While the snoring associated with sleep apnea in children doesn’t have to be loud, loud snoring may indicate a greater likelihood of sleep apnea – especially if in conjunction with some of the other symptoms mentioned below. However, snoring can be a signal that perhaps your child has sleep apnea – especially if your child snorts or gasps while snoring or appears to suck in this chest. In fact, 20 percent of children snore on occasion with between seven and 10 percent of children snore most nights. Of course, snoring is not always a sign of something wrong. This isn’t the usual course of things when looking for signs of sleep apnea in children. Most parents expect the snoring associated with sleep apnea to be loud, as is often the case with adults. Top 10 signs and symptoms that indicate your child may potentially have sleep apnea. That is why it is so important for you to be on the lookout for these: Sleep apnea is a condition that affects nearly three percent of children, according to a scholarly article appearing in the Korean Journal of Pediatrics. One of your biggest fears is that something would come along to compromise the health of your child or place that health at risk. But don't be surprised if something like sleep talking or even sleep walking takes it place.As parents, you want the best for your child. So keep an eye on her sleep pattern and see if it goes away as she grows up. It's all about the brain growing and working better. The brain seems to mature enough by age 5-6 to have it no longer happen. It appears as a violent nightmare but yet they don't remember a thing and will fall back into deep sleep once the brain lets them.Īs long as all she is doing is the rapid breathing and small skips in breathing, that is okay and nothing to worry about.
Something disturbs their sleep when they are in 4th stage deep sleep and they can't wake up. Night terrors can be very bad if the child appears awake and can run and hide as my son did. I have 1 child who talked in her sleep and one with night terrors and both outgrew the behavior around age 5-6.except the night terror kid then began to talk in his sleep and still does at age 33. But she's all over the bed, and she falls out of her bed most nights (she even has a pillow and blanket on the floor now because she figures she'll end up there anyway!).Īnyway, does anyone know what could possibly be going on with this kid? It's kind of frustrating because I don't know the right questions to ask the doctor! Help? While the sleep issues are happening (when she's in my room and I can observe her) she doesn't seem bothered at all by it. #3 is a very sweet little girl, but she is somewhat hyper, very willful, and she will NOT sit still to save her life! I know that's a lot to do with her age, but I do wonder if it's not from sleep issues as well? I'm in a position to notice it more, because she comes to sleep with me a lot of nights now that her baby sister moved out of my room! She does do it more when she is overtired, but she also does it even when she shouldn't be overtired. Well, it's happened several more times in the past year and a half, and I'm realizing it's NOT night terrors or being overtired. It had been a very long day, with no naps, and I assumed she was overtired.
So I first noticed the sleep issues (that's the all encompassing term which in this post means gasping, rapid breathing - my definition of rapid breathing is breathing fast and hard-, & breathing pauses for just a few seconds at a time) again while we were still building our new house. At the moment, I feel like the world's worst mother! Looking back, I'm realizing that around that same time, I got pregnant with my 4th baby, we were trying to sell our house, move to a new state, and build a new house, then the baby came, and there was a whole new truckload of baby worries to deal with! #3's sleep issues went straight out of my head. I started putting her to bed earlier and made sure she stayed well rested, and I assumed it stopped. When #3 was 17 months old, I was told it was probably night terrors (at the time, she made occasional squeaking sounds while gasping and breathing fast and not breathing for seconds at a time), and night terrors made sense, so I didn't think much of it. She's #3, and the other 2 never did anything like this. She's done this ever since she was a baby.
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