What A Night
Well the short answer to what happened last night is this: the weighted blanket didn’t help. Last night was just a horrible night, my dear sweet husband took the brunt of it. We tried our typical bedtime routine with my daughter and within five minutes she came running and screaming out of her room petrified of who knows what. Instead of talking her into going back in there her and I piled into my bed. Mind you she goes to bed early - 6:30pm or so; I’m not always ready to go to bed at that time. However I really didn’t have much choice, thankfully she cooperated and let me watch TV - it didn’t seem to distract her last night.
I managed to get her to sleep and after about an hour in my bed we moved her to her bed and under her nice, new weighted blanket. Within two hours she was up and out, absolutely petrified. My husband was still awake and put her to sleep on the couch (he was working on his laptop). He moved her to her bed at one point and then he went to sleep. Something caused her to wake up and she broke into the refrigerator and ate one of my son’s cups of super pudding (homemade pudding, special recipe, lots of calories). Something must have caught my husband’s attention because he got up; evidently there was a bit of a chocolate mess that needed to be tended to so he did. He then crawled on the couch with my daughter and tried to cuddle her back to sleep.
Being the sweet man that he is he let me get some sleep last night as I haven’t been feeling well (I got a nasty sunburn on vacation and am still sunburned five days later). I don’t know what it is about children with autism having sleep issues but egad this is wearing me thin. On another blog that I read (Autism - A Blog On The Spectrum) a mother has talked about how she’s been dealing with the sleep issues for seven years now…that’s a long time. I’m only going on year four and am already drained. Calgon…take me away!
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