He sleeps

Hen fell asleep at 7:23p.m. tonight. After much consideration and a conversation with his pediatrician, we decided to give melatonin a try. I gave him one quarter of a 3mg tablet. Within fifteen minutes, he had yawned three times and was ready to cuddle. After five minutes of cuddling, he was asleep. They are doing work on our building and just informed us they need to test the fire alarms. The boy has slept through the first alarm test. This may very well be the answer we have been looking for. I'm not at all excited about using medication to help him sleep. It seems like this should be something he does on his own. We have had a few nights here and there when it seemed as if we had cracked the sleep code but it always reverted to Hen being unable to wind down. He would stay up much longer than he should given his age, and he would wake the next morning and be irritable, which in turn made me irritable, which made my husband not want to come home. But what I saw tonight was magical, although the boy denied being tired even as dark circles were forming under his eyes and his yawns were echoing through the condo. He doesn't give up easy, this one. I'm curious to see how tomorrow goes. I'm hoping this will help our little one get the sleep he so clearly needs.