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[quote=Anonymous]Our DS had 2 sleep studies (both while under 4 yrs old) and our DD has had 3 sleep studies.  We've done them at Children's Hospital and a pediatric sleep center in Fairfax.  While the one in Fairfax was easier logistically (parking, wait etc) the ones at Childrens Hospital were best for quality of staff and accuracy (yes, the fairfax location gave us a false reading showing severe apnea then the repeat study at children's showed almost normal).  Search apnea as there have been other threads on this.  Our ENT suggested our DS get his tonsils removed and a year later the surgeon said he wouldn't even operate on him because DS tonsils were normal??? and that removing them would have no impact on apnea... then a year later our DS sleep study showed normal.  Apparently tonsil size relative to child changes from 2-5yo and some kids just stop having apnea - surgeon at Childrens said even a millimeter of airway growth can make the difference in a 4-5yo.  We were skeptical but two years later the same thing happened for our DD.  And we were seeing doctors (ENT, Plastic Surgeon) at Children's.[/quote]

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