Child’s first few months | ADHD Information

My son was a great baby .. had a soft cry and only cried to be nursed or diaper change.  He slept through the night at about 3 weeks and only woke me once during the night to nurse prior to that.  I couldn't have asked for a better baby!  He became very active at 9 months old .. climbing out of crib at night and started walking too.  He just seemed way to small to be doing these things but he was.  He was overactive but still great.  When he turned 2 things started to go bad .. ya know terrible twos .. only he didn't "grow out of it"!  He was still a great sleeper .. 7pm to 7am in his own room all night up until he was 5.  He is still waking every night at age 7 and I wake up he is on my floor sleeping on his pillow and blanket!  And that soft cry .. is so much louder .. he has an annoying high pitched loud voice.  Its rough on the ears. 

Our son was good at home until all of a sudden at 4 months things changed. He was a struggle since then. This biggest sameness I have see our kids had was the deliverys were difficult here. Our son had respitory troubles in first year so I thought is crying alot was do to that. He hated be confined at all. I just we wish we knew all his allergies then cause both our kids toddler eating was poor then. I think easier to change then also.

Petasure can used til age 10. Was used when our daughter didn't eat much. Meme gave it to her a lot when with her along with custer type yogurts. She loved these both. BN

[QUOTE=mellowdancer] But at about 4 months we "ferberized" him (let him cry it out at night) and then he slept 8-8 with 2 naps.  Go figure.[/QUOTE]

We "ferberized" my son too!  It hasn't had any long-lasting affect on his sleep patterns, though.  He would take his bedtime bottle, go to bed and then  cry until we picked him up and gave him another bottle.  Then he'd go to bed and cry until we gave him ANOTHER bottle.  Some nights it would be 1 am before he'd go to sleep.  The pdoc told us to let him cry it out, we did and the problem was solved.

Rebecca was a horrible baby, she screamed  all the time. I used to call dh at work and tell him not to work overtime, come home!! As soon as he walked in the door, I handed her over and left the house. Ofcourse for him she was good. Go figure. I had to sit on the couch and hold her, for her to take a nap, as soon as I moved a muscle, to lay her in her crib, she was awake. She would not go sleep in her crib at night, we layed her on a blanket on the floor and let her go to sleep, and then put her in her crib, she slept through the night then. I must say, she got held a lot. She had to go a childrens hosp. after she was born for platelette transfusions. Everybody had to hold the poor baby, after what she has been through. I think, thats where the "evil" cycle started.

Jacob was 4 wks early, and also had to have platelette transfusions. But he was the total opposite of her. he hated to be held when he was tired. I could lay him down anywhere, and he fuss and whimper himself to sleep. He slept a lot, sometimes I had to put a wet washcloth on his face to wake him up to eat. He slept through the nihgt very earlyand took two naps a day between 2 and 4 hrs. But he always had to have a nightlight on, still does. Maybe because there is always some kind of light in the NICU?

My baby was nasty.  Loved anyways, but not fun.

My son started out that way, but discovered it was his formula which we switched to a soy based one.  He was fine after that.  But when he got a little older like 9 months - 1 year, he started not wanting to sleep at night.  I would try rocking him, stroking his back, stroking his hair...nothing would work. 

Thank goodness he would stay up only til 11:00 and then he would be tired and fall right to sleep.  To this day, he won't fall asleep until it's 10:30 or 11:00...and then he crashes and doesn't wake up until morning.

my son never cried a lot, but he never slept. i would rock him to sleep and when i went to lay him down he would wake up and be completely recharged. what a joke that was. still doesn't sleep, never napped, the kid has dark circles under his eyes always, but he just can't stop thinking and moving long enough to really sleep. good to know i am not alone, and he is not a freak. When your child was first born was he/she a "perfect baby" that slept through the night and never caused a problem?  or was this a baby that would cry and cry no matter what you did, wake up everytime that they just had fallen asleep and you were putting them into the crib?  That is how my daughter was and wanted to know if this was a common factor also.

