For those of you who have children who take melatonin, does the time released make a big difference? And also, do your kids tend to wet the bed more when taking the melatonin?
Youngest Ds struggles to get to sleep at night, sometimes not falling to sleep until midnight. When he does finally go to sleep he wakes again by 3 a.m. He's been all over the map lately, and now that the holidays are over we don't have those distractions/schedule upheavals that could be the culprit. We did not do anything on New Year's, so there have been no major routine changes for over two weeks.
Last night after falling to sleep around 10:30 p.m. (after the melatonin kicked in) he wet the bed around 2 a.m. He was awake then, being all wet and cold, and wanted to stay up and play.
He suggested snacks, playing, television, etc. I was NOT awake and was uninterested in snacking, playing, or anything else. Mean Me made him go back to bed after getting him, the bedding, and the floor cleaned up. (The liquid absorbing on the top side, water-proof on the underside mattress pad must have been put on wrong side up or something as everything except the pad was soaked and there was a puddle on the floor where everything had 'dripped over' as well.
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This is fairly typical, except that if he doesn't take the melatonin he doesn't fall asleep before midnight and he doesn't wet the bed. Then in the a.m. he's tired when he wakes up and often needs a nap by 10 a.m. again. We can do that, I suppose, but he's just so much happier when he gets proper sleep AT NIGHT.
Now, in between doing the regular and extra laundry and re-cleaning the mattress and floor, I'm trying to figure out how to get some sleep tonight for both Ds and I. He just does so much better when he gets some sleep at night.
(As do I!!)
Any thoughts?