2-yrs-old sleeps badly _{Page 6 of 15}

Hi Murthy,

I'm glad you don't think I am that big of a mess... I was already thinking you worry a lot about me :-)!
But I have to tell you, that you have a good instinct - even if kali carb was just on example and a wild guess.

Your example was interesting. I have been working (before the move) as eductor teaching self management. You can't manage yourself before you know who you are. So I know a lot about this field.
These homeopathic views of man give me different kind of perspective. Although I get quite confused with them: how can a outlook affect your personality..?

I read about phosphorus. It is difficult to estimate a age of two, but somehow I don't feel familiar with the whole picture.
I still don't understand, even if you have explained me, what are the most important symptoms. I do understand what it comes to acute cases. But how do you specify them in chronical cases? You said to watch the changes, but in chronical case there is no change.

Last night was different: the both boys (I don't know who was crying first) were up before midnight, but then slept until 6 am. I don't rememeber when I have been sleeping 6 hours without waking up!

Maria

Hi,

Just to inform you, that there is excema on the knees and behind the knees of my 2-years-old.
So in this case we are going worse.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

I saw the red spots just this afternoon. The knees have been dry lately and I have been waiting them to turn red.

I have used during all his life basic, fragrance free lotion. Twice a day. It helps itching for the moment.

This evening I don't have any news. He has been sleeping waking up twice a night, every three-four hours.
For the last two days he has been eating badly (that is not news. News is when he eats well).

Maria
Maria

Hi Magicure,
I don't know if it makes sense I post every day, but I'll do it anyway:
Last night was terrible. The 2-year-old cried "Mama!" every time the pacifier dropped out the mounth. Maybe 7-8 times...
I took him by me in the middle of the night. But this time even this didn't help. Only putting the hand on his face was helping

Maria

Hi belsmama,

Thank you - I will as well remember you!

I have too boys and they have a silent agreement among themselves: when the 2-years-old sleeps well, the 4-years-old (who normally sleeps well) takes care that the parents don't sleep.

So far I don't see any humour in this...

Maria

Hi belsmama,

Thank you - I will as well remember you!

I have too boys and they have a silent agreement among themselves: when the 2-years-old sleeps well, the 4-years-old (who normally sleeps well) takes care that the parents don't sleep.

So far I don't see any humour in this...

Maria

Hi Magicure,

My son has been sleeping badly last three nights. Wakes up several times, a pacifier in the mounth all the time, wants me to put my arm around him.
I, myself, am sore because of sleeping on one side all night. He woke immediately when I tried to turn myself.

Nothing new has been happening during days. He has not watched videos/tv, I don't see any reason for nightmares.

He has not been eating either for 3 days. Yesterday he ate only some grapes and a biscuit, but wanted to have a lot of milk.

Excema is not worse. Actually I haven't seen him scratching for a while.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

My son has been sleeping badly last three nights. Wakes up several times, a pacifier in the mounth all the time, wants me to put my arm around him.
I, myself, am sore because of sleeping on one side all night. He woke immediately when I tried to turn myself.

Nothing new has been happening during days. He has not watched videos/tv, I don't see any reason for nightmares.

He has not been eating either for 3 days. Yesterday he ate only some grapes and a biscuit, but wanted to have a lot of milk.

Excema is not worse. Actually I haven't seen him scratching for a while.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

Before we do anything further I try one thing: I gave him Chamomilla 30k this night just before going to bed.

My husband started wondering why he keeps his fingers in the mounth and the chin is wet all the time. He checked his teeth and said, that althought all his teeth are almost ready, there is a loose skin on one tiny tooth. He said it looked odd and it might be bothering him.

I asked the boy does it hurt in the mounth, he denied that. But I try first with Chamomilla.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

Well.... you were more than right. Chamomilla didn't help.

I thought of it because it has helped before with teething. And in a way the teething is still going on, because the teeth are not fully there.
I guess I have to change my way of thinking.

About last night: it was a bad as the previous ones. The pacifier was also too important.

I keep wondering do you need any other kind of information about him. Please ask me relevant questions.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

Again a bad night... Now I am getting exhausted. I know it because I cannot sleep anymore...

