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Megan's height and weight on 1/1/14: 36 3/6 inches tall and 26.1 pounds

So much has happened with Megan since my last blog post.  She has been put on and taken off of several medications to help her sleep which did not work.  She was admitted to the hospital for a 24 hour EEG and lumbar puncture for lab tests.  She was put on a new medication that made her go crazy and then everything changed.  We had been researching, for months, things to help Megan.  We looked up everything we could regarding her sleeping issues and how we could help.  And then Will found it.

I asked Will to research insomnia and to include the fact that the medications weren't helping as a symptom and that finally brought up a diet.  The Feingold diet was developed for ADD/ADHD kids but works for several other issues.  There was a testimonial on the main page about a little boy whose issues/symptoms fit Megan to a T.  We started the diet as much as possible the next day and haven't looked back.

Megan is thriving.  She is sleeping (which of course was the original goal) but she is also excelling in other areas.  We expected her exhaustion symptoms to disappear but so much more has happened.  Megan now has a much, much longer attention span.  She will continue working on something instead of becoming frustrated.  Even if she gets to the point of frustration she is quickly over it and back to trying.  Previously she would throw what frustrated her and definitely not go back to the same thing.  She is compliant and obedient. She will do what is asked of her, including making eye contact on request.  She is happy and gentle and loving.  She is interacting and playing with Sam, not just a little bit but all the time.  She is following instructions and progressing.  She is so much more verbal, she is trying to say lots of different words and not just when we ask her to, sometimes she just points and says something.  Last night she pointed at her bible and said bible.  It was awesome.

The diet is a work in progress as we are still figuring out what triggers Megan and what is okay.  She seems to be really sensitive to some things so we are working on what's okay for her specifically.