Sad Gut Flora I had Joshua stay home today due to his cold, instead of going to church.  Bryan and Rachel stayed home as Rachel was also sick.  Before leaving, I gave Joshua a kiss and said “Bye, bye.  I love you!”  I was thrilled to hear Joshua reply with an “I love you”, before [...]

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Joshua said “Good bye!” Wow!  It’s been a while since I’ve journaled.  Joshua has become quite the trend setter at   Developmental Pre-school.  Since we have to provide his snack with his special diet, I’ve been sending frozen peas for him to eat.  Now all his class mates want to eat peas, too!  Ms. Katie had [...]

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“How to be an Educated Consumer” I had the opportunity to go to The Autism Center lecture on “How to be an Educated Consumer”.  It was quite interesting.  He was discussing the various studies having to do with treatment and causes of autism.  It was heavily weighted on the medical model, in my opinion, as [...]

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Joshua had a productive time in Speech Therapy, however, he was frustrated that he wasn’t given full range to do what he wanted.  I’m constantly amazed and impressed by Amanda, his Speech therapist.  She is trying to see how he will do with using pictures to express what he wants.  I’m so glad he gets [...]

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We have had quite an interesting day today.  Joshua had chicken and pear sauce pancakes for breakfast and seemed to like them okay.  The hard thing today was when I gave him his CLO and he cried before I gave it to him, yet resigned himself to it and took it.  Afterwards, while eating breakfast, [...]

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“Time to take your medicine!” There are a variety of Cod Liver Oils to choose from.  Currently, we are using Green Pasture’s Fermented Blue Ice Oslo Orange Cod Liver Oil.  It tastes gross.  I tried it.  CLO comes in liquid, capsule form or chewy squares.  The only real option available to us, is the liquid [...]

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Healthy changes We stayed home yesterday as I had an unsettled tummy as well as Joshua needing to get over his cold. I made soup stock and it was good. I’m trying to give Joshua, and everyone else, more stock to drink. Joshua won’t drink the stock but he’ll eat meat and veggies (except carrots) [...]

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Getting Sick Joshua seems to be coming down with a cold. He’s had a mild cough for a day or two, but now he’s been reported as lethargic at developmental pre-school and when home, he’s been clingy to me and seemed a bit warm when I put him to bed tonight. I can’t find the [...]

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No More Nuts: Full Intro GAPS diet I decided Friday, I think it was, to cut out all nuts out of Joshua’s diet and try to cut back on fruit to help with his diarrhea. He also hasn’t been taking his cod liver oil, despite it being offered. The good news is his poop is [...]

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Intro GAPS Diet and GI issues Joshua met me this morning with a huge poopy pull up. Poor kid. I cleaned him up and got him in the tub before breakfast. That, and other issues, led to us missing Mass, which saddened me. I want to get the kids to daily mass at least once [...]

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