Answer: First of all I am a Male but I have sleep apnea and have done a whole lot of research on it! Where you are is the best place you can be for you and your child period! I promise you that you will definitely feel better when you get through with your sleep study sessions and start treatment!Usually you will have one night study where they will determine the exact things that disturb your sleep. There are things like leg twich and other things that also disturb sleep! Anyway after the first session if you really have sleep apnea and have so many events of stopping of breathing or blocking of breathing during the night you will be prescribed a second night to determine the proper air pressure that a device called a CPAP should be set so that you can get quality sleep!Quality sleep is when your brain goes into a level of deep sleep it is refered to as REM because your eyes jerk around rapidly (rapid eye movement) in this state. It is the level where your brain gets to sleep! The body is on automatic. With my sleep apnea what happens is the automatic breathing fails! What happens is the brain sences that it is not getting Oxygen and wakes up just enough to signal the lungs to breath a gasp of air! Now I am still asleep !What happened to me personally in a simple operation was I just stopped breathing and the anesthesia kept me asleep and I nearly DIED! A PERSON WHO WAS REAL DRUNK WOULD DIE! THIS SCARED ME AND MY WIFE GOT ME TO A SLEEP LAB!Anyway the sleep lab has improved my whole outlook on life! Since I have been doing these questions I know that the treating of sleep apnea helps depression and all sorts of things. I personally lost 75 or so pounds just by breathing air!I know that you will really feel much better once you get used to the CPAP machine! It will take about 2 to 3 weeks to get used to it probably 6 weeks and you will not notice it!