Sleep, what is that?

He hated to wear a onsie, hated to have it taken off.  Hated going in the car seat, hated to come out.  He wanted to control his world from day 1, & hated change.  At 10, he is still that way...........................   Never a sheep, always a shepard - there are worse ways to be.

 

 

csmommy38828.1878819444jude was not a bad baby,very social and smily.he ate alot,was overweight at 6 weeks old but he settled down and he is now a normal weight.did not sleep during the day but was ok at night.I always found him more difficult than alana but she was freakily good.he always has been accident prone and he had a lot of ear infection and vomitting spells for no reason.it is only at 2 years old that he started acted like he had ADHD.

My ADD daughter hardly ever cried, BUT she hardly ever slept either! Weaned herself off naps at 18 months and ever since, shes NEVER slept well. As a toddler I'd have to stay in her room until she nodded off & then SNEAK out of her room. She would (and still will) stay up till 2 am if I'd let her! Well, now we use melatonin & that helps a LOT! Shes finally getting the rest her body needs.

 

my daughter would cry so much that i would just start crying with her cause nothing worked, shes also DX hypersentive so i could barly hold her she would cry, she hated to be touched, would never breast feed, and would only use one kind of passie, now she almost 6 and not much has changed, isint amazing how they show sings from day one but their our babies and nothing could ever be wrong with them.. I love her to death im just glad it only one out of my threeMy son did not cry all the time but was definitely active!  He was up every hour to hour 1/2 to eat and did not sleep.  A typical nap for him was 20 minutes -- even as an infant.  I remember in the hospital when they would wheel the babies around to the mommies at night he would be the one crying until they brought him to me.Ds was a marvelous baby and only cried when he was hungry or wet/dirty.  Slept through the night at 3 weeks, too.  My husband and I decided that if we had another baby, it would be a terror because Pat was so good.  We knew we wouldn't get 2 perfect babies.  Little did we know how wierd he was going to grow up to be.   My son was a terrible sleeper the first few months.  I was nursing and cut back on almost all foods but pasta.  He would take 2 hours to get back to sleep when he woke at night.  And he would only sleep in his carseat.  But at about 4 months we "ferberized" him (let him cry it out at night) and then he slept 8-8 with 2 naps.  Go figure.

I love my son, but he was awful.  So shy if someone looked at him he screamed.  Could'nt take him anywhere.  Colicky.  Couldn't breast feed, normal formula wouldn't stay down, soy caused bloody stools.  We had to use special formula that was digested very easy and caused very runny diapers.  Had several horrible diaper rashes as he would poop at night and not wake up.  He was a very good form of birth control.

My ADD daughter was always restless, and slept very little during the first few months.  We were pretty much up and down with her all night long.  She took very few naps, and they were always short ones!

He was not a bad baby, pleasant for the most part.  He was very stubborn as he got about a year old and very defiant.  He had several serious health problems before a year of age- in and out of hospitals and many, many ER visits.  He became more defiant as time went on, and our divorce when he was 20 months didn't help the situation. 

I still hear about how much of his defiance and meanness could be from my own inconsistency.  I admit, with 5 kids, I am not completely consistent.  BUT- I am no more inconsistent with him than I am with the other children- and NONE of them are as stubborn and defiant.  Therefore, I DON'T believe this is from me.  Plus the fact that he is sooo changed since the meds and supps are working.

  My son was 6 weeks early, fully developed but very tiny. From the moment he came home(2 1/2 weeks later) very fussy. Would breast feed him till he fell asleep and he would wake up 3-4 hours later hungary again. I think this lasted till about 4 months. And I couldn't sit down and rock him to sleep, had to be standing. The second I'd sit he'd start screaming. He will take naps now, but I have to stay with him till he falls asleep or he gets up to play. He has always had dark circles under his eyes also even though he does get 8 hours sleep at night.