Hi, i have written this on another message board as well. My son is three and was a 34 week preemie. He has problems having a conversation with people.
It is like he is stuck.He doesn't Quite fit add,adhd, or autism.He likes to be touched and isn't hyperactive.He has to be forced to speak and sometimes he refuses.Some days if bored he hums and walksaround in a foggy state for a few minutes.When asked he says I'm walking in circles.
He takes a long time a half an hour or so to warm up to new people. Sometimes he screams in fear from new situations.
i saw a homeopath and she helped him with some lung congestion that accompanied head banging and frustration. but then she ran out of answers.help.

I don't know if there is any relation to another case I knew of- the little boy could not speak well, and it turned out that the mother had been exposed to Cytomegalovirus when gardening. The boy had not crawled properly, and when the parents sought treatment for him, they had them put arrows around the house which they would all follow crawling several times a day. Once he had done a certain amount of crawling (at age 5) he began to talk normally.

My husband's brother didn't talk at all for some years, and then when he got angry about someone bullying his sister, he spoke up loudly and then spoke just fine after that!

I'm not trying to discourage homeopathic help, though.

PS- The "walking around in circles" makes me think of the brain patterning done in the crawling exercises.

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kescah,
Thanks for the note on crawling. Actually my son never really crawled much. He always insisted pushing something while walking right early on. He was fully running by a year old.He looks about 41/2 or 5 now and he just turned three. The humming or slight moaning sound really gets me sometimes. If you remind him he stops. He just hates to say what you want him to say or answer.Sometimes he just like to go on about silly rhymes or nonsense. This of coarse brings tons of frustration when meeting skeptics or critical people, in him. If it is a very friendly persons he immediately is social(more verbal than usual)if not he sometimes just screams or tries to stare the person down(he looks like a freak at this point)It is like only a few people see the real him!!This is the number one reason why it is hard to bring him to a homeopath.

Points like this help in choosing the remedy, perhaps if you tell us more about him, such as sleep habits, food cravings and aversions, relationships, appearance, etc., someone will be able to suggest a remedy.

If he did not crawl, he still should. My friends took their son to Philedelphia somewhere to a clinic for help with that, but I have no way to find out exactly where. That was 20 years ago. They played crawling games throughout the day with him, following arrows, and it really took up a lot of their time. They had to enlist the help of other people in order to work and keep house, etc. Perhaps a remedy would resolve it, if so it would be easier.

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Dear Lyn,

What's his sleep like? What are his fears?

Any frights (animals, the dark, etc.) or vaccine reactions to report?

Any high fevers?

Is there an issue about getting the head wet--such as in the shower or swimming pool?

Any head injuries?

What are his food desires?

Snoopy

I'm considering the following remedies, based on what I know now:

Tuberculinum, Chamomilla, Calc-phos. and Stramonium.

Snoopy

Hello again,He only some times radomly has fears of animals. Sometimes he likes the zoo and farm sometime he is dying to get away fast.But if you sit with him in the car and wait he will calm down. He has had no visible reactions to vacc. he is a very picky eater by sight. has bno parrticular cravings. He likes nut butters,hummus,oatmeal,bread,juice,chicken, meatloaf,hamburger,tortillas,no fruit,only spinach,creamed he will eat sometimes squash or swet potato. Has a fear of the table to eat sometimes. Likes to eat in restaurant better,has more manners then,always did. Is a bigggg drinker of anything. was born 34th week and weighed 9lbs 11 oz. no diabetes in me or him. His eyes phase out sometimes(his dad too)He fakes a lot of crying but sometimes i feel it is frustration of not talking. H e has afear of people that seem to me judgemental of him. that is the only way i can describe it. that are not completely accepting. the problem with seeing a homeopath again is that he freaks out when someone is trying to figure him out. he goes balistic. he keeps saying bye bye bye bye.Then again he can act completely normal except for speaking.I have tried tub. and cham. with a homeopath along with a zillion other things. ant other questions I am not so good at this.

Dear Lyn,

It's good to know you have already tried Cham. and Tub. so we don't waste time repeating them.

Stramonium is in the rubric "Thirst for large quantities" as a "2". The description "going ballistic" also makes me think of Stramonium.
Has stram. been tried?

Snoopy

What does the tongue look like?

Also to consider: Veratrum alb.--meaningless, repetitive actions, intense thirst, restless, must be constantly moving, hyperactive, disobedient children.

Snoopy

I was reading about stramonium it sounds close.i have never heard of vertium alb. What do you think 30x to start 2x a day. He was given tub 30x because he use to bang his head when frustrated. didn't see a difference though. he sometimes now hits his head with his hand if he is in trouble. He does always calm down after a while. His teeth are a bit decayed and two of his front bottom teeth grew in together-fused.He is rubust -rosy cheeked was large most of his life so far.Tall not chubby though.no circles under his eyes. no real allergies. his bowels use to be very runny and yellow and potent(looked like breast fed even after we stopped after one year. now they are more formed. won't potty train.screams if I even mention it.Except for about twice a year he never is sick. If he does catch something it always sounds like him in the beginning of his life_wheezing-croupy-phlelm-chesty can't cough it up.ant tart. never worked.I'm still thinking.his tongue is ok normal.lately his breath is kind of bad and his cheeks are very rosy(this is sometimes the norm,the cheeks I mean).