Helping your child sleep better and wake rested
Pediatric Sleep Program
Quality sleep is essential for your child’s health, development and wellbeing. If your child struggles with falling asleep, staying asleep, waking up frequently or waking up during the night make an appointment with their pediatrician and/or sleep specialist.
Wood County Hospital’s American Academy Sleep Medicine Accredited Sleep Disorders Center uses the latest sleep study technology. Our trained sleep technologists and board-certified sleep specialist are exceptionally skilled at testing, diagnosing and recommending treatments for children ages 13 and older.
Signs that your child may need a sleep study include:
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Snoring, with pauses, snorts or gasps between breaths
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Events during sleep, such as bedwetting, nightmares or sleepwalking
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Enlarged tonsils or adenoids
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Trouble getting out of bed in the morning
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Sleeping at school or acting out hyperactively
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Difficulty with behavior
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Declining academic performance
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Problems sleeping through the night
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Restless legs (and pain) during sleep
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Teeth grinding
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Trouble falling asleep
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Trouble maintaining a healthy weight
What is a sleep study?
A sleep study (polysomnogram) is a test that looks at what happens to your child’s body when they are sleeping. Overnight sleep studies are painless and performed in a private room. Accommodations can be made for a parent or guardian to stay during the child’s sleep study if needed.
Common pediatric sleep disorders include:
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Sleep apnea - changes in breathing throughout the night that interfere with quality of sleep and oxygen levels
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Insomnia - difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
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Narcolepsy - excessive daytime sleepiness, causing falling asleep at inappropriate times
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Sleep-related movement disorders - repetitive movements that interfere with sleep, such as restless leg syndrome
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Circadian rhythm disorders - internal body clock is out of sync with natural day and night cycles, sleep cycles happen later or earlier than expected
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Parasomnia - disruptive sleep disorder with wakefulness behavior that happens just before or during sleep; sleep walking, sleep talking, night terrors
Sleep studies are covered by most insurance companies and require a physician referral.
To schedule your child’s sleep study or for more information, call the Wood County Hospital Sleep Disorders Center at 419-373-4173.