Trying very hard to post some difficulties my 3 yr old son has been having recently but I can't seem to get it to load onto this site . It is quite long perhaps this is the problem, I prepared it as a Word document - could this be the problem?

I originally tried to prepare the case on the "post new topic" page but it would not load from there either and I lost it all trying to post it so I rewrote is on Word to make sure I did not loee it again.

I have tried to break it into sections and post them sepatatly but that would not post either.

Anyone have any advice on posting it.

Help

Janyce

Copy and paste, it shall work.
If not, do this go to start, then seek files/folders, type in*.tmp hit seek.then use the mouse to mark the first one it finds and use alt arrow down mark all, then hit delete.(or use the mark all function in the tools), after this run defrag , restart run defrag, do that several time. if having norton sys works use speeddisk, then syscheck. repeat.If that dont fix it, you need to reinstall windows, the browser and word. also when installing win find the clipboard and install it. ( is under win install if you lack it, is under a sub in the accesories.)

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Thanks GM , will do this.

Jon tells me the size of the post may be the problem so I will try to post it in sections.

I have had a couple of other problems recently so I think I need to reinstall Windows. I am not the most techologically minded person I know , watch this space.

Janyce

you will still have to do what i told you, it may not be fixed by reinstalling only.

My little chocoholic is not going to be pleased. How long must he avoid these things?

I am not sure how much control I have over what he eats and smells at his daycare or when he is at his fathers .

We will try to comply with this.

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[This message has been edited by janyce (edited 26 June 2000).]

40 to 60 days dependig on the bettering, if better..then 60 days..and if not completly well in that time we have to look at it again, just keep us updated, take note of all symptomes.
New ones, and old reocurring ones.
A flu or cold migth be expected, or a earinflamation,if leave it alone.

My 3 year old son has had very disturbed sleep the last 2-3 weeks.

It has been very humid recently which seems to have made things worse (the sleeping situation has improved since the weather changed). The light evenings mean he says "its not dark yet" when I try to put him to bed (a blanket over his window has made it easier). He has had a very slight snotty nose with a small amount of green/yellow crusty mucus over the last week or so.

He has been waking anywhere between 4 to 6.30am and has been distressed - shouting "where are you mummy", sometimes saying he is frightened, sometimes just crying. When he has woken during the night he has come in to my bed with me and gone back to sleep.

Sometimes when I have tried to put him to bed he has he has said "I don't like my room", he has always seemed happy in there. About 5 months ago he started asking me to leave his light on when I put him to bed. He has always gone to bed without any problems (but always trying for another story), and has slept through the night from about 5 months old.

He has been dry at night since Easter, but has wet the bed virtually every night for the last 2 weeks, sometimes twice, but has stayed dry during the day.

He has fair skin, blue eyes and blond hair, and a very attractive sprinkling of small, pale freckles over the bridge of his nose . He is a confident, affectionate child with a happy personality , sometimes he can be a little shy. His verbal skills are very well developed and he is well ahead of his age group in this area .

He has a pale birthmark on his left wrist - present since birth. It is quite large on his small arm but is the only one he has. He is not overweight, but has a "stocky" build, he is of average height for his age. He likes to watch videos, read (and will read in bed ), play with his toys and likes his cars and trains best, he likes music, singing and nursery rhymes, he loves to draw, paint, run and climb .

Elliot is tired at the moment, as he has not been having as much sleep as he needs. I can see it coming out in his behaviour - he is very "whiney", sucks his thumb a lot during the day and his concentration / attention span is not so good.

I am tired too as I have had broken sleep and everything seems to be taking longer to do. I am getting grumpy and bad tempered too and we seem to be having lots of confrontation as my patience has left me .

I have been putting him to bed at the usual time - by 8pm at the latest, but we usually have some bedtime stories. A week ago he did not go to sleep until 5 hours later than usual , but I have got that down to about an hour later than usual over the last few days. He has been telling me he does not want me to leave "I want you to stay here" when I have tried to leave. I have been leaving him with his music tapes playing and he has come to get me to turn them over when they have stopped.

end of part 1

Part 2, and I just discovered you can only use 8 smilies per post

Elliot is our second child, our first child, also a boy) was stillborn at 38 weeks, we had no explanation for his unexpected death after a healthy pregnancy. I conceived Elliot 3 months after delivering our first baby and he arrived at 36 weeks, weighing 8 lb and 9 oz. I had developed gestational diabetes but did not use insulin (late onset diabetes runs in my family), I do not have diabetes now.

Elliot had an assisted delivery - first ventouse and then forceps. He was badly presented. I was quite stressed during my second pregnancy.

