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Taking DS (nearly 6m) to the Chiropractor tomorrow, if that doesn't help then i'm at a bit of a loss

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SupersonicDave · 02/02/2011 09:32

DS is coming up to 6m, he is always crying/grizzling, wanting to suck almost constantly on the boob even when not feeding. He is never very content, and apart from the 3 nights he has slept through in the 6m, mostly he is up 3-4 times a night and such a light sleeper that if DH or i even turn over he wakes up.

I could cope with the night wakings if he was an easier baby to deal with iyswim? But he is so bloody miserable. Yes he is teething atm, but it is just adding to it.

I have booked us both into the Chiro tomorrow. I am trying not to pin all my hopes on her, but if it doesn't help i don't know what else to try.

I am literally at the end of my tether now and starting to resent DS Sad i love him to bits, but struggle to want to be around him now.

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MollysChambers · 02/02/2011 09:37

Oh dear that sounds grim.

Have heard that the chiropractor can help (though can't for the life of me remember how)

What else have you tried? Is it a digestion issue - gaviscon? Is he on solids yet?

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SupersonicDave · 02/02/2011 12:53

Hi Molly, thank you for replying Smile

I don't think it is a digestion issue, as his 'symptoms' don't fit. He seemed to have growth spurts a lot which always lasted at least 10days at a time, followed by 2-5days of lots of sleeping, then back to feeding all hours again. He is on solids now.

In the last week he has had 2 'episodes' of uncontrollable screaming/crying, one when i strapped him ito his carseat and the other when i got him out of his high chair. The second one i actually phoned my mum and then the Dr's as i was worried he was hurt. He also has a tendency to hold his head to one side.

I know that if we were both getting more sleep there would be less stress. DH and i are thinking of moving downstairs for a bit in the hope it will help DS sleep sounder.

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Albrecht · 02/02/2011 12:58

No advice I'm afraid, just to say you are not alone. ds is 7 months, has never slept through but used to go 4 or 5 hours. Now wakes every half hour... I'm going loopy frankly.

We just try and go with the flow as think its teeth and deelopmental. Can't last forever?

heksie · 02/02/2011 13:03

Hi SupersonicDave
sorry to hear you are not having a good time atm. Does DS sleep in your room, is that why he is waking up when you move at night? Sounds like you all need a bit of a rest. What about asking someone like family to come over for the night and help you get a good night's rest! I put my ds into another room at 3 months and found he didn't wake as much and we didn't either! And no I didn't use a monitor as that would have just kept me awake listening to it!

The neck issue - sounds like you are doing the right thing going to a chiro, they are great at sorting out neck, head and nerve issues and often these have other effects that can make a baby unhappy. If I were you I would start tackling one thing at a time. Don't worry it all sorts itself out in the end!

Good luck

MollysChambers · 02/02/2011 13:19

Let us know how chiropractor goes.

I really do feel for you. Fingers crossed you'll see a difference.

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SupersonicDave · 02/02/2011 13:19

Thank you.

Unfortunately we only have a 2bed house and DD is in one room and DH, DS and i are in the other. This is why we are thinking of moving downstairs onto the sofabed Confused just to see if that helps.

Seeing the Chiro was only something i thought of recently. I used to go a lot myself when i was working, and this woman is very good.

I feel better having a plan, but as i say, trying hard not to pin all my hopes on her in case it is nothing, just a behavioural thing.

DD was such a cheery little thing that this just seems so wrong. I find it hard to believe that a baby can be so unhappy for no reason iyswim?

DS is much happier when out at playgroups and things, but i thnk it is to do with the fact that he is being held constantly.

I really have no idea Confused

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chippy47 · 02/02/2011 13:25

Cranial Osteopath? Helped when DS1 9 @ 3months) was suffering 'colic' or roughly translated as screaming the house down for no apparent reason.

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SupersonicDave · 02/02/2011 15:39

No, she is a McTimony(sp?) chiropractor.

There was an article i read a few years ago (when i started seeing her) about an autistic boy being treated by a McT chiro who basically cured him. It turned out he was wrongly diagnosed with autism due to pain (not very good at explaining, will try to google it)

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 02/02/2011 15:42

If you search past message for my name, you'll see I posted a similar thread about my miserable baby at around the same stage. Lots of people suggested allergies passed on through my milk. I dismissed it. Started to wean, huge allergic reaction to milk. Since I cut it out of my diet, dd is a different baby - so happy and funny. Worth considering if the chiro doesn't work?

