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[quote=Anonymous]Our pediatrician said it is pretty benign and encouraged us to use it with son with ADHD whose medication makes it difficult to fall asleep. She said if you use the melatonin for a little while and he can't fall asleep when you stop it, it isn't because of the melatonin, it is because he couldn't fall asleep before either. Which is a good point. So try not to associate everything with the melatonin. Psychiatrist said there isn't research on long term use so try to make it short term. So we try not to use it all the time. But it is incredibly helpful with our kid who has a lot of struggles and REALLY needs the sleep.

We've used it a couple times with our 3 year old when returning from travel with time changes, only used it for 1-2 nights and there were no issues.

It could work, I think I remember you posting about the paci issue. I would personally just keep the paci but if he is still refusing it then I think it is reasonable to consider trying for a couple nights to get him back in a routine. But I'm not a dr of course. [/quote]

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