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[quote=Anonymous]Our ped recommended it for my horrible sleeper. He'd fight bedtime and then eventually go to sleep but when he awoke at 2am he'd have gotten just enough rest to fight going back to sleep and be up from 2-5am. So for the past year or so I've given it to him for like a week (.5mg) then wean down over a few nights and then he's fine for a bit. Eventually he'll hit a bad spell again and start over again. This is one of those things were its picking between two not awesome options. There is a lot of research about how important sleep is for brain growth, development, behavior, emotional regulation etc. Chronically not getting enough sleep can cause real harm both long term and short term (too tired to learn, acting out at school, etc). So to the people saying "i'd never do it!" - that's cool but you've got to weigh both sides of the equation when you have a truly bad sleeper. You're not picking between a potential unknown vs something entirely neutral[/quote]
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