Hi. I am the mother of boy girl twins. The last two years have been relatively difficult thanks to my son!
He developed eczema at about 8 wks, which cleared up when I stopped eating dairy, as he was fully breast fed. We have since had him allergy tested and found he is allergic to peanuts, house dust, dairy and mild whaet and oats. He had an asthma attack at about 18mths ans has now had about four attacks which have been managed with ventolin.
I work in my own business, and he has a mixture of care including a nanny, creche and some time with my mother. He is in care between 9 and 4, 5 days a week.
He is progressing very well with his milestones and appears to be a fairly intelligent child, although not exceptional.

From about six months we have experienced extremely erratic behaviour. He is always stubborn and headstrong, however sometimes he is almost unmanageable. Those days end up in one time out session followed by another as he seems incapable of controlling his behaviour. Smacking has very little effect. He throws thing and screams in rage. At about 9 months he was hitting his head on the floor.
He has also been a very poor sleeper. We found that cranial massage helped quite a lot however the turning point for us seemed to be when we went to a homeopath who gave us medorrhinn. I am finding that I need to give him a dose of this about once a month and he improves markedly.

I have not been back to the homeopath for a while and am going to, however I was just wondering why this works and what his problem actually is. When he is being good he is delightful and very affectionate. He has people in fits of laughter with his antics. He by no means bad all the time, and even before I came across medorrhinn we had been through weeks where he was delightful, and then he would change again.

I have questioned all sorts of thing, ie teething, him being in care (although his father also only works about 30hrs per week, so he has a lot of input from him, as well), our parenting methods,chemicals due to allergies, hunger (as he appears to have a weak digetive system)

He is not chronic and most people looking in from the out side would probably think it is lack of discipline and routine. My parents did for quite a while, but my mother is now starting to see more of the behaviour that he tend to reserve for his parents! I feel that I am farly strict. We have been on parenting courses etc.

Finally he is normally well behaved for other care givers whilst still being noted for his exceptionally head strong nature. He definitely reserves the worst for his parents.

Ideas please. I just wonder what is around the corner for us, and whether medorrhinn will be needed indefinitely.

Tania