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My ds had been sleeping horribly at night, up for 3 hours straight every night for 8 days, then most of the next week too. A couple nights ago, I started thinking he has sleep apnea.
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I have a plan to work on it from a health perspective, but I don't know anything about how to deal with it in the mean time. I am so tired, and he must be too.
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The way I broke the cycle with up for 3 hours was to start putting him to bed later, since I was missing out on some solid sleep by not going to bed at 8pm. I started putting him to bed at 9/9:30 instead of 7/7:30. It has helped some, but he is still up a lot in the night.
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I normally would let him sleep in in the mornings and nap as long as he needed (unless it got too late in the afternoon). I recently told his daycare to wake him up after 3 hours, but now that I think it's sleep apnea, I'm thinking I should let him sleep whenever he can because he needs the rest, right?
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Any tips to help him sleep better? I have read to keep him on his side or tummy. I try to do this, but sometimes I just have to let him sleep how he wants because we both need sleep so badly.
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I am going to clean the hell out of our bedroom, get a hepa filter for that room, wash all of our bedding, get him an allergy cover for his mattress (I don't think I can afford one for our bed right now, but he naps and spends about half the night in his crib anyway).
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Other ideas? I'm kind of freaked out about this and really want to start making some progress as quickly as possible. TIA
