Re: Will this work for Nicky

[Guest guest]

Mache:

I can completely relate to your situation. I am finally engaged to my first

love from 17 years ago and I honestly believe he is the only one that could

have gone through this with me. I think what you are saying shows that you

are a great Mom....there are a lot of parents out there that wouldn't even

think about attempting a diet like this let alone anything else. If you can,

after your child goes to bed make it " your " night, rent a movie, forget the

dishes (they will still be there tomorrow), sit with your hubby and enjoy

each other making your topic of conversation just about the two of you. It

may take a little effort and it may take thinking before you speak but your

relationship with one another is just as important through all of this. Hope

this helps!!!

Kim in Washington

[Guest guest]

Mache:

When we first found out about our son's PDD, I was a complete basketcase.

It turned our whole world upside down and for the first year and 1/2,

maybe, all my husband and I did was focus on our son. We also had

another infant at that time and we felt like we were just bumbling around

in the dark about the whole diagnosis and treatment, etc. It feels like

an eternity away now though. is so much better than he was and

really the diet did wonders for us. We're able to have time to think

about other things and enjoy time as a family. It took us a long time to

understand how best to treat our son and a lot of tensions occurred over

not knowing what we should be doing. We got through it though and I

believe we're stronger as a couple now. We've endured and we so happy to

see our son becoming a wonderful little boy.

Good luck with all you're doing. It's a hard road, but it does get

easier!

( & Malachi's mom)

[Guest guest]

Mache, you are not alone. I am also new to the diet and have been having

many of the same problems as you. My son is subsisting on potato chips,

fries, juice and sausage. I cannot seem to get him to eat anything else. I

have recently not been as diligent and have been letting him have some of his

foods with small amounts of gluten in them. He seems so happy, but I can

tell just in a couple of days of this that he seems more " spaced-out " and

more stimming. As far as being hard on your marriage.....YES it is. At

least for mine and other mothers I have talked to. My husband cannot

understand why I am so obsessed with all the various treatments available to

try. He wants my son to get better, but is leaving it all up to me to decide

what and when to try them. Then he wonders why I have no energy or desire to

spend my last precious spare moments with him before bed. ( i'm sorry, I

guess I needed to vent about this!!!) I love my husband and think things

will eventually get better between us, but right now I have so much to do and

the clock is ticking on helping my son. Good luck. I hope I am able to get

my motivation back to doing this diet seriously once and for all.

(Aidan's mom)

[Guest guest]

> Before this diet my son was drinking pedia sure and eating lots of mac and

> cheese.

> Mache

Did he eat, or will he eat, cookies or muffins or ice cream or chocolate

milk or any other high-calorie junk foods? You can make these gfcf, or buy

them already made gfcf, and consider them to be only transition foods that

you use to keep him on the diet and no thinner. ( I made brownies

practically daily at first, while I make them perhaps once a month, or less,

now.)

While a suitable mac and cheese would be hard to find while the taste of the

real stuff is not yet a distant memory, you can make tasty buttered noodles

with rice pasta (I prefer Tinkyada or Pastariso brands) and a gfcf margarine

such as Hain soft safflower.

It must be hard if your child just won't eat and is getting thinner, but in

almost all cases, the child does eat enough within a few days, and then they

are off and running. If he is truly addicted to gluten and casein, he will

test your resolve and commitment to the diet.

Lorilyn

[Guest guest]

My son never had these things either. The only thing he had was very hard

stools. Sometimes he would say " ow " the whole time he was moving his bowels.

The diet did wonders for my son. He had a regression period of almost 3

weeeks and some kids are even longer. Don't give up hope.

[Guest guest]

My son never had these things either. The only thing he had was very hard

stools. Sometimes he would say " ow " the whole time he was moving his bowels.

The diet did wonders for my son. He had a regression period of almost 3

weeeks and some kids are even longer. Don't give up hope.

[Guest guest]

My son never had these things either. The only thing he had was very hard

stools. Sometimes he would say " ow " the whole time he was moving his bowels.

The diet did wonders for my son. He had a regression period of almost 3

weeeks and some kids are even longer. Don't give up hope.

[Guest guest]

Oh please, my husband seems to get jealous at times because I've focused so

much on this diet. It took awhile to set him straight and to tell you the

truth now we do have more time for each other. Before the diet my son was

joined at my hip and only Mommy could do everything for him or he would have

a fit. I can now tell him to watch T.V. in the playroom with his brother

because Daddy and I need some time alone and he's o.k. with it. Just wait a

little bit. Once you get the basics of the diet and can basically do it from

your head things will be alot easier for everyone.