Well I had a phone call from the Dr, so this is before we have received the report.
I'll try and keep it brief. In a nutshell Oliver is getting enough sleep! She told me it's likely to be in his genetic makeup that he's waking up and having a period awake in the night and in "the olden days" apparently that's what people used to do and that's where the phrase midnight hour comes from
So I basically told her that he may be getting the required amount of sleep according to your statistics but as his mother I am telling you he is tired. She commended me on my strategies and said well done for not turning this sleep issue into a behavioural issue but basically at some point he'll probably stop doing it - maybe when he goes to school and is much more active during the day!
Other things she said and you girls will love this! Because we don't have to wake him in the morning and he isn't difficult to wake he must be getting enough sleep. Children who have not had enough sleep usually are very hard to wake up, b*llsh*t excuse my french! So girls what she is saying is if you have an EW it is NOT due to being OT.
I explained to her about how DS always lays himself down even when he's in a stimulating environment and she said children don't tend to show tiredness like this
please give me strength at this point and they show tiredness by getting hyper.
The next step is she is going to discuss his daytime behaviour with DS immunologist, sigh... yes that man who has very little time for me either. She then went on to say that DS's consultant is very happy with his progress and has no worries... I then proceeded to tell her he isn't the one who has to look after a tired child with health issues and it's only down to modification of our lifestyle that is helping to keep Oliver out of hospital.
I'm so over this. I don't know whether I really am that neurotic mother that should just now pull her head in or what.
Yesterday we had another long NW around 10.30pm and then he was awake well before 6am. I am struggling here now
