The Prince and The Protien

One of the 3 leafs of the Clover House is Nutrition.
(I LOVE nutrition) Food Maketh the Man!

We met Philipa and she was very firm - but she knew her stuff (not like some of these 'pocket nutritionist's)

I'd done a basic 3 day food diary for my Prince - I knew it wasn't great, as we'd had a party, and had friends over at the weekend.

Well, the first thing that was said to me was 'he has a lot of milk, doesn't he?'. This surprised me, as we're very careful as to the amount of milk he has, he rarely drinks milk, but does like yogurt and cheese. - just to explain what she feels was 'alot' of milk, on an extreme milk day he may have - milk in cereal, cheese in his sandwich at lunch, and a yogurt for pudding.

So you can see now why, I was surprised that he had 'alot' of milk. All our baking is dairy free, due to my youngest being allergic to milk proteins (from animals with 4 legs!).

Anyway, my little Mr. T doesn't have wheat, it makes his symptoms much worse, and also give him bad stomach. But we had let it slip a little (der). Apart from the rest of our diet being great, we were told his breakfast is too sugary - he needs to keep his blood sugars balanced. Fair enough!!

So what do we need to do to turn around this tantrum-ing T-boy!?

Protein - for breakfast! Er< OK!

What does this entail? Cooking (at such unearthly hours!)

Mr T,: Pancakes, and cheese- urgh!! I'm not haaaaaving that (goes into that whinging crying mode, that we all know and 'love')

Day 1. Pancakes and baked beans - Surprisingly lovely  - Mr. T had 2 portions!!!

Day 2. Chicken and potato patties with tomatoes -  Last night's Leftover's and very nice!

Day 3. Poached egg (for me) pancakes, with CHEESE and beans - Ha ha, he loved it!!!

Day 4. Pancake and red pepper (Mr T's own recipe) - Boy he's getting the hang of it

So far so good, getting used to 'cooking in the morning'. Other changes is that he has rice cakes and peanut butter 'every night' before bed. Supposed to help regulate the blood sugars at night.

He is sleeping better, and last night it took 30 mins for him to get to sleep - he got to sleep at 9.30 -YEEESSS   Plus we were 'outside' the bedroom.

Keep you all posted!!! 

The Clover Approach

So My eldest son has Asperger's (more about this at a later date).
Lately he has not been sleeping to well - he's been fearful and waking.
Maybe this is just what happens at 6...maybe this is the Asperger's .

Luckily enough, I live across the road from a natural therapy centre Clover House
http://www.cloverhouse.org/ - this is them.

The only contact I had (until recently) was to donate my gliding chair to them about a year ago.

So after 6 weeks of sitting on the floor of my 6 year old's bedroom floor for up to 3 hours, just waiting for him to sleep - only to have to wake at night due to his night terrors.
We finally decided enough was enough,  (gluttons for punishment I believe). And phoned Clover House.

They take a 3 pronged approach (hence Clover Leaf) - Imagery Therapy, Massage, and perhaps my favorite - Nutrition.


We spent about 3 hours there, and my (oh so impatient) son, was not bored once!! :O


The Imagery Therapy went well - Blog to follow 

As did the massage,

The Nutrition was  interesting, as I instinctively knew what I should do, what foods affected him etc - but yes we were making mistakes.


I guess things are getting better, we are following the techniques - my lesson, trust your instincts, and ask for help (two of my biggest weakness')
perhaps I will learn one day!!


Will breakdown treatments in further blogs