Noah's progress onj Nutriiveda

May 3, 2010

My just-turned 4 year old grandson, Noah, has been drinking the Nutriiveda for

about 4 weeks now. I read everything I can on apraxia, including " The

Latetalker " and various info on the internet. I joined this forum to become

better informed on apraxia and to see if there is anything out there that can

help Noah. We all want what is best for our children and now our grandchildren

for those who have been blessed with grandchildren. I find myself trying to do

as much for him as I did my own children. Hence the Nutriiveda and his progress

since drinking it. The first week he was on it, he went to his regular speech

therapy session. My daughter called on her way home with him and said that the

speech therapist was almost in tears. She said Noah had progressed 10 times

better since the last therapy session. (Noah goes to Head Start and has speech

therapy in school as well) The last couple of visits since then she continues to

see more progress. Noah has the full range of apraxia symptoms, he is so heavy,

feels like a ton of bricks trying to pick him up versus my other grandchildren.

He had torticollis (the neck laid over to one side and it took physical therapy

to help him be able to hold it up) when he was a baby, and his little ankles

turned in a bit, had to wear orthotic like things in his shoes (not saying these

are from the apraxia) he used to fall a lot, his little head still bears the

knots from falling, but he's gotten so much better now. He wears glasses, his

eyes turned in a bit,and his depth perception is off, too.

Now, not only are we seeing progression with his speech, he still only says a

few words but is trying to say many more and is saying them with much more

clarity than before, but he noticed that he didn't like being wet, he was still

in diapers. He started feeling where his diaper was and wanted to be changed. I

told my daughter then, that he was ready to be potty trained. They had worked

with him before, but he wasn't having any part of it. Now in the last few days

he's only had a few accidents and some of the accidents, I think are from his

lack of communication skills. He can sign some, but with this, he mostly runs

for his potty chair.

He has been diagnosed with some sensory integration issues as well. At his

house, they have to put everything up or blocked from him except his toys. His

attention span is so short, that he literally reminds me of a hummingbird, he

" flits " from one thing to another so quickly, it's really hard for him to learn

anything, but after keeping him one evening in my home, since the Nutriiveda, I

actually can tell a difference in his attention span. Another thing my daughter

was excited about was Noah's ability to lick an ice cream cone the other day.

Something so simple that anyone who has children without apraxia take for

granted caused so much excitement with us.

That's Noah's progress the last few weeks. He's a beautiful little boy and like

any parent or grandparent, we only want the best for him, mentally and

physically. I will continue to buy the Nutriiveda for him and pray he continues

to progress. I'm so encouraged that I am going to start drinking it myself (need

to shed a few pounds)and my daughter, his mother, has recently been diagnosed

with rheumatoid arthritis, I'm going to encourage her to start drinking it as

well.

May 3, 2010

Farrah it was so great to speak with you and I am so happy that you shared your

grandson's update here! I can't believe how many grandparents are the ones

buying nutriiveda for their grandchildren -and the parents are shocked it works.

It appears more so than anything else we've ever brought up here- wonder why

that is you know? Well it's like I said to you -Mother really does know best!

haha

In reading all the testimonies what I have been trying to do is in addition to

speech and motor surges -look for other common ground. One of those would of

course be the growth spurts that are happening in weeks, and continuing. The

one that you point out is the sudden ability to potty train. One of the

theories can be that because nutriiveda, especially in the first few weeks,

creates a larger amount of stools (fortunately soft ones...not loose but soft)

it may enable the child to " feel " that need to go to the bathroom. Or perhaps

there is another reason based on improved motor skills, maturation- or one of

the other things we are hearing reported.

I can't recall who else talked about their child potty training once on

nutriiveda quickly when it was being taught forever. But like Farrah when you

share updates -please share all the good things you are seeing. If we keep

hearing the same from a number then we can let others know going ahead to look

for this too!

We also can add these things to the survey

http://pursuitofresearch.org/survey.html

(PLEASE take the survey if your child is on nutriiveda!)

Yay Noah!!! I am THRILLED he is on nutriiveda- my belief in this is through the

roof.

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May 3, 2010

that was my son. We had been working on it since he was 18 months. He was in

cloth diapers, so would feel wet, but it never clicked. We would talk about it,

read books, point out when others (even the dog) went, he'd go when he woke up

cause I knew we could catch it. But at 3 he just didn't want to/didn't get it.

Then a few weeks after turning 3 we started him on NV. He was irregular those

first few weeks, but when he needed to go, he knew it and would run for the

potty. After about two weeks his BM became regular and he was fully potty

trained. On the third week of NV, we had three days of intense errands where we

were in strange places or in the car from 10 AM til 7-8PM and he didn't have one

accident. There were a few things that played into this. He is fully dry both

day and night, and 99% of accidents are user error (mommy's fault)

1. NV normalized him and he seemed more able to recognized the need to go and to

feel wet. Also he was drinking more which seemed to help with that as well.

2. He doesn't like to do anything until he can do it just right, so pulling

pants off and on was a huge barrier. He's just now developed the coordination

to figure it out.

3. Distaste of being wet. This is actually funny. The third week on NV and the

second week of potty training, he started to freak out whenever he was wet

anywhere. Even a drop of water on his arm was bad. Finally, I let him play in

the bath for hours which helped him get over that.

We are finishing the fourth week on NV and he's on 1/2 a dose (which from what I

understand most kids don't improve until on full dosage) I've updated all the

other things that have improved, sleeping through the night, interacting more

with others, initiating contact with kids his age, imaginative play, dancing,

singing, speech becoming really clear (My brother is an OT working with elderly

and he has made several comments recently about how much improved my son's

speech is, he wasn't around when my son had no language, but has seen my son

recently about from about two weeks before starting NV), longer more complex

sentences, potty training, the last week my son has been dreaming and telling me

them in the morning. He's gained 2 full lbs in the past three weeks.

Liralen

> In reading all the testimonies what I have been trying to do is in addition to

speech and motor surges -look for other common ground. One of those would of

course be the growth spurts that are happening in weeks, and continuing. The

one that you point out is the sudden ability to potty train. One of the

theories can be that because nutriiveda, especially in the first few weeks,

creates a larger amount of stools (fortunately soft ones...not loose but soft)

it may enable the child to " feel " that need to go to the bathroom. Or perhaps

there is another reason based on improved motor skills, maturation- or one of

the other things we are hearing reported.

>

> I can't recall who else talked about their child potty training once on

nutriiveda quickly when it was being taught forever. But like Farrah when you

share updates -please share all the good things you are seeing.

>

> Farrah it was so great to speak with you and I am so happy that you shared

your grandson's update here! I can't believe how many grandparents are the ones