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From: Carmen
Date: 18 Oct 2012
Time: 03:05:43 -0500
Remote Name: 130.240.135.198
Hi Sandra, I want to thank you for sharing this information to us. Your hypothesis makes a lot of sense and it might be very helpful, we'll see. I can confirm that my 3 1/2 years son had big problems with snoring (tonsilitis-amigdalitis), sleep apnea and most important, not enough sleep. We live very up north, and during winter the nights are that long that even I felt I never got enough sleep. Now I look back and I think it was cruel to wake him up in the darkness and drive him to day-care when he always wanted to sleep more. Strange enough, the onset of his stuttering was 3 months after the adenoids and tonsils surgery, when his breathing finally became normal during sleep. But then exactly around the onset we decided to help his sleep hygiene by cutting the 2 hours day-naps at day-care. Summer started and it was light all day long and again, obviously, late evenings and less sleep than needed. I shall definitely try from now on to respect his biological clock and make his sleep a priority. It is a bit hard because I assume he inherited information from our metabolism and we, his parents, (and all his ancestors) had lived 3500 km south. Sandra, do you think we should introduce the napping again? (if possible) Have you had clients in a similar situations, age, for which naps made a difference? I should mention that his father started to stutter at about the same age and he also had the adenoids and tonsils previously removed because of snoring and bad sleeping. An interesting article connected to this subject: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3095909/