MadameSin · 02/02/2011 15:48

I used a McT Chiro for my son who has ADHD - would highly recommend it ... here www.mctimoneychiropractic.org/

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SupersonicDave · 02/02/2011 16:08

Blame - i will definitely look into it.

I couldn't find the article i'm afraid.

MadameSin - did you take your son after he was diagnosed?

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Casserole · 02/02/2011 16:58

My McT chiro literally changed my life - my baby was just as you describe and she sorted him out in one treatment. I was completely at the end of my tether. Was so sold on it that now I'm training to be one!

So I really, really hope she helps you tomorrow. Best of luck :)

Cats49 · 02/02/2011 22:34

I took my whingy moany crying, waking all the time at night baby to a cranial osteopath when he was 6 months old and he slept through for the first time that night and was a different baby. Even my DH couldn't believe it - he never thought it would work. 14 years later teenage years - back to whinging and moaning again. Maybe he needs another session!
Good luck - I remember what it was like as if it was yesterday. I used to spend hours driving round in the car as that was the only way he would keep quiet or go to sleep.
I took my daughter to the osteopath at 7 days old and she never had any major problems.

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SupersonicDave · 03/02/2011 08:58

Well, ironically we had a good night last night Hmm and as a consequence he is in a good mood this morning.

This is what he does though, constant unhappiness, bad sleep, unsettled etc, then a night or two that is ok and then he is cheery, then back to the misery Confused

If it was just his personality i would accept it, but i always feel it is something we are doing/not ddoing to meet his needs.

Maternal guilt is a wonderful thing Hmm

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narmada · 03/02/2011 09:20

Re the head holding on one side - that sounds like it could be torticollis - a physio might be able to advise?? But you would hope a health professionat might have pcked it up at a routine chuck if it was :)

narmada · 03/02/2011 09:21

routine check even Blush

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SupersonicDave · 03/02/2011 12:51

narmada - a nurse mentioned it at one of is jabs, which made me first aware that it might be abnormal.

So, we have been. DS had a wonky pelvis, several vertabrae out, and a couple of little bits in his neck. She also worked on his feet a bit too. She has said to give it a week, and if we are not completely happy still then she will give us the number of a baby specialist (in Oxford! we are in Cambridge) who is THE best for this sort of thing, one or 2 treatments there will sort anything.

DS has cried a fair bit since, not angry, not grizzles, not screaming, just kind of tired crying iyswim? But inbetween the crying he has been calm which is unheard of!

Fingers crossed he has a good nap and wakes up happy.

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 06/02/2011 09:29

Supersonic I hope this sorts it for you. Can I just repeat though that your post of 0858 on Thursday makes me think even more that this could be an allergy issue. It is so similar to what we experienced and now I realise that what I thought was random periods of relative calm followed once again by periods of misery for no reason were actually all diet related. Can I suggest you keep a food diary and look to see if there is any logic to when he is miserable linking to foods consumed.

(I look back now to a time when we went away with dd. For the first week we were in a place where it was hard to buy milk and she slept so beautifully and was so happy all week. The second week I returned to my normal diet and it all went wrong again - seem so very obvious now...)

Knackeredmother · 06/02/2011 17:34

Bump.
Wondering how things are now?
My ds identical, I booked the osteopath
At 5 months but we we hospitalised virtually constantly from then on I never made it. Thinking it may still be worth a go now at 14 months though.

Knackeredmother · 06/02/2011 18:13

Sorry for terrible grammar/spelling on my phone with poorly ds hanging off me

nightcat · 06/02/2011 18:16

OP, pleased for you, I have had a very good experience with osteopath on myself and on my ds for things that drs couldn't help (my ds has problems with wheat/gluten as well, and the combined effect of diet and treatment has been great).

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SupersonicDave · 09/02/2011 20:19

Hello Smile

DS has been really cheery for the majority of the time. Is full of snot (so is DD) but it is not making him miserable.

One strange thing i noticed is that after seeing the chiro on thurs, on friday DS suddenly 'got' chewing Confused could be coincidence.

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vmcd28 · 10/02/2011 23:29

That's amazing that there's been a marked difference! I'd never have thought to do this if I were in your position. I'm glad you've got a happier boy

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