Growing Pains

Hi there ladies, just wondering how many of your kiddies are getting growing pains. Paris i am sure is getting them, more frequnetly this past week. especially first thing in the morning or after sleeps etc, she wakes up with sore legs.. At first i thought it was an excuse of some sort.. but i really actually think they are truely sore. Her legs are growing so long at an amazing rate right now. I massage her legs sometimes when she gets up if i have time in the mornings, which helps a little but she just looks so uncomfy and very grumpy lately too when they are annoying her.

what to do? is there anything i can do apart from the massaging them?

You can get antiflamme from the chemist, or health shops anything with euchalyptis and peppermint in it will help. I wouldn't recommend deep heat on children, it can be too hot. Apart from massaging them i susspect this isn't much else you can do. Part of growing up.

I'll ask Nigel tonight for you Janine. He (and the rest of his family) got the as they are all very very tall (as you well know). I'm not looking forward to Andrew getting them at all.

Poor Paris! I had awful growing pains as a kid, I used to cry they'd get so bad.
My Mum would massage them with tiger balm after a soak in the bath and if they still hurt panadol was the only thing that helped.
Usually the soaking and massage was enough though.

BM, do you mean sclerosis or scoliosis perhaps? That is when the spine is curved and can put the alignment of the hips and legs off by a certain degree. I had to have surgery to correct it or I woud have died within 6months. I had a 63degree curve, and now have a 15degree curve. The Harrignton rods they put in saved my life.

Other than the massaging you are doing now, I cant hink of anything except keeping warm over winter, they seem to play havoc over winter moreso than the other seasons. And I would imagine it will be a godd indication of them being tall in later life.

Keep up the massages, you are a great Mummy for taking the time to do that, and maybe if she is old enough you could teach her to do it herself so it can be done even when you dont have time. Just a thought, I dont know how old your poppet is...

Best wishes...

Xander has had growing pains in his shins off and on and we go down the pamol/nurofen road(due to his really high pitched painfull to listen to cry,which i am guessing he is in major pain).altho we have tricked him one night when we had run out of painkiller we gave his like 1-2 ml of dimetapp(norty i no but he settled back to sleep).it def sux cos theres not much u can do but yeah the other ladies have said it must be a sign of being tall later on(naths 6ft so yeah i no my 2 are already gonna be tall like him).

lol yeah cos mike aint exactly tall is he hehehe