Guest guest Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 > > >>Generally Ricky is a sound sleeper and easy to fall >>asleep. The thing is he may or may not sleep long. >>Most of the time in the afternoon he will sleep long, >>therefore I made it right after lunch. Just watch, >>that day he will be wide awake >> With Teddy, we had really early ABRs that were a nightmare...we were trying to keep him asleep, because they don't like to sedate kids younger than three months or so. Those ABRs we had (unsedated) were very stressful to administer -- one took four hours! When he was three and a half years old, we finally had an ABR where they sedated him with chloryl hydrate (I talked to my pediatrician first, who assured me it was generally the safest way to sedate little ones). THAT was finally the ABR that was actually accurate. We learned that we'd had his hearing aids turned up a little too high, which also was so stressful. The other thing to remember is, they are going to ensure that they go up to the threshold of residual hearing, so if he has any hearing at all, he's going to hear the loudest sounds they make, which can also wake him up. That was another benefit to us of sedation. My $0.02 --kerri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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