How the GAPS Diet reversed symptoms of autism in just two years in a young girl who is no longer on the spectrum and living a normal childhood.
I knew my daughter Hannah had autism when she was only 12 months old although she wasn’t professionally diagnosed until age 4.
Now at 6 years old, after being on the GAPS Diet for 2 1/2 years, Hannah no longer carries an autism diagnosis and the progress she has made has been nothing short of life changing.
What’s more, Hannah has successfully transitioned off of GAPS in recent months and is now eating a normal traditional diet which includes grains and starches – with no regression or recurrence of symptoms!
For those of you new to GAPS, it stands for Gut and Psychology Syndrome. Â GAPS is a temporary diet that was designed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MDÂ to reverse autism in her own son. Â GAPS works to heal the gut lining, rebalance intestinal flora, and help with nutrient absorption.
In a nutshell, the GAPS Diet cuts out grains, sugar, and starch, and adds in foods rich in probiotics, healthy fats, and amino acids needed to heal and seal the gut wall. Once the gut lining is healed, many chronic health problems magically go away- things from autoimmune diseases to behavior problems to eczema.
Yes, even autism!
Hannah’s Story of Reversing Autism
I had been keeping an eye on Hannah’s development from 4 months old when she wasn’t making eye contact, rolling over, or interested in anything other than nursing, I knew something was up, but it was right near her 1st birthday that I looked up the diagnostic criteria for autism, and realized that yes, she most likely did qualify as autistic, though most professionals won’t diagnose it until 3 years. It wasn’t until she was 4 that she received a formal diagnosis from a professional, but I knew I needed to start intervention as soon as possible in order to give her the greatest chance for a full recovery.
I started by keeping her on a Weston A. Price Traditional Diet of all organic, nutrient dense foods as she was weaning, but when I didn’t see improvement with that we tried the gluten free casein free diet, which helped her ability to learn temporarily. Â After awhile, however, she lapsed back into ‘autism land’.
As a desperate young mom with an autistic toddler, and now her infant baby brother, I continued to search for ways to help my child. Googling ‘what to do when the gluten free casein free diet stops working autism’ brought up the GAPS Diet – this was 2009 when GAPS was just beginning to be known across the internet.
It took me a few months to work up the motivation to place my small child on such a restrictive diet, but the waking up every 2 hours all night every night, her not making progress in speech or occupational therapy because she was unable to learn, and wanting so desperately to improve her quality of life pushed me to give GAPS a try. Just after Hannah’s 3rd birthday I said we would only try GAPS for 30 days. And I tried it with her, to make sure I felt okay on such a different diet than typical Americans eat.
Starting GAPS
We started GAPS with the intro diet in November 2009. I saw such great progress with her (and myself- GAPS cleared up a dairy allergy that I’d had since childhood, in just 6 weeks of the intro diet!) that I committed to keep going.
She was able to learn again, and seemed to be starved for GAPS food; she was actually eating more than I was as a lactating mother!
Continuing GAPS as it was needed
We continued GAPS for 2-1/2 years, working to heal the gut lining. Hannah’s digestion improved, and she started eating less after having been on the diet for a few weeks- her body was so starved for nutrients at first that she would eat everything in sight, but slowed back down to a typical toddler amount after a few weeks on GAPS.
The most exciting part of Hannah’s improvement on GAPS was that she was once again able to learn. Â She started making progress in speech, occupational, and physical therapies. She took an interest in other children, was sleeping well at night, and was happier during the day. GAPS gave her quality of life so much improvement, that there was no question that we had to continue the diet as long as it helped her.
As we continued, I got better at cooking GAPS food. In the beginning we ate vegetable soup, cooked chicken, hamburgers, and scrambled eggs nearly every day. GAPS forced me to be more creative with the allowed GAPS food, and I was able to expand to very enjoyable meals!
Hannah knew her diet was different, but she was content with her food. Other parents would look on at me jealously as she gobbled up eggs, meat, fruit, and veggies. The diet took effort to continue with, but once we had been on it about 6 months it just became routine.
