Re: children losing weight?; Australian supplier

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Hi , I'm in Australia too. I purchased the Nutriiveda from

http://www.speech411.com/ - the cherub in shop service site. I used the priority

post option, and the Nutriiveda had arrived within a week (I'm in Sydney). We

have only been using it for a week now, and there are a few slight improvements

- as noted to me by my little boys daycare teacher when I picked him up on

Friday.

Although I feel it has been too early to show much in the way of weight

loss/gain, in my situation, I have a 24mth old boy who is such a poor eater

anyway that I feel it will help him to gain weight.

I will be posting about his progress shortly.

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> > > From: Dianne <degarrettjones@ >

> > > Subject: [childrensapraxiane t] Our Nutriiveda experience, so far!

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> > > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 12:56 PM

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> > > Hello all! We received our canisters of chocolate NV on Monday and began

that afternoon! My 5 yr old son Liam and I are both using it. I've started Liam

on only 1 scoop per day, because I'm having a horrible time getting it in him! I

don't think he objects to the taste as much as texture??? We know he doesn't

like milk shakes or smoothies of any kind, so we're feeling kind of limited.

Hubbie is picking up some coconut milk yogurt from Whole Foods on his way home,

so fingers crossed that will work and we can up his dosage to 2 scoops soon. For

myself, I started with 2 scoops and then upped it to 4 today.

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> > > First, because I haven't posted much and you don't know much about Liam -

a brief history. Liam was diagnosed with multiple protein intolerance as a

newborn and cannot tolerate casein or soy. He has a history of sinus, ear, and

respiratory infections and is small for his age. He was diagnosed with verbal

apraxia at 22 mos. We discovered 's book soon afterward and started Pro-EFA

& EPA, experiencing nice surges as we increased it. Over the past few years,

Liam has received additional diagnoses of high functioning autism/PDD-NOS, SPD,

CAPD - well, you get the idea - he's a real head-scratcher! He's hyperlexic, so

the big difference between his verbal and nonverbal/performan ce skills make him

difficult to evaluate, I'm told. Anyway, he's " apraxic from head to toe " (per

one of his SLPs), mildly sensory-seeking, and has the expressive and receptive

language skills of a <3 yr old, while able to do complex addition and

substraction and read at a second

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> > > Changes in Liam so far: Liam is a much happier child, with much more

energy. His attention has improved - he seems more " on. " Instead of wanting TV

all day, he hasn't even asked for it yesterday or today. Instead, he's reading

and wants to share the books with the rest of us. He is intiating play with us

more, actually creating his own silly games (apparently, they've been imitating

trains in preschool, which is thinks is hilarious, so he runs around the house

going " chuga chuga choo choo! " and then came to me with a variation: " Mommy,

when I say chuga chuga, you say moo moo! Ok, ready? Ok, go! " - he has never done

this before). He didn't cry about going to preschool yesterday or today - this

is a battle we usually endure every morning (he'd even get the calendar and try

to convince me that it's the weekend! lol). As I'm typing this, he has come up

to me twice and physically moved my face so I have to look at him while he tells

me about something.

> > > Definitely more engaged. He's considerably less frustrated and less

married to routine. We haven't noticed any change in articulation yet, but he's

requiring less cuing to answer WH questions. After preschool yesterday and

today, two different therapists noted that he was very engaged and followed

directions well (was the only one in his group who followed instructions on an

art project without help). They don't yet know that we're doing anything

different. Liam was still happy and energetic after his mornings at preschool,

which is new. Liam is kind of hyper since beginning NV, which under ordinary

circumstances I might consider to be a bad thing, but if he's feeling better and

more energetic, who can blame him for wanting to climb and jump all over

everything?! !! Oh - and he is drinking a lot more. This might seem like a

little, unimportant thing, but we usually have to bribe him to get him to finish

even one cup of juice at a meal - last night

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> > > had 2 1/2! Good hydration makes us happy!

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> > > I'm also feeling much, much more energy. I've already cut my morning

coffee from two mugs to one - just don't want it. I still have energy at the end

of the day, and yet I'm sleeping very well. My head feels clearer and I just

plain feel better. I'm 46 (my oldest child is in grad school and my youngest is

3 - yes, I'm crazy) and overweight and had given up on being able to lose my

extra weight, but this week I've already lost 4 lbs. It's all water - my ankles

are no longer swollen and my feet don't hurt at the end of the day. I was

underweight - a teeny size zero - until my mid-thirties, and then gained 30

lbs., followed by 30+ more after Liam was born, and doctors haven't been able to

tell me why, and diet and exercise have not helped, so I'm a great candidate, I

think, for this product. If it continues to help me with my health and weight

woes, it is indeed miraculous!

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> > > For those who are doing biomed/DAN protocol for their kids - if it helps

at all to know - we started seeing a DAN doc last October. Of course we were

already GFCFSF because of Liam's problems, and we had already added fish oils

and digestive enzymes with great results. We added Vitaspectrum multivitamins,

at our DAN's advice, and increased his calcium and magnesium (because he can't

have milk products) and vitamin D (blood test showed it was very low, by even

mainstream standards, as is common in my family), and added L-Theanine (which we

were happy to see is included in NV). Since beginning NV, we've stopped the

multivitamins and L-Theanine, but kept the other stuff.

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> > > Sorry that this ended up being so long! Hope it helps.

> > > Dianne

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