Every parent has heard another parent casually recommend giving melatonin to their child to help them fall asleep. Some parents use it on a regular basis and others may have used it once for something like an airplane ride. For many parents, they wonder how safe it is to take melatonin since it is a natural product. There are many factors that play into if melatonin is appropriate to introduce to a child.
Getting your child on a sleep schedule is a process that includes a lot of effort and time. Parents are understandably defensive of sticking to the schedule that they have invested so much into creating. Sometimes our plans for the day get derailed unexpectedly. Other times, we go into days knowing we can’t stick to our schedule if we want to take part in plans we can’t control. Once you have a solid foundation in place with your child sleeping, you can become more flexible. You have to think about the long game with sleep training.
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