Transitioning off the GAPS diet after 2 years
GAPS is intended to be a temporary diet, so after Hannah had been on it and doing well for 2 years, I started trying some foods that weren’t GAPS legal about once a month. We started with potatoes, popcorn, and whole raw milk and she did well. We continued introducing new non-GAPS foods and watched carefully for any reactions (wheat was the last thing we introduced). If her gut wasn’t healed enough to tolerate a food I saw reactions in the form of skin rashes, night terrors, or loss of eye contact- every person’s reactions would be different though.
In June we traveled to California for my little brother’s wedding. She had been transitioning off GAPS for 6 months by then, so I decided to just let go and see if she could eat what everyone else was eating. She did great! No reactions to the food at all. We were officially and successfully done with our GAPS and food allergy journey!
No longer Autistic!
Though Hannah still has some learning disabilities (I believe this is from the long time that her brain was bombarded with toxins pre-GAPS, and we’re trying other therapies to continue to help with this), she just was tested this fall and no longer meets the criteria needed for an autism diagnosis.
She has benefited so much from the GAPS diet, and has come so far from the 12 month old who would just fuss or stare off into space all day. She is toilet trained, loves interacting with peers, talks, learns new things, makes great eye contact, and is getting much better at accepting changes to her routine.
We still eat mostly GAPS at home, since it is such a nutrient dense diet that our whole family thrives on. But being off GAPS means that I don’t have to stress when we’re out and we can just eat what everyone else is eating.
The GAPS diet has been amazing for our family, I am so thankful that Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride wrote the GAPS book in time to help Hannah. I’m also thankful it’s not a diet we have to be on for life, but it was so worth it to stick with it for the couple years we needed to be on it.
About Cara
I’m Cara, and I write at Health, Home, and Happiness. Because I was so overwhelmed when starting the GAPS Diet, I put together some resources to help others who want to do GAPS.
I have GAPS friendly meal plans (full GAPS), a book that helps you get through the more strict Introduction Diet, and even a guide to help you stock your freezer with GAPS friendly foods.
More Information on the GAPS Diet
GAPS Diet: Heal Your Autoimmune Disease Now
Overwhelmed by the GAPS Diet? Â Help Has Arrived
How to Speed Healing and Shorten Time on the GAPS Diet
The Five Most Common GAPS Diet Mistakes
GAPS Diet Heals Ulcerative Colitis
5 Steps to Healing IBS Naturally
FPIES: Resolving the “Other” Food Allergy
Chronic Stomach Pain and Bloating Gone!
I suffered with undiagnoseable stomach problems for 4 years and tried everything. Went on Gaps for about 7 months or so then started adding traditional foods back in. All I needed was 7 months for my specific problem cause now I am totally well and can actually go out on a date with my hubby once on a while and have a “normal” restaurant meal and not get sick or have NO pain!!! We still eat traditionally but it’s nice to not have to worry if we are unable to for a meal. God is good!
awesome.
@Ti Bergenn: I know Dr. Campbell-McBride was compiling a book with people’s GAPS success stories. I don’t think it’s been published yet.
I am interested in hearing comments from people about hypotheses on the causes of autism. I don’t have any personal familiarity with it. I have been wondering, for example, about vaccines (which are not mentioned here). In this article and the comments is mentioned “genetics,” and “toxins,” and “toxins in the brain” and “healing the gut lining” and if a diet can reverse or cure this condition of autism, it has me wondering what was the trigger in the first place. A vaccine injury? That seems a likely possibility (then, how many children who do not receive vaccines, have autism symptoms? and of those who do, what are common factors — genetics? exposure to toxins in some other form?). If it is exposure to toxins, what are all of the likely vectors other than vaccines?
It just seems to me very curious that a genetic condition that can be quite serious can be helped this dramatically through diet alone (and a temporary diet, at that). It hints that there was some kind of injury to the gut (how did the injury occur? what was the nature of the injury?) and that the injury was brought on or exacerbated by the items removed in the GAPS diet.
Is autism *caused* by something in the diet in the first place (whether in the mother’s/father’s diet before conception or in the infant’s diet/through breast milk)? Or is it that an injury occurs in the infant’s gut at some point which allows toxins to get through to the brain, which otherwise would not (why are infants more vulnerable to this? adults can have injuries to the gut, too, right?)
Forgive me for my ignorance for not having personal experience with autism or the GAPS diet. I just have many questions! I’m interested in the latest thinking on causes of autism, how to prevent it.
This GAPS diet sounds so wonderful.
