He took an unexpected nap at daycare (he's napped maybe three times in the past month?). This meant I was prepared for a later bedtime. It went later than I would have liked (I sat in the rocker for 45 minutes) but not completely insane: 9:00.
I woke up at 4:00 and hadn't heard a peep. He woke up maybe half an hour later, so I spent the 4-5 hour awake. He came into my bed and up for the day at 6:30. So not a lot of sleep (that's 10.5 hrs in a 24 hr period, which is more like an older child than a 3 year old). But only one request for milk, and when I reminded him it had to be in a sippy, he didn't want it. Definitely getting easier on that score, but I'll give it a few days before I describe this as a TREND.
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I have a call in to the sleep clinic because one of the totally amateur observations I made is that most of his moments of central apnea (for those of you who don't know, that's not the same as the OSA people have when they snore; it's a brain glitch that doesn't send a signal to breathe) occurred during REM sleep. And if numbers on the internet are any indication...he gets less REM sleep than most ADULTS. I sort of unscientifically wonder if that's a self-protective mechanism? Like, he stops breathing during REM sleep so doesn't get much of it? Like I said, totally unscientific but I'm going to ask about it.
I woke up at 4:00 and hadn't heard a peep. He woke up maybe half an hour later, so I spent the 4-5 hour awake. He came into my bed and up for the day at 6:30. So not a lot of sleep (that's 10.5 hrs in a 24 hr period, which is more like an older child than a 3 year old). But only one request for milk, and when I reminded him it had to be in a sippy, he didn't want it. Definitely getting easier on that score, but I'll give it a few days before I describe this as a TREND.
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I have a call in to the sleep clinic because one of the totally amateur observations I made is that most of his moments of central apnea (for those of you who don't know, that's not the same as the OSA people have when they snore; it's a brain glitch that doesn't send a signal to breathe) occurred during REM sleep. And if numbers on the internet are any indication...he gets less REM sleep than most ADULTS. I sort of unscientifically wonder if that's a self-protective mechanism? Like, he stops breathing during REM sleep so doesn't get much of it? Like I said, totally unscientific but I'm going to ask about it.
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