Hello, I just joined this group. I have many concerns with my
daughter. She is 6. From birth I just thought I was a bad mom.
She never slept, cried continuously, was always sick. As a toddler,
the same. I thought will she ever sleep all night? When she was a
little over 9 months her dad walked out on us. I really thought that
her problems then was that I was trying to overcompensate for the
stress he brought into our lives. SO I pampered her...a little too
much. I met my husband when she was 18 months old and he thought
she was a spoiled little girl. She still slept with me, that was
the only way I could get some sleep. My husband and I had a son
when she was a little over 2. He was born with a skeletal
dysplasia. I had to cater to him, so then I thought that was the
problem. Not only was I up with a newborn, but a 2 year old too.
At this point I was in tears. With Austins medical problems and
Alicia's 'behavior problems', I was going insane. Might I add that
she has had a problem with clothes since she was small. Even
swaddled in a blanket she screamed. At five, in kindergarten, it
escalated. We fight every morning over clothes, it all 'hurts' her
and every night we fight over homework. Her teacher then started
sending notes home complaining, so did her daycare. Still she
wasn't sleeping. So I went to our pediatrician at the end of the
year. She confirmed that Alicia has ADHD w/tactile sensory
disorder. She has been on the lowest dose of concerta since. It
has worked out good, until recently. She can't get the hang of all
day school. She gets home, goes straight to sleep (yeah at 6:00)and
then doesn't get her homework done. She screams out in her sleep
having nightmares, but can't remember what they are. She swears
things are crawling on her in bed. We constantly fight. She tells
me that she is bad. I tell her she isn't. She hits objects like
the kitchen table. Shew if someone has info to offer, I would love
it.

Lynette