Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me. He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old.
This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.
I suppose the bright side is that he didn’t weigh a whole lot, given that he was also a failure-to-thrive baby. [Read more…]
Gut dysbiosis — this topic is the motherlode. It’s one of the two core (in my opinion) reasons for the explosion of chronic childhood illnesses we see today.
“Failure to thrive” is when your child’s weight percentile falls to the 3rd percentile or below or when it crosses 2 or more major percentile curves. When either of these (or both, as in the case of my older son) happens, it’s an indication that the child is not growing as he or she should be.
Have you ever wondered WHY there’s such an epidemic of autism these days? Why is the rate now 1 in 50, when it was only 1 in 10,000 a couple of decades ago?
Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me. He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old. This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.
