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**please - urgent help needed with baby**
hi,can somebody please help me as i do not know how much longer i can cope. i have a 23 month old toddler girl who has always been a very bad sleeper since birth, but for the past 2 weeks has been waking between 15-20 times a night screaming uncontrollably. this lasts for about 10 minutes, and nothing i do will soothe her until she drops off to sleep again. as i work, this is an extremely difficult time for me, and i am also pregnant with my second child and due to give birth in 6 wks time. can somebody please advise what i can give her to help her? she has also been having severe tantrums for the past month, before that she used to be a very happy and pleasant baby.
i feel like i am close to a nervous breakdown as i cannot cope anymore and soon i will have another baby to look after. please can somebody help me???
below is some info about her which may help in her diagnosis:
age: 23 months old
health: was born by c-section with severe breathing difficulties which lasted about 6 months. up to last month, constantly had a runny nose with green thick mucous. has also had pneumonia twice and tonsilitis which were all treated using antibiotics.
other info: was breastfed for 4 months and then on to formula milk which she still drinks once a day. is a very fussy eater, but likes sweet things. is normal weight and height, has a round face with curly black hair.
temperament: is usually very loving and wants lots of love and cuddles from me, but for the past month has severe temper tantrums which i cannot control. sleeps in the same room as my husband and me, and is a very loved child. at night likes to sleep without a pillow and blanket and is always tossing and turning and moaning in her sleep. she is always very congested in her nose at night and has to sleep with her mouth open.
sorry to provide so much information, but i love my daughter very much and just want her to get better.
skhan1972 on 2007-06-25
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See how far the following fits your child.
The baby need not have all the symptoms mentioned here.But, the symptoms she has should be there in the medicine.
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Chamomilla is an important children's remedy for colic, restlessness, teething, earache, colds, diarrhea. Chamomilla is helpful for teething pain with irritability.
Earaches that accompany teething or diarrhea. Gum irritation, mild fever, sore throat, mild diarrhea, irritability associated with teething.
Number 1 remedy for the peevish, irritable baby or child. Colic for the baby that pulls his legs up and screams. This child is very complaining and vocal. Pain tolerance is low for this baby. Snappy and contrary to anything the parents try to do to comfort the child. Baby cries no matter what you do to entertain them. They quickly refuse what they have just asked for. They may throw temper tantrums when frustrated. Yet they like to be carried. They feel hot, are worse with heat and worse in the evening prior to midnight.
Chamomilla and childhood disorders go hand in hand. Chamomilla children are those whiny, colicky kids that you just can't seem to make happy. Dr. Charles Hempel called Chamomilla the 'catnip of homeopathy'. Happy part of the day, but temperamental and explosive if frustrated. If given the object they are yelling for, they are still dissatisfied. The key to deciding to use Chamomilla is the child's emotional state. For instance, use Chamomilla for infant teething and colic, when the child is irritable and restless. Childhood disorders. When ill, child has one cheek that is red and hot, the other cheek is pale and cool. Pain seems unbearable. Better from: being carried around constantly, cold applications, warm wet weather. Worse from: any pain, heat application, at night, open air or wind blowing on them
Chamomilla's Mini Materia Medica:
Children: Useful for teething with irritability, pain, diarrhea. Colic, earache. Overly sensitive to illness and pain. Snappy and contrary, yet likes being carried. Child feels hot, is worse with heat and in the evening up to midnight. When ill, one cheek is red and hot, the other cheek seems paler and cool.
Colic: Helpful for colic with gripping gas pains, flatulence, distended abdomen, better with legs drawn up.
Diarrhea: Useful for diarrhea during dentition. Watery, slimy stools, like 'chopped eggs and spinach'.
Earache: Helpful for earache with pain that seems unbearable. Worse with heat. Ears feel as if they are plugged up
Insomnia: Helpful for restlessness in infants, children, woman.
Mental: Useful for impatient, restless, irritable, snappish mental states. Whining, moaning when they dont get their way. Child can only be quieted when carried or held. Extremely sensitive to pain, wants relief NOW. Angry, especially if spoken to or looked at. Asks for things, then refuses them. Impatient, Angry.