He was breastfed until he was about 15-16 months old, he weaned himself. He started on solid food at about 15 weeks. He was fed a vegetarian diet until he was about 1 year old. He loves garlic, cheese, pasta, olives, fruit especially oranges, strawberries, grapes and lemons. He loves to lick lemons - "I like it sour" he said to me last week. I liked to suck lemons as a child, so does my dad.

He got his first tooth at 6 months and had all of them by 2 years. He experienced a little discomfort, which often simply needed a cuddle to sort out, he also responded very well to chamomilla teething granules and was also occasionally given one of the local anaesthetic gels. He likes to suck his thumb, and will suck either but seems to prefer his right. Occasionally his breath will smell foul at night or in the morning (a sour kind of smell).

He has had a few colds and tummy bugs but generally healthy. His snotty colds have usually responded to Pulsatilla. He had "hand, foot and mouth" disease when he was 1 yr old with pin-head blisters on his hands and feet and a sore mouth.

He has been given antibiotics several times - about 18 months ago developed thrush in his genital area and between his thumb and forefinger which has recurred several times on both hands. This has been treated with allopathic fungal creams, but has not recurred since I gave him a homeopathic Candida remedy early this year. He had an ear infection last year that responded to Chamomilla. I noticed a large raised wart/ verruca on the ball of his foot a couple of weeks ago.

He had an operation to repair a hydocele at 18 months. He also had an un-descended testicle, but this resolved after our regular homeopath prescribed a remedy - sorry I can't remember what that was.

He had oral vitamin k after his birth and has had all the routine vaccinations in the UK . This decision is not mine alone. (E's father does not believe in homeopathy).

He was admitted to a special care baby unit at just over 2 days old. He had severe jaundice as a result of the bruising from the ventouse. He was given antibiotics when he was in the special care unit for a minor infection around his umbilicus.

He was a sleepy baby at first - put down to the jaundice and being a month early. They also gave him soy formula in the intensive care unit (at 2 days old) as my milk had not come in (dairy intolerance in his fathers family). He was slow to nurse and I expressed which was mostly given by a naso-gastric tube. He did not regain his birth-weight until he was 5 weeks old.

end of part 2

Janyce

part 3

I have been aware of Elliot having dreams since he was a few months old. Generally I am able to soothe him by stroking his back or by holding him. He would settle and go back to his bed, if he would not settle he would come into bed with me. As he got older I would ask him what he wanted to do, sometimes he would want to stay in his own room, sometimes come in with me.

He has slept in his own room since he was about 5 months. He is very restless when he is asleep, I do not think he has sleep walked. He fell out of his bed a couple of times when he moved from his cot/crib to a bed. He usually sleeps on his tummy.

Last October / November his dreams became scarier. He had a night terror, lasting about 30 minutes. He seemed to have a temper tantrum in his sleep - he was screaming "no" and arching his back. I held him until it finished and he did not seem to be aware of my presence at all.

He did not remember it afterwards, but I was quite frightened as there seemed to be nothing I could do. I discussed this with my health visitor (community nurse usually specialising in child development) who said it was anight terror as opposed to a nightmare. She was supportive and suggested a few things we could do to manage them if they became regular, but he has only 1 night terror. I also tracked down an internet site about night terrors - if anyone is interested I will post the address.

A couple of weeks after the night terror he had a really scary nightmare and insisted the friend who was staying with us go outside to make sure there were no monsters on the roof. He was so scared after that dream he would not go back to sleep. He came in with me and got very upset when I started to fall asleep, although he did eventually go back to sleep. The next few nights he did not want to go to bed.

He has had a few scary dreams since, but nothing quite as disturbing as that one. He is not always able to tell me what the dream was about, but sometimes I think it is about loosing me "where are you mummy". These dreams started after we got separated when we were out shopping a few months ago.

I find I can predict when he will have dreams which distress him and wake him up - he usually has a cold or a snotty nose, but he does dream at other times. The night terror and very scary dream were associated with a stuffy nose, and most of his more disturbing dreams have been at times like this.

Vivid dreams and sleepwalking run in his fathers family, it is very common in that side of the family. His fathers friends and family tell many amusing stories about his fathers sleepwalking, I find it more worrying as I know he (my son's father) has left the house in his sleep. I don't think I have ever sleepwalked but I am told I have talked in my sleep at times, I don't often remember my dreams.

I have discussed Elliot's dreams with his father and that side of the family, they say "we just ignore them". I don't find this very helpful. Elliot's dad only took the night terror seriously when he discussed it with a colleague whose son has had them regularly. His father and I do not live together and never have done, so he has never been around when E has had the really bad nightmares.

When I discussed the night terror with his paternal grandmother, she said she was not aware of any of her children or the other grandchildren having had a night terror.

end of part 3

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