Advice please for stuttering child

Hi,

I’d be very grateful for any homeopathy suggestions to help my son please.

He is 8.5 years and has a slight stammer. It seems to happen on the first word of certain sentences, and with words like well, how, where, there. The rest of the sentences are fine, it just seems to happen mostly at the beginning. It seems like he can’t actually say the word and elongates it, then the rest of the sentence flows fine.
He did have a slight stammer when he was about 5 (it got worse when we thinking about moving out of the area, so we decided not to move) but then it resolved, but has become a bit more noticeable now, but with no reason that we can see – he is not worried about anything, no traumas or problems that could account for it. Seems to have started again as the weather has got colder.

Sometimes he wants to speak quickly – almost as if his brain is moving faster than his mouth, but he seems to get stuck on the first word sometimes – not every sentence and happens more when he is tired.

He was born by c-section 2 weeks early due to placenta praevia, and has been quite slow to do things (crawled at 11 months, walked at 18 months, quite late to talk and did have problems with pronouncing the letter until age 4 or 5.). In the middle of the class at school. Has a tendency not to listen – especially if he is doing something else and also has a tendency to forget what he’s just been told.
He is happy at school and has a lot of friends. Likes to be a problem-solver and help his friends problems with helpful solutions.
He likes music and singing, plays violin but doesn’t enjoy reading.
He is fair haired and very slim. Athletic – enjoys running and doesn’t get tired easily. Would be happy to stay up late every night if allowed. Always wakes early in happy mood. Happy child unless things don’t go his way then he can get irritable and easily angered, quick to lose temper with himself and others but temper problems easily resolved and doesn’t harbour grudges or sulks.

Has had molluscum contagiosum twice in last 4 years that Thuja has quickly cleared. Also had a verruca over summer but now resolved.
He has quite a lot of colds – mucus in nose – but no fever/feeling ill, and is otherwise heathy.
Eats well – enjoys all sorts of food – especially cheese, which he has started to eat a lot of recently.

Any advice on a good homeopathic remedy would be very welcome please. Thanks!

PS - he also finds it hard to get to sleep, is scared of the dark and needs to sleep with a light on. He usually wakes early - about 6am. Feels anxious at bedtime and about going to sleep.
[message edited by Paloms on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:24:37 BST]