Stressed as.. tried everything I can think of... exhausted

NickyBat

Sorry to hear you had another bad night, just to clarify is he screaming every few minutes all day and night?
if so i think i would consider taking him to your local oohs at the hospital.

SingleMumOf2_3

Nicky.. he has trouble falling asleep on his own. But once asleep he is waking every 5 to 15 minutes. then the crying starts again until he is helped back to sleep. though sometimes he can only stay asleep if we are on the move. he is taking his bottles normally. though 3 hourly. he wont go any longer.

I thought it might be because he used to be on lactulose to help him poo. But he has had an explosion of a poo today. A proper teething poo. Yet has been just the same afterwards. He didnt seem any more comfortable or in pain. I have the hv ringing me back next week.. to come and do a visit. But what I am to do in the meantime I have no idea.

NickyBat

I don't know, i wish i lived near you, i would gladly take him for a few hours for you ( i can't have anymore children so would love to help out), im just wondering if he is in pain?

shelley_crow

mirrorimage0 wrote: »

oh didnt realise this when we used to give it ours it was ok but that was 11 yrs ago

I bought and used it with my first before, think it only changed in summer last year x

SingleMumOf2_3

The sachets he is on atm are the Nelsons ones.. called teetha. He now gags and is sick though if I give them to him I attempted bedtime routine, bath and bed. Couldnt offer a bottle as he had had one about half an hour before his bath.
Left him in the cot with the mobile on while I read bedtime story to my toddler. He screamed and cried hysterically all the way through it. Has been so loud I have had to bring him downstairs and put him in his swing.
He seems happy in his swing. But I know if I turn it off he will go back to screaming. Maybe I should get into a routine of bathtime .. and then putting him in the swing with his pjs on and in his sleeping bag. So that it is sort of like bedtime? If only I could stop him waking up so often!

He also now has a cold aswell. Has been gagging lots from the mucus and keeps coughing. His poor nose has had to be kept clear with saline drops, but as soon as I have cleaned one lot of snot the next lot comes along.

shelley_crow

I used New Era Teething Tablets, they dissolve instantly on putting them in the baby's mouth (as tested on me beofre i gave them to ds), they work instantly too.

Cold wise, raise one end of his cot and put karvol on his bedding/clothes. I use a karvol plug in diffuser with my older son, not sure if it's suitbale for use with babies as i haven't got the box, might be worth looking into though. x

danielle1977

Before the cold- did your baby have a temperature, be sick alot? Anything else thast isn't 'normal'?

SingleMumOf2_3

he hasnt got a temp now really. but i have had problems with him since he was 2 weeks old.
he has never been a sicky baby but this week he has been sick about ten times.. but only a little bit.
he has always been very unsettled but used to sleep 3 hourly at least at night.

danielle1977

before you switched to formula how often was he breastfed?

Also before how well did he sleep at night? oops just read this 3 hours.

whats his weight gain like?

Sorry for all the qu's but you sound like me a few years ago.

Js_Other_Half

I know someone else mentioned something similar earlier, but we took DS to a cranial osteopath when he was tiny, and again a few months ago. The difference in his feeding after one session as a baby was amazing. Might be worth considering?
I'd stuck the leaflet about the clinic onto a bookshelf, and it blew off onto the floor when my (briefly allocated and good) HV was visiting. She picked it up and looked at it, I waited for the inevitable comments of it being a waste of time/money etc. She really surprised me by knowing of the practitioner, and described a family she knew who were on the waiting list of an MRI scan to ascertain if the child's constant crying for the previous year was due to problems with the child's brain. In the meantime the family visited this practitioner, and within 2/3 sessions was transformed.

It may have been a coincidence etc, but HV didn't seem to think so.