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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*10/7 update
I wasn’t able to read the responses until 8:45, so consider that I may implement them beginning tomorrow.

3yo did not nap today despite driving at 6pm.

8:30 gave each of them .5g melatonin and started bedtime 
9:25 simple story and goodnight to 3yo, hugged and lovingly/firmly walked out. Didn’t seem to hear him beyond 2 minutes.
9:30 same with 5yo. He asked me for sleepy music but I told him I needed my phone for a few minutes, I’d bring it back in a little while. When I checked back at 9:35 he was out cold.
9:35 same with 9yo. She was pretty much out when we hugged her. She has been easy this year, thank goodness.

So our first 9:30ish evening in several months begins. Thanks you all, and melatonin.[/quote]

OMG! Your kid doesn’t need drugs! He needs an earlier bedtime!

Going to sleep at 9:30 is ridiculously late for a 3 year old who doesn’t nap. Poor kid. You’re really screwing up his circadian rhythm with forcing him awake in the afternoon and drugging him at night. Just start bedtime at 6:30 and be done with it.

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I don't think you get it.  Kids that struggle to go to bed at night CAN'T fall asleep.  The earlier I tried to get her to bed, the longer it took.  She doesn't know how to get her brain to settle.  Melatonin was a lifesaver and helped establish a bedtime routine that was literally impossible before.  I tried for years.    [/quote]

I am the PP who worked with a sleep clinic. The earlier bedtime does not work for all kids with disrupted sleep. For some it’s a complicated “sleep consolidation” proceeds. At some point, we had to drop nap and keep kid awake till 9 - 9:30. Everyone is different. Ps real MD not “sleep consultant.”[/quote]

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