I think it’s a combination of many things, our case Hannah wasn’t vaccinated, but I was and I had tons of antibiotics as a child. I didn’t eat well during her pregnancy, but did with her (typically developing) brother’s pregnancy 2 years later. I took probiotics with his pregnancy through cultured foods, and had raw milk, grassfed meat, etc. Her pregnancy was also more stressful than his, which I’m sure contributed.
I don’t think it’s any one thing, but more the product of a LOT of the things that just became popular in our culture (antibiotics, processed food, vaccines, etc)
Hi Cara!
I have 3 kids and a ton of questions for you. First, I think you are just absolutely amazing and I’m thankful that moms like you exist.
Now, I would love to get my entire family (all of us have spectrum like qualities with my sons having it the most extreme–however that is not my largest challenge) on the GAPS diet. That said, just thinking about meal time with my youngest son (never mind trying to change anything) gives me an instant migraine. Your daughter being so young I can imagine it was a bit easier to move her toward the GAPS but my son doesn’t simply become upset over something new, he becomes a wreck. He is very particular and any changes no matter how slight, can set him off. He can’t even stand to sit next to someone if they are eating something repulsive to him. We have been working on things and have made some major improvements but I could never just up and change his entire diet without causing a massive meltdown that I couldn’t be sure how long would last. Do you (or does anyone else) have any ideas on how to introduce this without causing him and us undo ill? He is 7 years old with high functioning autism, though I don’t like to think of it as an illness. He’s one of the most loving and wonderful people I have ever known. What concerns me more is the physical problems my children and I share. I am 36 years old and have had chronic pain since I was 12, have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, both osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica and several other issues like ulcers, IBS, GERD, etc. My 15 y/o son also has arthritis and chronic migraines. We are all very hyper flexible and probably would qualify as having EDS as well. We’re in very rough shape. I have been walking with a cane and slowing down my physical activity gradually over time after fighting a losing battle since I was 12. I’ve heard the GAPS diet can help us. Up until now, I’ve only tried going gluten free myself. There is a major difference in over all feeling but the pain still has no change.
I should also mention that I am anti medication. I spent about 2 years weaning myself from them. I’ve learned that a lot of my new symptoms could have been prevented by never taking certain medications. My children were also partially vaxxed and I refuse anymore.
Please feel more than free to email me if that would be easier. [email protected] and that goes for anyone who may be able to give me some helpful advice. Thank you so much!
Hi Heather,
Does your son do well with social stories? I love social stories, but they might be a little young for him. At 7, lots of kids with HFA are also very interested in learning about GAPS. I’ve heard of families with all ages and abilities of kids start GAPS, so I know it’s possible. The gaps yahoo list could also be really helpful too http://gapsdiet.com/Support.html
It does sound like your family could really benefit from GAPS, good for you for looking into it!
Mine may not be the most helpful suggestion because I have no experience with autism, but I do have partial custody of my niece who had never eaten anything but candy, fast food, and hot box items before coming to live with me. It was a huge struggle to get her to eat, but what worked for me was slow changes in disguise. What I mean by that is I would try to recreate the look of foods that she would eat and substitute healthy foods in there. Granted she was only 2 so it was a little easier to dupe her, but she would not at all eat anything that resembled a traditional meal. To start off, the only thing healthy she would eat was cheese. So, I found the healthiest cheese I could and she ate that whenever she wanted. To get her to start eating eggs, I put them inside a tortilla, melted cheese inside, folded it over, cut it into sections and told her it was pizza. She would eat quesadilas at Taco Bell and called those pizza. So I made “pizza” and disguised the eggs in so much cheese that she didn’t even know she was eating them. Honestly, a lot of things were disguised as cheese in the beginning. Puree cauliflower and mix with cheese, for example, then over time, start leaving the pieces a little bigger, until she’s actually eating cauliflower. Then try cooking it in other things once she has accepted it. Also, she wouldn’t drink plain milk, only chocolate milk, so I would put maple syrup in there and tell her it’s chocolate milk. Less and less maple over time and she’s drinking plain milk. And salt and butter or coconut oil can really add flavor to things. It was important that no matter how well or poorly I disguised something, to always have it tasting delicious. If it tastes good enough, you can sometimes reveal your secret and it will be accepted. Not in a “I tricked you” sort of way, but more like, “did you know there are a few *insert item* in here?”. Obviously some of my choices weren’t completely healthy, but they were as good as I could get them while still making sure she’d eat it. The more things she accepted, the better I could branch out. It was a very slow process. And she still almost always avoids all things green (unless they’re gummy green, of course). The point was that it was (is) a very slow process with many steps, but every step is an improvement.
