It's the eczema, dammit

These (almost) three years of not sleeping can all be chalked up to the eczema. I've had my suspicions for a while, but now I really believe it. Our kid is not sleeping not because we are terrible parents (maybe sometimes), because we don't have a good bedtime routine or because he merely wants to torture us. He is being tortured by this horrible condition. The reason I know it's the eczema is because he has had two short periods of "remission" from the eczema in the last six months and both times he slept much, much better - like almost through the night. He's also had several very severe flare-ups and during those times we have been back to newborn land with him waking up and keeping us up ALL NIGHT LONG. With this see-sawing of his eczema (really bad or almost gone), I've really been able to make a correlation with his sleep patterns. I really hope the eczema goes away - and not just for the sleep issues. It's terrible to see your child uncomfortable all the time and not be able to do much about it - except apply lotion all the time, give daily tepid baths with special oil and watch that he doesn't eat too many histamine-rich foods. I know that being itchy is pretty much the norm for him as it is all he has ever known, but as I've had two eczema flare-ups myself in the last year (I never had it before - could it be sympathy eczema?), I now realize how much it sucks.