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[quote=Anonymous]My DS did this quite a bit around age 8-9. We found it more prevalent after he had a few nights of not sleeping well. When he was sleep deprived, it was much more common. He would come downstairs and talk nonsense. We would just gently lead him back to bed and tuck him in again.

Talked with the doctor a bit about this. She suggested we had to break the cycle with actually less sleep for a while. I know, it sounded crazy. His bedtime had been around 8pm, but he'd often wake up 45-70 min later (not sleepwalking) and not be able to get back to sleep, followed by sleepwalking some nights. What we did was keep him up until 10pm or so for a week, some nights he wouldn't sleep well but many he didn't wake during the night. He was tired in the morning but it did help break the cycle. Then we moved bedtime to 9. It worked like a charm - no more sleepwalking.

He still struggles sometimes with waking in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep, but the sleepwalking has been over for a year now.[/quote]

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