Gail and Donna about pica!!

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> In a message dated 2/2/01 11:20:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,

duffey48@a...

> writes:

>

> << The

> very second she comes in the door, she heads to the living room

(candle

> searching) and then the bathroom (soap hunting). I have one

candle in the

> living room and one in the dining room that I love, but when

Maddie's home,

> they go on top of the mantle. >>

>

> LOL Donna!!!!!! Sounds like our house!!!!!!! Seth chewed the

cable cord off

> today. Good thing we don't have cable anymore! He chewed it right

off and

> then handed it to me! LOL What a kid! Now he discovered the

window sills.

> Ohhhhhhhh how on earth to I keep him from eating them??????? This

kid is

> literaly eating us out of house and home. I find the pica harder

than the

> downs and autism put together.

> Gail

Sometimes i find this pica stuff worse too. showed pica

behaviors back in pre school. I think in some ways its better,right

now his favorite thing to chew on is his daddys ties...(you can bet

daddy doesnt like this) and crayons is a new favorite! these guys

make new the term " eating us out of house and home..they are actually

EATING the home! lolol sorri had to say that!!

Marie