10 month old not sleeping through the night _{Page 7 of 22}

ok. thanks!

So last night he was very restless, however, today I noticed a new tooth has emerged. There's also another one possibly looking to make an appearance soon. So I'm sure that has been interfering with his sleep.

Pulling at his ears today, and acting a bit fussier during the day. Fighting sleep still when it comes time to go to bed, even though he is acting tired.

As it stands right now, I don't really feel there has been an improvement overall.

I will work on typing out his symptoms & behavior and post it for you.

Can I ask--is it even worth continuing to try to correct this? Is this even something homeopathy can help?
Should I just get tough with him and let him 'cry it out'? Stop nursing him at night?
Is he this way because of me? Do I just need to wait until I am better to expect him to change? Is it just genetic? Do I just need to suck it up and deal with it? Sometimes I feel I am expecting too much and just need to go with the flow. He is, after all, pretty happy most of the time during the day. Sometimes I wonder if it's just me over-analyzing it.

That's an interesting thought. I do still take Wellbutrin as well, so he gets a small amount of it with breastfeeding. It's about a third of the dosage (or less) of what I took while pregnant.

Good to know. I will go get those remedies tonight after the kids go to bed. I believe I may have the Nux Vomica on hand already, I will check.

Do I need to think about weaning off the Wellbutrin to avoid continuing to produce negative effects in him? I believe the Wellbutrin is not super critical to my mental well being, and I could always try coming off it.

I wish I had known in pregnancy what I do now! I would have used homeopathics all along instead of the antidepressants. But I am very grateful for your help in this---you have made a big difference in our lives.

Well, my husband, I'm sorry to say, changed his mind on trying the remedy. He was in a bind, needing to leave before the remedy would have arrived by mail, and going to be gone for a long stretch, so he ended up going his usual route of getting a cortico-steroid shot that covers him for the whole season. I hate to even mention it, because you put the time and energy into analyzing his complicated case.

Ethan is doing fairly well, he is better than he was when I first posted, but I wonder if he could be better still. With what you mentioned about Kody, how it could go poorly for him if we didn't correct it early on, I wonder if there's more with Ethan that I should attend to. I took Zoloft for the 2nd and 3rd trimesters in pregnancy with him, and while breastfeeding, up until I weaned him at 8 months. His infancy was very similar to what Kody is like now, waking many times a night. It was 8-10 times most nights for the first year, then got a bit less, then persisted until about a year ago (just before he turned 4). He's still kind of emotionally...fragile, I guess. What do you think?

Also thanks for the encouragement to keep pursuing the cure for Kody, I just felt for awhile that maybe I was just asking for the impossible with him. I appreciate that you are wanting to keep going.

I think I may try to slowly dial down the Wellbutrin and see if I can at least shave a bit off the pill or get it down to half or something.

By the way, this is rather inconsequential, but thought I'd mention it because it seemed strange to me.
On Kody, the baby, every now and then I notice he has what looks like a clogged pore somewhere--right now there's one on his face---but what's strange is that it's like it's two pores smack next to each other, almost like a teeny tiny set of bite marks? Or like a double star...two stars smack next to each other that almost look like one. They're very tiny, and it's probably nothing, but seemed strange to see it recur other places on his body. He had one on his thigh last.
Also when he was born he had a clogged sebaceous gland (I think), that looked like a small bite mark on his forearm. It was two little spots close to each other that time too. But larger with those. He still has two red marks--three actually, now--in that spot, not sure if they ever really went away.
Like I said, not really a big deal, but just curious to me.

OK so I gave him his dose of Borax today, this afternoon.
When it came time to bedtime today, oh my! He fought it tooth and nail. Wonder if it's an aggravation. He was crying hard, but I didn't want to let him get up and just go play, it was bedtime so I held onto him while he screamed and cried. Finally got him to nurse and he went to sleep. Phew!

Definitely hope so.

This afternoon I gave him his third dose of the Borax. So far his sleep has not improved. I can feel in his gums that he's probably getting his 1 year molars in, though they haven't broken the surface. He's been waking up more often, restless, and this morning woke up at 4 am which is early for him, despite a normal bedtime of 6pm last night. Usually he wakes about 5:30am. He woke up happy, just ready to get up and play, and is resisting getting put back to bed, even though he's yawning.
Yesterday he was kind of cranky during the day.
I'd say overall not any improvement to speak of, a bit worse actually but that could be the teeth too.

Very restless night last night, with frequent wakenings, more so from around 9pm-10pm and from 4am on toward morning.

During the day (this is not new, but I'm noticing it more), he does this thing where he will do a single, dry cough followed by swallowing hard.

Forgot to mention that I do already have the Nux on hand, so I can proceed with that if that is your next thing to do.

Any thoughts?

OK, thanks for that!
Right now I only have Sepia 12c and 6c on hand. Could I use one of those?