SPD and Sleep Issues

It's common knowledge that having a child will result in less sleep for the parents, especially during the newborn stage.  The demands of a little bundle can be quite taxing, and one of the usual questions I got when R was a baby was, "Are you sleeping well enough?"

Usually the nights get better as the baby gets older.  But if you were to ask my mother, that was not the case with me.  She told me that at six or seven months old, when I learned to crawl, I would spend the evenings playing with my toys on the floor, while my poor exhausted parents dimmed the bedroom lights in efforts to get me to sleep.  All that was in vain as the dark didn't bother me at all and I continued to play into the night.

Fast forward some twenty something years, and R came into our lives.  I wouldn't say R wasn't a good sleeper, but he did go to bed later than most other babies I knew.  And so with his case of SPD came some sleep issues.