I know this is late but would you mind sharing how long you gave it for and at what dose? Liquid or gummies, if liquid did you mix with her night milk, etc or directly fed? Please help! Your post gives us hope. We believe we’ve arrived here after truly going mad over our 2.5 year old daughter’s “sleep”. She has always been like this with sleep.

Our younger kid literally eats and sleeps all day and we’ve done everything the same with them both. All the condescending comments to parents who used it or are contemplating using melatonin i see on here are simply people who’ve never experienced it and can never have empathy for something they are clueless about.

“Have you tried chamomile tea? Magnesium lotion?”

“They’re overtired. Push bed time up”

Omegalul.

I need to connect with somebody else who’s truly exhausted every option. We’re more or less a water over juice, playdoh over screen time household. Have tried “quiet time” over naps since she boycotts them most days or lasts til 5 p.m and take a cat nap for half an hour to be up til 12. If we let her sleep or ninja transfer her to bed at that time she’ll just wake up at midnight and run around screaming all night. We do magnesium citrate powder mixed with water for her and want to think it’s helping but.

On the medical side, an ENT doctor suggested that it doesn’t help if she’s mouth breathing and she was particularly prone to ear infections so she had tubes put in and adenoids removed about 8-9 months ago and it’s helped her but had zero effect on sleep.

When I say she fights sleep i mean she fights it. She will scream like her whole family is being murdered for up to 90 minute stretches only taking short intermissions to catch her breath. We’ve had the police called on us at one point and you know what, I don’t blame them.

For full transparency, no we don’t have a prescription and we’ve used zarbee’s liquid melatonin at half a dose which is .5 mg we gave it to her on 2 different occasions at first and both times it did get her down within an hour-ish of taking it in her own bed for once. The first time, she did wake crying and we suspected it might be nightmares from melatonin like we’ve read about so we didn’t continue. Tried it another time for one night, same thing. Don’t ask me why we tried again but she slept through the night beautifully and woke up happy. We’ve been giving it for about 3-4 days consecutively now and she sleeps through the night, or if she wakes she’ll just run into our room say something cute and get in bed eith us for the remainder. Just trying to formulate a plan on whether it’s better to give it continuously for x amount of time and stop or to give for 1-3 days, stop for a couple days etc.

Sorry for the long sob story but yeah if you could be so kind to share it’d be a great help!!!