For any parents out there with lil ones, do you find that your kids are superactive and you can't get them to sleep at all? Do they pace around at odd hours of the night? Or do they sleep soundly?

My kids are hard to get to sleep -- especially the one who is already diagnosed with ADHD though my youngest is getting harder to get down lately too. Once they're asleep they sleep like the dead unless they have an accident in bed. Sleep problems are very common with ADHD kids -- going down, getting up, and sometimes in staying asleep. I have to have real routine and stick with it -- that seems to help, but it's still not always easy.

One doctor I heard talk on the subject said that we somehow expect our kids to stop being ADD at night and that just isn't what happens. He frequently puts his patients on a later dose of stimulent which helps them go to sleep better and also allows them to sleep through rebound if that is a problem. Stimulents keep some kids up but by in large he says most kids do fine with the later dose. I know my gal falls asleep like a rock on the airplane right after I gave her her Ritalin.

Scattered

My 5.5 y/o has ADHD and is medicated w/ter Catapres patch. He also takes melatonin at night and can now fall asleep after 20 minutes rather than 2 hours..may be worth talking w/your doc.

My son is having an overnight sleep study tomorrrow because he seems so tired all the time- as the sleep doc said, ADD kids (treated with stims or not) "tend not to sleep very well". (We're doing the study to rule-out sleep disorders that run in our family).

Good luck,
Amy in PA

my baby will be 4 a week from today. most active kid ive ever seen. :(

VERY hard to get her to sleep. she NEVER EVER EVER EVER stops moving, and that includes when she sleeps, which i think would be part of her problem? (??) ... how can one be sleeping soundly when they're moving. she jumps, stands up, twists, turns, sits, flips off the bed, and once in a while even walks AND throws full-blown tantrums all while shes sleeping. i thought it most unusual while it was pregnant with her that she lacked sleep-wake cycles, and now I know she does sleep, she's just still moving while she sleeps.

My 8 year old granddaughter drives us crazy, getting out of bed a dozen times to get a drink or go to the bathroom or complain about somethng hurting or itching or just not being able to get to sleep. And getting up in the night and crawling into bed with her mom. Eeep!

I know getting to sleep was always a problem for me, and the older I got the worse the problem got - I just couldn't seem to turn off my brain, thinking about what I had done during the day or what I didn't get done and what I needed to do tomorrow. Sometimes I would get up and get a headstart on getting the next day's list started.

ADD son -12 . has a hard time to get to sleep but will wake up with little or no problem-he was a morning person since he was born...

20 months old - she flips and twists and still wakes up in the midlle of the night to come to our bed. She is very dificult and she was difficult since birth.

7 months old baby-he slept all night since he was 1 month old. the only time when I have a problem putting him to sleep is when he is very tired-like we went out and miss his bed time.He is also a morning person....
What is interesting is that I reduced my cofee a lot with my daughter -and she came out so hyper, she was so in my womb-I can remeber I had to have two sonograms because they could not see her spine well-she was twisting and turning.
I drank much more cofee with my son and he is such a sound sleeper.

me(ADD)- It takes me long to fall asleep and it takes me long to wake up. Also I need about 10 hours of sleep to feel rested but I only get 7-as an average....