Sleep Soundly Melatonin, 2-Ounce Bottles (Pack of 3)

I was a little leery about using melatonin for my son but after reading the reviews I decided to give it a try. My son, who has special needs, was going through a rough patch and couldn't get to sleep at night. My doctor recommended melatonin. I chose this one based on others reviews myself. I give him two droppers an hour before bed and it immediately calms him and settles him for sleep. As others have mentioned, I give my son a "break" every month for about a week or so. I did notice that his night time sleep patterns would get disturbed, he'd be wide awake at 4:30. When that happened I would give him a break, he'd go down fine (because he was so tired from waking up early) and when I noticed him have trouble settling we would use it again. He has actually been off for a month now because he is going down fine without it. I think it's a great product: great value, non habit forming, and as no funky taste!

I normally don't write reviews but this stuff is awesome. My daughter has an extreme case of ADHD and even after waking up at 6:00 a.m. and having a day full of non stop playing, she fights her sleep everyday and will not actually fall asleep until midnight. After doing about 5 hours research and not finding any negative side effects I thought I'd try it. The best thing about it is that it taste like sugar so you can put it in milk or juice without them knowing. She can always tell if her apple juice or milk tastes different, but not with this. Some say it works within 5 minutes but my girl still takes around 30minutes to finally wind down then within the next 30 minutes, she passes out. Just ran out tonight and its going to be a long night I can tell. I don't understand how these kids can keep going all day non stop and still be wide awake at night. My daughter gets 10x better sleep with this and isnt cranky the next day from not getting enough deep sleep. If you are questioning whether it is healthy or not, I would say it's definitely healthier for your kids to get a full nights sleep and be well rested.

I've been using this for my 7 year old for a couple of years. Prior to this, bedtime was a real beast, no matter how tired he was, where he would spend an hour and more playing, jumping up and down on and off the bed, and be completely hyper until he would finally quit and fall asleep. There was no way he would fall asleep early enough on school nights on his own. Now, I give him half or a little less than half of the dropper - he weighs 60lbs - in his night time juice, and he calms down, and about 30 - 45 minutes later, he is ready to get into bed for story time. The taste is so faint that you can hide it in almost anything, which I have to do, but it's not at all unpleasant if you want to use it straight from the bottle. This has let my child get the sleep he needs and saved my sanity. It's also great for me since I am a light sleeper and can't get back to sleep if I'm woken up. Just take a dropper full and I won't be staring at the ceiling for hours waiting for morning.

Some will tell you melatonin supplements are "snake oil" and only trick you into thinking you'll fall asleep, so you do. I can say that Sleep Soundly does work, since my special needs daughter can't be given a placebo, since she is non-verbal and wouldn't understand the implication. My daughter's sleep cycle is very easily interrupted by something as simple as an inactive day (uncommon, but occasionally we have a lazy weekend), and for years whenever this happened, we were having trouble getting her back on cycle. She would be up all night and then have trouble staying awake the next day... until we found this. Sleep Soundly warns it's not for children, so before giving it to her, we talked with our pediatrician and she said that it's safe enough that we could even give it to our toddler without ill effect; there's simply no way to overdose on melatonin (definitely talk to your pediatrician before giving this product to children, though. Never believe everything you read on the internet!).

Our pediatrician suggested a melatonin supplement to help our 3-year-old have a better sleep schedule. My husband is a night owl and she had slowly joined his routine. My daughter throws a fit anytime I try to giver her anything like medication and can only find pills and chewable tabs locally. I was so glad to find these drops on Amazon. I add the drops to a small amount of sugar-free punch. She has no problems with it and will sometimes even ask for her "night time" drink. I have tried pills for myself in the past, but these drops work much faster. I would describe the taste as citrus and a tad odd. It bothered me at first, but now it is fine. The directions say to take 2 ml, which should be 2 dropper fulls. I could not get the dropper to fill to the 1 ml mark, so I usually just fill it to the 0.75 ml mark 3 times, close enough. There is a 0.25 ml mark but it's harder to get it to that amount. My sister and I were discussing melatonin supplements for our kids and I told her I had found drops on Amazon and she said she did too. I described the bottle (the name had escaped me) and they are the same ones she ordered, she loves this product too. I just ordered my second time through Subscribe 'n Save and can't wait for it to arrive.