I keep thinking about the need of the pacifier. It is not good that he sleeps all 10-11 hours with a pacifier. The teeth will grow wrong.

During daytime he doens't need it that much, not anymore. He has much more courage than three months ago. Even the lady in the playgroup said, that the boy has grown a lot since he started the group in the beginning of December.

I really hope and pray we'll find a solution to this. I have been thinking of keeping a "sleeping school" for him. But I don't believe that will change a lot (because he cannot find the pacifier alone at night, althought there is 7 of them in the bed, and because when he sleeps restless and cries shortly because of that, he will anyway wake me up whether I react to it or not). Besides we live in an apartment. I can't let him cry during the night.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

I hope you'll find time to go through the whole case again.

Yes, the pacifier is "the bad thing". I have been getting rid of it slowly .
I don't give it during daytime, unless he is very tired. At home the pacifiers are in bed, he can go there, but he is not allowed to use it when he is playing. I don't give it in a car or in the pushchair. etc.
But he does keep asking for it... all the time.

By the way, when the lady in the playgroup said he has grown a lot - she ment he has become " a big boy", grown mentally. (His is not much taller or heavier).

I keep wondering why he has these sleeping problems? First two months of his life he slept peacefully and long, until 5-6 am. He started waking up at the age of 2 months.
How does homeopathy explain this?
(he has never eaten well, not even at the beginning).

Maria

Hi Magicure,

Just keeping you updated: two last nights have been the same. Well, last he woke up "only" three times, but crying as before.

And he still doesn't eat well.

Maria

Hi Magicure,

Thank you!

1. Skin is getting worse. There are several red spots both sides of the knees.
I noticed yesterday that the wrists are dry, like sandpaper. Not red yet.
Both are little bit itching, not badly though.

These two have originally been the weak spots on him. Next I'll be waiting excema all over legs and stomach...

2. He still kicks the cover off at nights. But I think he is not that hot anymore on his soles. Warm, but not hot.

Sometimes he sleeps t-shirt and shorts on, after good night sleep I take him by me in the morning, his skin is totally cold. That is new.

It is quite cold outside (about zero in celcius degrees). He complains easily that his fingers are cold. Also his feet are cold, even if he has winter shoes on.

3. I haven't seen him sweating for a long time. (well, last week in a tent in a fair it was really hot. His head was quite red after that, no smell).

4. He has been a bad eater all his life. I wouldn't say he eats less than before in his life.

Actually in the beginning of February he was eating better than ever. He also ate quite well in January. (About a week ago it changed.)
That made me worried: finally he was eating well for longer period of time, and he still isn't growing (only 200 grams in two months)!
Before I always thought he doesn't grow because he doesn't eat... That wasn't the ultimate reason after all.

5. In January he was able to live without the pacifier quite well. Maybe 2 weeks ago he went backwards.

In past I don't remember him crying that much while sleeping by me. Now he even start crying "mama" when he sleeps by me, early it was enought that I was present.
I don't know if I interpret this correctly, but I feel now he cries while sleeping. Before he was more awake and aware at nights.
I also think that before he kept waking because of slight noises. Now he keeps waking even if it is totally silent. This is just intuition.

The skin was quite bad in autumn. It clearly got better after starting Sulphur. It went backwards few weeks ago.

Emotionally he has changed a lot. Everyday he suprises me how big a boy he is nowadays. In November I thought that the others are more developped than he is, now I think he is in his own agelevel.

Tonight I'll start Sulphur again. And I'll keep posting :-)

Maria

Hi Magicure,

Maybe you have seen I have written another thread. The boy has been sick today, starting at 7 am. He was vomiting, fever 38,5, just sitting on the lap. He got better later during the day.

I gave sulphur yesterday. He was awake and moving around just after midnight, but after that he slept quite well until morning.

Today I forgot to give the second doze. Which is more important:
- I give three dozes alltogether? It doesn't matter if I skipped one day.
- I give three dozes in a row? That means, that I gave yesterday, I didn't give today. But now I start from the beginning and I'll give Sulphur during next three days.

By the way, the boy's name is Julius.

Maria