is very active, playing cricket, football, with cars, "helping" in garden and kitchen. Hes at preschool 3 am sessions and if hes awake we go to an toddler group on a forth morning. Swim once a week, rides his bike, plays at friends houses etc in the afternoons IF hes awake.

when hes been awake too long he becomes very grumpy and stroppy ( he IS 3 after all). If we're lucky he will ask to go to bed, if not we have to guess and tell him he needs 30 mins chill out in bed, he then falls asleep and is still blotto hours later.

I did pick his preschool sesions to let him have recovery mornings in between.
Thankfully he can nap 3-6 and still go to bed OK at 7.30.

Yes, dd can do the long sleep - up - dinner - bed thing. If he's really active and otherwise well, then he sounds a lot like dd, over whom I have no concerns, tbh - she just seems fine to me - she doesn't sleep on nursery days (2 a week) but will on at least 4 of the other 5 days.