NV update and magnsium /digestive enzyme question

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Shea has been on nutiiveda for 4 months now.

I was really hoping for remarkable surges ,but ,we have had subtle slow progress

with ups and downs. First of all I started in way too quickly and too high of a

dose. We started with 1/2 scoop for three days and kept working up and by one

week later we were doing four scoops a day for our 50 pound 7 year old daughter!

We backed off after advice from here about 3 weeks of doing that and having no

progress. Since then, subtlely, I noticed memorizing spelling words was a

little easier for her,reading at times was more fluent,and gradually after a few

months her behavior was more stable(flying off the handle tantrums less often).

Her articulation hasn't improved that i have noticed but ocassionally others

have said they understand her a little better.

Also,she is trying to retell stories her Dad tells her following the sequence,

which was near impossible for her before, and she'll sequence happenings at

school or what she did, stringing the story on by saying " and then.... " " after

that then... " much better.She is also getting a better sense of humor, and

saying please and thank you most all the time.

But her grammer hasn't really improved yet,and she still leaves off alot of

words. She keeps going through a few weeks of stuttering pretty badly,and

getting stuck on the beginning of a word and not getting it out;sometimes her

jaw will be wide open and nothing comes out. Then the stuttering gradually

subsides for a few weeks.It's so scary. As I posted we did just move her from

regular Ed to self contained so there are not academic improvements to make a

huge shift in her performance, but there are subtle changes as I've said, and I

know some things seem a bit easier for her.It's hard to explain because it's not

blatant-but it just seems more... natural,maybe, at times.

Also, things that could be slowing progress and hindering major surges are

several colds(which she has had 2 different ones in the past 2 weeks alone), she

was on antibiotics twice(once in november for a sinus infection which she

probably had for about 3 weeks before i finally succumbed to the antibiotics,and

once in the end of January for strep),and she had an intestinal virus.

Furthermore, which I'd really love to hear feedback on, is about magnesium which

I just got brief information about being possibly contraindicated with NV. For

at least 2 months (around december and january) I was giving her a magnesium and

calcium supplement mixed in the nutriiveda. Could that have been impacting how

the nutiiveda works?

Also, a few days ago I read about a Mom using up old digestive enzymes in their

NV and they saw a marked difference with surges. I had some digestive enzymes

which I used in the past with Shea before NV and didn't notice any impact on

her(belly wise or anything). So last week I put a capsule in a few doses of the

NV . It was on last thursday and friday.

On saturday I took her to swimming lessons and for the first time she did the

free style for about 12 feet alternating arms swinging both arms up and out of

the water. She has been on the swim team for 5 months now and could maybe go

three to four strokes like that only -on a good day;usually her right arm is

doggy paddling under the water trying to keep herself afloat.

So,I still am adding it since then but she got really sick the next

day,sunday,and is still sick today with a sore throat and some stupid virus

making her tired and achey, so I can't tell if there would be any other cool new

things she could do. So, could the digestive enzymes be enhancing and maybe

making her absorb the nutrients in the NV better? I'm wondering if I'm doing

anything else wrong, or could be doing something else to get some really awesome

surges!

It is so helpful and important for everyone share what is and isn't working.

Thanks everybody! Cheryl