Except for the ages of your sons, Heather, I could have written that exact same post myself! Amazing. Our experiences are SO incredibly similar. You wrote: “I am 36 years old and have had chronic pain since I was 12, have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, both osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica and several other issues like ulcers, IBS, GERD, etc. My 15 y/o son also has arthritis and chronic migraines. We are all very hyper flexible and probably would qualify as having EDS as well. We’re in very rough shape.” If you change 36 to 39, 12 to 4, and 15 to 19, you have my life exactly. Wow. At least I know I’m not alone. And my other son currently being eval’d for Autism is almost 3.
As Cara said, there are many environmental factors. A large one is mercury — from the mother having had vaccines or contaminated water or even dental fillings. This can get to her unborn baby and cause neurological problems, including autism.
I was lucky my own daughter didn’t have autism. I ate terribly, had mercury toxicity (unknown to me at the time), had taken birth control for a few years prior to getting pregnant with her, took a lot of OTC drugs during and after pregnancy. I was so nutritionally depleted I was sick most of her first few months. By age 2 she was obviously speech delayed, plus she had severe food intolerances (terrible eczema, diarrhea, night waking, possibly night terrors, chronic diaper rash, etc.). She could only eat a few foods and mostly didn’t want any of them. She was severely deficient in certain nutrients as well, based on a blood test, and later was tested as having mercury in her system, although she was not vaccinated.
We also did GAPS…and after just a few months she began to speak in full sentences, potty trained, and her food sensitivities disappeared. She’s almost 5 now and you would never know what her first few years were like. I have no doubt we’d be dealing with a much more serious situation if she’d been vaccinated…her body was already holding onto metals, and we even had a doctor basically say as much when we were first seeking answers.
In contrast, my youngest (16 months) was totally different. I ate a nourishing diet for months before I got pregnant with him, I had undergone detox to rid my body of heavy metals, etc. He’s been incredibly healthy and robust and has developed at or well ahead of his peers in every aspect. He says more words now than my oldest did at age 2, and about as many as my second did at age 2. His pregnancy was very stressful for me as well. I’m now pregnant with my fourth and very curious to see how this baby will be, after years of being well-nourished and not being so stressed!
If a baby is exposed prior to birth because of the mother’s health, and is born with autism (or anything), then yes…that baby is probably going to have residual symptoms/issues for life. There is something about being exposed so early in development that is pretty rough. For babies exposed post-birth, for whom the toxic load becomes too great at a later stage of development, I believe they can fully, or nearly fully, reverse their symptoms. We were lucky with my daughter, and she bears only a couple of tiny personality quirks that do not affect her learning abilities at all (she is really weird about being touched — hates it unless it’s her idea, but you wouldn’t notice this unless she was already upset and someone was trying to hold her down or something).
There’s SO much research out there, this little comment box really isn’t enough to get into it, but I encourage you to keep reading other places. If you don’t yet have kids, make sure you nourish yourself well and get rid of any chemicals from your life several months before conceiving and try to address any health issues you might have, obvious or not, before having babies. There’s no way to 100% prevent anything but this will go a long way.
I *really* appreciate all of this information. Sigh, I have already had my children. They do not have autism, but there are *some* quirks, as you say…. I guess I will not know this (they are older teens). I’m one of the people who found this nutritional info somewhat late in life; I sure wish I’d learned it earlier, for my kids’ sake as well as my own.
But now, even though they are beyond the age where I can strongly influence (or control) their diets, I do share with them what I’m learning, as I learn it, and I hope that they will take it to heart, learn more on their own and bear healthy children (if they choose to have them).
Kate, I’m interested inf you want to share, what you did to detox your body of heavy metals. I have several amalgam fillings (small, and all of them at least 35 or 40 years old; I’m frankly curious about that, why I got so many cavities when I was a small child and then all of a sudden stopped getting them…. I don’t know that my diet changed for the better as a teen… it’s just very curious… kind of makes me wonder if I really DID have cavities or if I just had a gung-ho dentist? I have no idea, just wondering) and I’d love to remove them, but it is very expensive and hard to find a dentist who knows how to do it safely. Are there other things I can do in the meantime?
