Triumphs & Tribulations

Kingsley has already been on a gluten & dairy free diet, which has been very difficult for my picky eater. This past week brought triumphs with her trying 3 new foods, which I was very proud of. She tried and ate Corn, Apples, and Pancakes!! Yayy!!
...This triumph was slightly overshadowed by the results of a recent blood test which showed she had a severe reaction to Rice, Soy, and Eggs. Since these are the main staples of her diet I felt defeated. Back to the drawing board with her diet. My saving grace is that since she had so much success with new foods this past week that this progress will continue.

Another thought...
I really wish there was a database of all grocery foods that you could search by eliminating the ingredients that you are allergic to. Ie. searching for foods without Gluten, Eggs, Soy

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How to clean poop off of carpet in 3 easy steps.

I know that I am not the only mother of a toddler with autism who has had this problem. No matter what I do, she still always ends up one step ahead of me. Just when I think am supermom and outsmarted her by having her go to bed in a full-zippered one piece PJ (on backwards of course so that she cannot unzip it),  I will go into room first thing in the am (of course this usually on a morning that I am in a time crunch to get her somewhere), and I am faced with a"dear god help me" scene. My daughter  naked and covered in her own poop, which she has also taken the liberty to smear into the carpets and all over the walls.

I am fairly certain that I have tried every carpet cleaner which i could purchase grocery stores within a 20 mile radius of my house. I resorted to ordering ones I had not tried online. Then I tried making DIY-Carpet cleaner recipes I found online. This is by far the easiest, most effective way that i could find....

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TACAnow.org

I first heard about TACAnow.org, which stands for "Talk About Curing Autism" from reading Jenny McCarthy's Book Louder Than Words. I had put checking the sight out into my mental "to do list," but did not get to it until I realized that every time I would google something relating to autism, that a source of that site would come up. Once I finally had a chance to explore it I found enormous amounts of information in a very easy-to-understand fashion. Under their "Family Resources" lie a treasure of resources. My first major exploration was  the GFCFSF section, where I found information that I had not yet been able to find organized all in one place like this. I highly recommend checking it out, especially the Family Resources.

Healing-Arts.org

I came across this website and found it very helpful at giving somewhat brief overviews on the various theories about autism, and also information about different treatment options.

http://www.healing-arts.org/children/