How long before bed do we give melatonin?

[Jimjams]

That's it- title says it all! half an hour???

i'm back.... as things are now i am 'happy' to see what the school think..... he still has friends- gets invited to parties....has good self esteem on the whole- BUT if he starts to feel different- which happed with L at age 6 (yr 2 ...which A will be in septemnber)...then i will 'start the ball rolling '....again.

He may be like dd and not actually have a label that fits!

At last we meet!!!!

yep....and i am happier with the school they are at....so feel confident that 'if' is a 'need' then it will be recognised.

That's really good news.

We are off to Bibic on the 30th March Mrs F! Have you heard of them???

quite common with AS that it 'shows prominently' around age 6....peaks at 9 then evens out till secondary school....so as i see it if i'm right in the next year we will have ....

'A' 'coming out' so to speak
'L' peaking at age 9
and 'T' starting secondary school

who ever said having 3yrs between the boys was a good ide...they be 6,9 & 12 this year!!!!

wow!!! i guess that's not on the NHS????

Well it is a charity so is subsidised.
We are going for 3 days and dd will be assessed by 7 professionals. They use a holistic approach to helping our kids and I will come home with a home programme.

Did you see my link to the asd site. I know you would love it on there!

Mrs F - you have disappeared on me again. What are you like???

here i am...just been sending you that Asperger's book.

if 'A' is found to have an ASD then i seriously would love to find somewhere like that place where we could ALL go and be 'observered' and helped!!!!

i went to a SN meeting last week and out of 15 families....7 of us had autistic children....and 4 of that 7 had at least 2 autistic children.

somehow the '1 in 250' figure i keep reading doesn't seem true!!!

Bibic website The first initial telephone interview is free. Mine was about 1 and a half hours. I have just never spoken to people who understand as much as these people do. I am no longer scared of dd's dx i just want to help as much as I can!

It is so scary that autism is on the up. I know so many severly autistic children it is untrue.

i am fortunate that my personal experience is not of classic autism.....and i suppose my boys are 'at the lighter end of the spectrum'....however there are days when all chaos lets loose with the 3 of them and i am physically using myself to be a barrier to protect each of them from each other---and i am about to have physio for my shoulder- which keeps coming out of it's socket....only really painful at night.....which i hate to say i think is due to 11 years of holding/restraining....and now being pulled around ...by my sons.

Mrs F My dd is almost on the edges of asd but it still really affects all of us as a family. So to have 3 children even at the mild end must be hard work. However you are always so positive and that really helps

have sent that book embedded as an email....so will take ages to get into your inbox....best you leave it overnight!!!!!!!!!

have sent that book embedded as an email....so will take ages to get into your inbox....best you leave it overnight!!!!!!!!!

Have received the book Mrs F. Thank you it was really interesting and useful x

well that didn't work- he bit the tablet in half then sppat it out. I grouond it up in cake and he spotted it. But then I realised that last time we tried the liquid melatonin he wouldn't drink orange juice, and now he is, so pput some in there- 20 minutes later he was snoozing like a baby (9.30 by now- we'd had an hour and a hlaf of screaming). SO THANK YOU DAVROS!!!!

JJ....HOOOOOORAY!!!! I was actually at a loss for words (yeah! amazing i know) when you described how sensitive your little man is to the taste of the melatonin.

i am soooooo lucky to not have had this problem.

so to read the sucess you have had with the orange juice is just fantastic....as i have said to me it truly is a miracle that within 20 mins the child who cannot normally drift of to sleep manages to sleep so well.

xxxx

good news jimjams