10 month old not sleeping through the night _{Page 12 of 22}

Yes it's something new, just showed up yesterday.

The Stramonium has arrived! The Carcinosinum (it's labelled as Carcinosin) and Cina came today, as well. Excited to give them a try! What dosages should I make them up as? If I can get my husband to take his dose as well, how should I make them up?

How many teaspoons?

Thank you!

I figured it was probably 2 tsp.
I actually got too excited and gave him the one drop to the tongue prior to reading your directions. I hit the bottle 3 times. I really wanted to give him some so I gave it before the pills were even quite done dissolving. I know I did it all wrong, I'm sorry. But he needed to go to bed and I really wanted to give him SOMEthing vs. waiting until the next day.

I since have re-made the bottle up fresh with new pills since I probably messed it up. (Haven't given anything else yet though.)

The first night right after I gave him that dose, he slept better for about the first 3 or 4 hours. Then restless and waking frequently after that. He seemed happier during the days for a couple of days.
Nighttimes since that first few hours have been back to usual wakings.
Tuesday night he had one of those things where he wakes up crying and does not want consoled. He started out crying with his eyes closed, not screaming but just sort of full crying, with a few tears but not many. He let me hold him but didn't want nursed or comforted or touched or patted. Then he opened his eyes and got more angry, seeming frustrated that I couldn't help him feel better. He didn't want to be held so I laid him down. Finally after a couple more minutes he was ready to nurse and went back to sleep right away.

One definite thing I noticed that has changed since the dose, is that he is now willing to be held by strangers or people he doesn't know well. Before, he would cry and want to go back to me right away. Now he seems content to be held by them if he can see me. He sort of has the look on his face like, 'This is ok, but if they do anything weird I'm going to want you back.' But a definite change there.
He still does not want me to leave the room and will cry if I go behind a closed door. I have to take him with me wherever I go in the house (or let him follow me). That seems a little worse than it was, the last day or two. But his daytime mood seems a bit worse the last day or two as well anyway, a bit more like prior to the dose where everything was a big problem. Not quite as bad as it was, but getting there.

The redness on the nipple went away with some of the Healing Cream I have---it has tea tree oil, myrrh, calendula, comfrey, etc in it.

OK. Let me give him his dose, get him to bed, then get back to you on the meds.

OK here goes. When I conceived, I was on Wellbutrin (Bupropion). Do you need dosages or just the name of the medication?
In the middle of the pregnancy, my doctor added Prozac (Fluoxetine). I also started taking Atenolol for a racing heartbeat, and Ranitidine for heartburn. I took that one daily until a little bit after birth.
During the pregnancy I took extra strength Tylenol (Acetaminophen).
At birth, it was just the Wellbutrin and Atenolol, and that continued for a month or two afterward, at which time we added Paxil (Paroxetine).
The Atenolol I took less and less from birth on forward. I don't take it any longer. After birth I took Ibuprofen, and then as needed thereafter for headaches or whatnot. Several months after birth I started taking Immitrex (Sumatriptan).

I am just now recalling that there was a short period about halfway through the pregnancy, maybe 5 months along. I was with my husband while he was 'over the road' trucking, with our older son as well, in a sleeper truck. While we were in another state, I got what felt like a tooth abscess. We stopped in some local urgent care and I got a prescription for Vicodin (Acetaminophen with hydrocodone), and a antibiotic which I can't remember the name of. I think it may have started with a C. Looking at a list of drugs which are said to be safe during pregnancy, Clindamycin seems to be the one that sounds most right. But I could be wrong. I took the antibiotic for about a week. The Vicodin for a day or two. I don't believe I had any other antibiotics during pregnancy, and to my knowledge I didn't receive any medications during labor. I had an IV port but I don't think they needed to use it. I can't think of any other meds that I used. Sheesh, seems like a lot now!

I remembered a couple more. I took Zoloft (Sertraline)for a couple of months early on in Kody's life, trying to see if it was the Wellbutrin that was keeping Kody from sleeping at night. Well it didn't make any difference in him and it was worse for me so I went back on the Wellbutrin.
I also forgot I was on hormonal birth control for most of his little life. It was the progesterone-only pill, Micronor (Norethindrone).

Also, I forgot to list the ones he had. So there was Zantac (Ranitidine), Prilosec (Omeprazole), Prevacid (Lansoprazole), Nexium (Esomeprazole). He had Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen, Benadryl. Antibiotics for ear infections: Amoxicillin and Azithromycin. I used Oragel for teething.
I did homeopathics--Calms for Kids, Colic Calm, Chamillia, Nat Phos 6X, Mag Phos 6X, and chamomile tea, about a teaspoon a day. During the surgery he had on his testicles, he had Morphine, and some sort of antibiotic. Post-surgically he had more antibiotics and Vicoden.
[message edited by alaskamom on Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:31:55 BST]

Yes, I kind of am gathering that it's pretty complex. I was totally on the Western medicine mindset until only recently, so I had no idea how bad all these medicines could be. Of course the Western docs have no qualms throwing all kinds of drugs at you when you come in complaining that your baby won't sleep and is having trouble feeding, fussy, etc.