I appreciate everyone sharing their stories!
Eliza, please see my reply to you below.
I have a brother who is autistic since 4 years old. He was able to talk in short sentences until he took the measles injection at 3 years old got a high fever and started to slow down in speech subsequently. He is 20 years old now and for the longest time i had always believed that food played a huge part in changing a child’s behavior something that my parents refused to believe. This article had been such an eyeopener on the GAP diet and i am definitely going to try it out and introduce it to other families with autistic kids…It may be a slow process for my brother but i am sure it will ensure that my brother’s certain behaviorism will change positively.T hank you posting this article.
What an awesome story!! I wish I could send it to my ex-husband because his 2 youngest children are autisitc. When my daughter returns from his house, she will always be so upset because of what my ex and his wife will feed the kids. My daugher has been on a WAPF diet for 6 years now (she’s 17) and it always frustrates her that her half-siblings aren’t being nourished properly. Last Christmas, while their entire family dined on prime rib, her half-siblings ate McDonalds. My daughter came home the next day infuriated because her dad just doesn’t get that it is the food they’re eating!!
Feeding the children McDonald’s while the rest of the family eats prime rib at Christmas is so very sad. I will never understand why parent’s think children can’t eat what everyone else is eating, and need “kid food” instead. My friends are always amazed when they see my children (5 and 2) happily eat things like roasted beet and goat cheese salad, shrimp scampi and cocktail, salmon cakes, etc. I’ve always fed them what we’re eating, from the time they weaned.
Could your daughter print up a few short blog posts, or articles from WAPF, and ask her dad to read them? That’s how I started our real food journey with my husband, who was completely on board from the time he read those first, short articles I gave him. 🙂 I didn’t rant, or preach or anything else. I just told him I’d read something really interesting, and asked him to read it too. As I continued to research, I would give him a few more, short articles a couple of times a week. It worked like a charm. The key is not to overwhelm. Find one or two, short, but high impact articles. I don’t know why any father wouldn’t agree to read something his daughter thought was important enough to share with him.
For the sake of her siblings, it’s worth a try. I wish her luck in getting through to him.
Jen- Thanks so much for your thoughtful reply! I want to come to your house for some roasted beef and goat cheese salad! Yummy!
My daughter has tried to implement some articles she has found, but he always hands them back to her, and depending on his mood, will respond with either, “I read all day long, I don’t want to read when I get home from work” or if he is particularly foul he’ll say, “Did your mother tell you to give this to me? She needs to mind her own business.” And then he’ll scratch his head as to why he isn’t close to our daughter and I’ll get blamed for putting a wedge between the two of them. My daughter now only goes over to his house for Christmas because she has tried for 17 years to have something in common with him, and he takes no interest in what she likes. She likes food and likes to read about how food heals. To him food is something you pick up after ordering into the clown’s mouth.
Last year I got in trouble because the day after Christmas, my daughter was to be dropped off at 1 pm. He got mad at me because I’ve turned her into a “health freak” who wouldn’t eat the perfectly good food he has in his house. Later, when I asked her about it, she said, “Hey, I made a sacrifice to eat his corn-fed prime rib last nite, I wasn’t about to follow it up with his frozen toaster waffles this morning”!! Yes, she was starving by the time she got home, but immediately had some home-made yogurt from raw milk and said her world was right again!!
I’m sure she will continue to gently try to get him to come on over to the WAPF way of life, but it will be difficult as now his children are 7 and 9 and are accustomed to boxed Mac and Cheese.
