To Sleep or Not to Sleep?! - Green Bay,WI

LET him sleep. Do not wake him.

My son, has been known to sleep for 14 hours straight. When he was sick or going through a growth spurt.
This is when he was younger.
I let him, sleep.
I did not wake him even at meal times.
And it did NOT... make him be up all night.
He still slept, at his normal times.

Your son is very sick.
Sleep, actually allows the body to heal.
He needs... to sleep.
Let him.

Watch his symptoms... per the Pneumonia.
This is can be very serious. Good thing he is on antibiotics.
Recovering from it, can take a long time.

Let him sleep. Sleep is just as important, if not more so, than antibiotics. It is the way our body deal with the infection. When we're asleep our body can expend more energy towards healing than when we're awake and our body has to deal with our surroundings.

I have had my own experiences with pneumonia and random infections.

I have always been advised to get as much sleep as possible.

I think you should let your little one sleep as much as he needs to.
If he wakes and his hungry or needs to pee, assist him, but otherwise, just let him sleep.

With my last course of pneumonia, I literally slept 20 hours a day. I didn't care about food. Nothing tasted good to me.

I would let your son sleep and schedule another medical appointment just to check up on things.

Being this sick, I wouldn't wake him while he's sleeping.

Just my opinion.

The million dollar question!

I have always found that mine, when that ill, still go to bed at regular times. Even when they have slept the whole day. Think about when you are sick and want nothing more then to sleep. You still go to bed and it doesn't matter that you just slept the day away.

Now if he is in general a poor sleeper, as a few of mine have been, I might wake him up and see how cranky he is. If you really have to fight him to wake him, it's probably better to just leave him be.

His body really does need the sleep.

Poor little guy. :(

I'm in the camp of NEVER wake a sleeping kid.

Years after my so was done with naps, I knew that, for him, a snooze on the couch = waking up with a fever and the start of something...but still, I would let him sleep.

Their little bodies know when they need sleep.

If you are ok with being up all night, let him sleep. ; ) really, I have done both ways but anything over 5pm and he will be awake. Poor thing needs sleep!