I can't say as I really see any kind of improvement on the Stramonium. He's gradually been backsliding a bit with the sleeping, needing several tries to get him to go to sleep, even now to where I have to hold him and rock him while nursing to get him to fall asleep many times. Also the last two nights he's been waking at 4am, sort of seems quiet at that time like he's awake but sleepy, or just calm maybe. He lays awake for quite awhile, stares at the ceiling for long stretches, talks to me a little or moves around, then goes back to sleep after about an hour and then sleeps for two more hours before getting up. Yesterday he was very grumpy, today much better, happier during the day. Naptimes go well once I get him down, he sleeps two hours uninterrupted pretty regularly now. Appetite is some better, however he only wants to eat starches---potatoes, bread, bananas. A little juice. Occasionally a raw apple slice or cooked carrots, but he has a hard time chewing anything else down. He chews and chews but then ends up spitting it out after about 15 minutes...this would be things like ground beef, sausage, chicken. He gets some of the meats down but a large portion end up being something he can't seem to swallow. Still nursing a lot.
He also has frequent episodes where he does a short (dry) cough and then a hard swallow, sounding like he is swallowing a few little air bubbles, then repeats that several times, like he has stomach acids coming up or something. I notice it around eating times but also just random times throughout the day. It doesn't seem like he does it playfully, he stops what he's doing and seems to be concentrating on it, then goes back to what he's doing after it's over. Coughs and sputters often with drinking. Just seems overall to have a hard time with eating and seems delayed on what he ought to be able to handle at his age (14 months). Seems like by now he ought to be just chowing down on all sorts of things. His big brother sure was a good eater, anyway. I have no desire to take him to the allopathic doc of course, because what are they going to do...just tell me to try offering him new things of course and that he 'looks healthy'.
I have also noticed a bit of bluish under his eyes and that they seem to look a bit puffy, especially after waking, like he just isn't rested or something.

OK, will do.

About 24 hours since first dose. Only noticeable difference is that his bowels have been much more active. 3 BMs yesterday vs normally just once a day or once every couple of days. Sleep unchanged so far.

Nothing much to report. A little teary today, but he seems tired too. No improvement on sleep. Not better or worse.

Sounds good.

I'm thinking watching him tonight that it really seems like his reflux is acting up again. I know that homeopathy looks at the whole vs one disease process. But here is what I see that makes me think reflux.

The night of his first dose of Stramonium, he had a sudden increase in his appetite and ate really well for dinner. But afterwards, he had lots of the cough and swallow stuff going on, like he was having acid coming up. And got the hiccups too.

Batting at his ears frequently. I have read that frequent ear infections are a common problem for reflux babies.

When he woke up tonight crying an hour after going to sleep, he was wiping/swiping at his nose and mouth. If he had been using his nails instead of the pads of his fingers he would have been scratching at it. His face seemed like he felt disgust or discomfort. I've seen him do that many times before, but this time it made the connection in my mind with reflux. I recall on the forum I was on for reflux babies, that other moms had babies that would scratch their faces and make them bleed when they were crying/screaming from reflux.

The cough/swallow thing. He does that several times a day every day.

The increase in day-to-day fussiness, and the more frequent night wakings (he seemed like he is worse now after getting slightly better for a bit).

Whenever he eats, he eats very small portions each time. It is very rare that he will take bite after bite of something, even if he seems to enjoy it he will sign 'all done' pretty quickly after getting started. He eats small but frequently and nurses often.

He seems to have a love-hate relationship with food. Sometimes he will just refuse it altogether, other times he eats sparingly, then I will think, Oh great, he is eating so well! Only to have it change the next day back to eating sparingly.

He gags easily with eating and has a hard time swallowing things that babies several months younger than him have no problem with. I had a friend over today that has a baby girl who is a month and a few weeks younger than he is, and she was eating big bites of meat when normally he sometimes can't seem to swallow even smaller pieces than that.
For example ground beef, sausage, chicken, and meat in general. He will eat it, and it just goes round and round his mouth for quite awhile until he just can't figure out what to do with it and spits it out.

He seems to sputter and cough easily when drinking. Like he sometimes has a hard time with it at times.

Seems that nursing is the only sure thing for him. Food is just kind of iffy. He likes it and wants it, but it seems like he has trouble with it and gets discouraged and doesn't want it.

Anyway I wonder if he wakes all night because of acid in his throat, and the nursing washes it down. I thought that when he was littler, too, but then for several months I thought it didn't seem to be reflux, but now I just am feeling that it may be from that. Not all babies outgrow it after a year. Even Ethan seems to get heartburn now and then--and apparently it runs in families.

He had a really awful night's sleep last night, but this morning I can feel that a new molar erupted. So that explains that.

I think I'm going to take a break from homepathy for Kody for now. Just gave him Benadryl the last two nights and it's been nice getting some sleep, and being able to be more relaxed when going to bed, because I know he won't be so wakeful, at least for 6 or 8 hours.

All right. I appreciate all your help. I'll get back in touch with you on Kody whenever I decide to try again. I'll still be posting on me and Ethan I'm sure, and hubby possibly.

OK, so I didn't last very long on my own, hah. Kody is back into one of his 'fever of unknown origin' deals, and it's the same ol' same ol'--103.4, no outward signs of infection. I think I'm game to try the Cina if that was going to be your next step.