Pain: Beneficial for intolerance of pain, fainting and/or sweating from pain
Toothache: Helpful for teething when cold relieves pain. Teething with diarrhea. One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cool. Dental pain.
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I edited most of it from the following url, and gave you the gist of it.
The information is authentic.
http://www.elixirs.com/products.cfm?productcode=S71
Murthy
The baby need not have all the symptoms mentioned here.But, the symptoms she has should be there in the medicine.
*********
Chamomilla is an important children's remedy for colic, restlessness, teething, earache, colds, diarrhea. Chamomilla is helpful for teething pain with irritability.
Earaches that accompany teething or diarrhea. Gum irritation, mild fever, sore throat, mild diarrhea, irritability associated with teething.
Number 1 remedy for the peevish, irritable baby or child. Colic for the baby that pulls his legs up and screams. This child is very complaining and vocal. Pain tolerance is low for this baby. Snappy and contrary to anything the parents try to do to comfort the child. Baby cries no matter what you do to entertain them. They quickly refuse what they have just asked for. They may throw temper tantrums when frustrated. Yet they like to be carried. They feel hot, are worse with heat and worse in the evening prior to midnight.
Chamomilla and childhood disorders go hand in hand. Chamomilla children are those whiny, colicky kids that you just can't seem to make happy. Dr. Charles Hempel called Chamomilla the 'catnip of homeopathy'. Happy part of the day, but temperamental and explosive if frustrated. If given the object they are yelling for, they are still dissatisfied. The key to deciding to use Chamomilla is the child's emotional state. For instance, use Chamomilla for infant teething and colic, when the child is irritable and restless. Childhood disorders. When ill, child has one cheek that is red and hot, the other cheek is pale and cool. Pain seems unbearable. Better from: being carried around constantly, cold applications, warm wet weather. Worse from: any pain, heat application, at night, open air or wind blowing on them
Chamomilla's Mini Materia Medica:
Children: Useful for teething with irritability, pain, diarrhea. Colic, earache. Overly sensitive to illness and pain. Snappy and contrary, yet likes being carried. Child feels hot, is worse with heat and in the evening up to midnight. When ill, one cheek is red and hot, the other cheek seems paler and cool.
Colic: Helpful for colic with gripping gas pains, flatulence, distended abdomen, better with legs drawn up.
Diarrhea: Useful for diarrhea during dentition. Watery, slimy stools, like 'chopped eggs and spinach'.
Earache: Helpful for earache with pain that seems unbearable. Worse with heat. Ears feel as if they are plugged up
Insomnia: Helpful for restlessness in infants, children, woman.
Mental: Useful for impatient, restless, irritable, snappish mental states. Whining, moaning when they dont get their way. Child can only be quieted when carried or held. Extremely sensitive to pain, wants relief NOW. Angry, especially if spoken to or looked at. Asks for things, then refuses them. Impatient, Angry.
Pain: Beneficial for intolerance of pain, fainting and/or sweating from pain
Toothache: Helpful for teething when cold relieves pain. Teething with diarrhea. One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cool. Dental pain.
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I edited most of it from the following url, and gave you the gist of it.
The information is authentic.
http://www.elixirs.com/products.cfm?productcode=S71
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
this is the reply to your mail.
please give your baby CHAMOMILLA 30C three times a day for two days.
if the sleep pattern doesnt improve, give her CHAMOMILLA 200C only one dose on the the third day.
alternate remedy is PULSATILLA 200C two doses a day at 10 to 12 hours gap for two days.
symptoms like these can be treated either with CHAMOMILLA or PULSATILLA depending on the personality of the baby.
violent stubborn babies are treated with chamomilla and lovely cute babies with pulsatilla.
i believe one of the remedies would take care.
best wishes.
please give your baby CHAMOMILLA 30C three times a day for two days.
if the sleep pattern doesnt improve, give her CHAMOMILLA 200C only one dose on the the third day.
alternate remedy is PULSATILLA 200C two doses a day at 10 to 12 hours gap for two days.
symptoms like these can be treated either with CHAMOMILLA or PULSATILLA depending on the personality of the baby.
violent stubborn babies are treated with chamomilla and lovely cute babies with pulsatilla.
i believe one of the remedies would take care.
best wishes.
♡ rishimba last decade
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