Hair Testing and the Like

When A was about 5 months old, we started her on a nutritional balancing program.  Nutritional balancing (NB) uses hair mineral analysis (a sample of hair in analyzed at Analytical Research Labs in Arizona) to reveal mineral imbalances in the body.  It took awhile for her hair to grow in enough to be able to send it away to get analyzed, but her hair came back to show that she had high levels of heavy metals and that her body had several underlying infections she was struggling to fight off.

You can read more about why that would be here.

While we've tried to keep her on a program as much as possible, it was actually much easier to feed her supplements when she was not walking (or climbing, which is her only past time at this point).  While we've gotten one round of supplements in daily for the past several months, I'd really like to be getting her supplements in two times daily.

NB focuses on supplying the body with enough minerals to allow it to produce enough energy to deal with any health issues you are facing.  Personally, we love NB and after being on GAPS, Paleo and Weston A Price, it's by far the best and most economical option.

I'm pretty excited to see her results as we've continued to have her retested and move forward with NB.

July Appointments

So the weeks of three appointments rushed by and we have great news to report!  A face has rounded considerably and her occiput (the bone in the back) has "fallen" backwards, which will allow her skull to even out.

In "bad" news .... whenever I refer to bad news, I always think of this :)

Anyhow, her speech pathologist threw out the term "apraxia of speech."  That's a bit serious.  Or maybe it's not.  So, for now, SIGN LANGUAGE!  We'll be learning sign language together to help A communicate.  Is there a saint for sign languaging?

I will be posting a string of pictures to show our progress after this weekend (the hubby was away this past week, so 'nothing' but eating and sleeping happened this week).