Re: SCD and Isaac

March 14, 2004

Marcella,

Thank you so much for sharing this.

These stories just make my day.

You had asked how to proceed from here. There is a chart that

you can look at that shows what foods are the easiest to digest

for the majority of people (there are always exceptions of

course), but seeing the chart might give you some ideas of what

to try next.

http://www.pecabread.com/foodprep.html

click on the link that says " Beyond the intro diet "

Welcome to the group!

Jody

mom to -5 and -7

SCD 13 months

March 14, 2004

Marcella,

What wonderful news about Isaac!

The whole time I was reading your post my eyes were filling up with tears.

Thank you for sharing!

Blessings,

Doreen scd day 10 or 11

asd 12, day 10 or 11

SCD and Isaac

I don't know what to say. I am ecstatic. We are on day 9 of the diet. And we

have a new little boy.

Once the diarrhea cleared up we started to see unbelievable changes. I

didn't go into this diet expecting to see changes with his autism. I did it

because he is skinny scrawny and always has diarrhea and can't seem to

digest anything. I just wanted him to physically be well and to gain some

weight. We tried GF/CF and Body Ecology for a while. We saw the most

improvement with BED but with both it was more along the lines of " do you

think he seems better? " " I think he seems a little better " . I didn't know

what better was till the past several days. Everyone who has seen him the

past couple of days has been shocked.

We have known a family for over a year that we get together with. Isaac

never played with the kids and never said their names or really acknowledged

their presence. Well they came over yesterday and Isaac said hi to the kids

and called them by name. This past week he had started asking for the little

boy by name and saying he wanted to see him. He really played with them. He

was running and playing tag with the little girl and even tried playing

memory with her(he is only 2 and she 4). That morning I walked by his room

and saw him playing with Mr Potato Head and that is when it really struck me

that he only plays with a few things mostly the boys trains. I have

never seen him play with that. He was making eye contact with the mom and

kids really well also. She said she had never seen him do that with her

before. We took them to the toy store also and bought Isaac some toy

elephants, besides he really likes elephants for some reason. He was

playing with two of them in his car seat. He sounded like he was talking for

them or to them. Then I heard him say in the kind of voice you use with a

baby " ooooh... I love you elephant " he then kissed the elephant and then

replied for the elephant " I love you too " . That is another thing he has just

started replying and saying he loves us too. He snuggled up to his daddy the

other night and put his cheek on his and said " I love you, Daddy " . Dh was

saying that he is having to adjust to this new child. He is just here in a

way he wasn't. He is paying attention to everything going on around him and

participating. Yesterday I noticed while working in the kitchen and making

breakfast that he was hanging around and talking to me. I spent all that

time just talking with him. He wasn't off in his own little world. He never

interacted with me like that before. And I had also been agonizing over

teaching him. We are homeschooling and Isaac would never really look at a

page. He wouldn't point things out and discuss or answer questions. Well ,

the other night we pulled out a book that was a book where the kids have to

find objects in the picture. I inwardly groaned when I saw it because I

thought " why did my dh pull this out? " , " Isaac can't do this? " Well, I

gave it a try. I couldn't believe it he was looking for and pointing out the

objects excitedly to me when I asked him. I just couldn't believe it. Every

day he is doing something knew. Last night he wanted to talk to my mom on

the phone. He usually just says " hi " and listens and stares , if he says hi

at all. Last night he said " hi, ya ya " and answered all her questions and

actually had a real phone conversation for a 2yo.

I am so excited but I am so scared. I know that might sound silly. But I

never dreamed of this and I don't want to lose it. I love him interacting

with me and throwing a temper tantrum because wants to play with " mavis " . He

used to just let his big brother always have his way and he never really

showed preferences for things or had strong opinions. He is just starting to

act so 'normal'. And I was thrilled with how well Isaac was doing before

this. He was always slowly improving. But I just did NOT see what he was

missing until seeing him with these new skills.

We didn't get the diet right the first several days. He kept getting

something he shouldn't have. He had diarrhea the first 5 days I believe due

to eating wheat and dairy the day before we started the diet(due to

grandparents). He is currently eating chicken, carrots, beef, fish,

zucchini, green beans and welch's grape juice sometimes made into jello and

we are adding cooked apple. I had been pureeing it into soup but this moring

he had his veggies whole. He at 3 whole bowls of chicken and vegetables. And

now I have to go and change his diaper. I am keeping close track of his

bowel habits. He is only pooping once a day now. I can't believe it. But I

am so nervous about introducing things. I am afraid of doing the wrong thing

and losing what we have. I need someone to tell me how this works and what

to expect next.

Marcella and...

3

Isaac 2 ASD

Fintan 9 mo

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March 15, 2004

Hi Marcella,

What a wonderful report.

I remember going through those tentative, scared- to- believe- this- is-

happening feelings. First with myself and then later with . And we did

have setbacks, major with myself and minor with but all the time we stuck

to the diet and continued forward. A food diary will really help you see

progress, buoy you upo on the hard days and give you an idea of good and bad

reactions to foods. If there are foods Isaac isn't ready for the food diary

will help remind you further down the road.

Butternut/buttercup squash is usually a pretty good food to go with next and

later well cooked asparagus tips (If he will eat them). For fruits ripe

bananas, applesauce, pearsauce and later ripe avacado.

Sheila, SCD 36 mos, UC 20 yrs

mom of SCD 21 mos

I know that might sound silly. But I