Been on ProEFA for 4 days now...

May 7, 2002

Hi Marina and congratulations!!!!!!!!!! I don't think it's a coincidence

based upon my own experience and I too was very very skeptical because I had

been supplementing with a different brand for a year and so no improvement

with speech. Within days I had my first looking right at me and purposeful

mama. We have had regressions when she gets sick but the words don't

disappear they just became less frequent. Then the progress returns when she

is better. Good luck. Carolyn

May 7, 2002

and could I be wrong that I already see changes? On the second day,

my son said - pretty clearly, too - " I want to put my pants on. But

not these pants, my car pants. Please, daddy? " While it's not

unusual for him to request pants, or to string together quite so many

words, it was the content and method that was unusual. He normally

would have just yelled " NO!! " upon seeing the " wrong " pants and

whined when we told him no. Instead he asked for them.

He also said " animal " clear as day last night and has been able to

say the word " smell " with only a slight skip bw the s and the m -

something we've been working on for 3 weeks to no avail.

That's not the only incidence of this over the past few days. Even

my pragmatic, disbelieving husband has noticed it. Could it be this

fast??

Also, we're not telling the SLP he's taking it. Not only do I think

she'd frown on it (or think we had signed up for snake oil), but I'd

like an unadulterated opinion of his progress. While I really like

her, and she's wonderful with Zach, I don't feel that she's

entirely " with " us - she's still part of the hospital and will always

follow protocol, etc.. There's a degree of separation. On the

contrary, I feel like our pediatrician is much more an advocate for

the child, bringing his medical knowledge to the table without any of

the other " doctors know more than you don't question us " attitude. I

know so many people who've had a terrible time getting a referral to

a developmental ped - all I had to do was ask about the OT my SLP had

suggested and his reply was to go to a Dev Ped and work our way down

from there...

Sorry so long - just wondering if anyone has any thoughts -

Marina

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