I have observed that nutrition is like religion and I think it is SO hard if two people get married, and then ONE of the two people “converts” to a very new nutritional philosophy — and the other one is adamantly against it. This is a tough, tough thing. Especially when there are children involved. I have seen this and experienced it myself…. the mother (usually? I don’t know) is the one who does the research and changes her philosophy, the father pushes back, there are immediate decisions to be made (vaccines, diet for the children) and if both parents are not on board, it can cause serious marital problems, even divorce. And I am not commenting on your situation specifically — I have seen this problem drive wedges through families. I am currently wrestling myself with my own “conversion” and my aging parents with all of their ailments and I feel so sad, I know they could be helped by changing their diets, but I cannot even raise the issue anymore, not even when my mother gets pushed into receiving Fosamax by her doctors…. they think I’m a total loon and alternative wacko who has lost my mind. So… do I submerge who I am in order to keep the peace? or do I be who I am, and alienate my loved ones? These are tough things to consider, whether it’s a marriage, a parent and child, etc. And when the children are little, there is a grave responsibility in taking seriously how we feed and raise them. Not all husbands and wives go through life completely in tune with each other. It is so very hard when opposing and exclusive disagreements (to vaccinate or not? to circumcise or not? as an example) arise. How nice it would be if people who are compatible when they marry, stay that way for their entire lives, or at least compatible enough. I feel compassion for those families where one (or more) members has a “conversion” that puts them at severe odds with loved ones.
I can totally relate to what you are saying. Since I’ve been with my husband I’ve converted to both Catholicism and real food. It’s been a huge struggle for me. I’ve often wondered and prayed if being with someone who views the world completely different from me is the right thing to do. The real struggle, though, has been with the mothers of my stepdaughter (7) and my niece (3). The girls both live with us half the time and with their mothers the other half. It really seems that their mothers are anti-Catholic and anti-real food.
My step-daughter has never been diagnosed, but she is so obviously ADHD, has some digestive issues, and seems to be developing learning disabilities. I try and try to do my best to feed her healthy when we have her, but when she is with her mother, she gets McDonald’s, candy, you name it. (I won’t even get started on how my husband shovels allergy meds into her at every cough or sniffle, and what happens when I try to intervene).
My niece is extremely smart, but after about 6 months of eating healthy with me, she began to get terrible diarrhea when with her mother. Her mother then found out she was getting raw dairy at my house and demanded that I only give her pasteurized. She was convinced the raw dairy was giving her diarrhea. She even claimed to have asked several doctors about it and they confirmed her suspicions. Of course, I will not give her pasteurized milk, but it’s just a shame that as much as I tried to convince her mother that the milk was healthy, she just sees it as just the opposite. Apparently the mom’s idea of a healthy meal is a Slim Fast bar. And she gets soooo much sugar. She is always crying for candy and cookies and cake. She even thinks “fruit” is those gummy fruit candies! It’s so hard to get her to eat what I cook sometimes.
It just seems that everything is a constant battle in my life, and I’m the only one fighting on my side. (I feel like either having a sob fest or a panic attack nearly every day) But I’m still fighting!
Interestingly, though, about her diarrhea, I made the mistake of drinking some store bought eggnog a few weeks ago and developed the same problem. I’ve tried pasteurized milk since then and it did the same thing. I never had problems with pasteurized milk back when I ate SAD, but now it tears my tummy up. Pasteurized cheese doesn’t bother me or Kerrygold butter, so I suspect maybe it’s the lactose in the milk. I don’t know, but I think it just goes to show how unhealthy that stuff is. Not to mention that raw grassfed tastes so much more delicious!
I rejoice with you in your amazing success with GAPS. We also started GAPS in the fall of 2009 and have a had a lot of success with helping my two children with learning disabilities and other issues (SPD, ADD/ADHD). I believe my son would have gone down the high-functioning autism path without us finding GAPS. I commend you for your effort to educate others about the hope that is available through alternative interventions. Word is getting out there, but we still have so much work to do to spread the word! God bless!!!
My child has high anxiety . Do you think this diet would help her ?
I went to a local store and received Mental Calmness by Natural Factors. My son is anxious too, at just 6 years old. Try cut one in half if your child is young, and they can chew it, honestly it’s not bad at all. I have noticed immediate improvement, but it’s hard to say. Let me know if it helps!
Oh, and Holy Basil tea is what I use because I am stressy too. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree here. Mom has less stress then kids have less stress.
All the best!
My daughter had high anxiety. We’ve done therapy and it’s helped. However, the greatest improvement we saw – within days – was to eliminate refined sugar completely. GAPS does that.
Thanks for sharing Heather. This is very interesting and my really help my family.
Wendy Haynes
Loving the parents who work hard to find help for their children. Kudos to all on their efforts.