Life-Changing Sleep Improvements and Resolved Digestive Pain for Child with Autism

Belen is brilliant with kids. Um, she's very warm, she's very friendly, she's very kind, and just very welcoming. He has his challenges with, uh, concentration and giddiness and stuff like that. She's very patient. She looked at him as a whole rather than a child with autism. She looked at everything with him, and she's just a lovely, warm person to deal with. My name is Deirdre Rigney. I'm from Offaly in Ireland, and I'm a radiographer. So before working with Belen, um, my little boy h- had sleep issues, um, he had bowel issues, and he had, uh, focus and concentration issues. Well, his sleep was very poor, so I myself was getting very little sleep. Um, he would go to bed at a normal time, but he would wake for maybe three or four hours in the middle of the night and then would struggle to get back to sleep. So we, we, we'd pretty much be up from 3:00 AM. So then he wouldn't have enough energy in school. And then myself, I wasn't getting enough sleep, wouldn't have [laughs] enough energy for work, and I'd be tired. And then, you know, when you're tired, you're on a short fuse, and he's agitated, I'm agitated, just it spirals then. And he was constantly complaining of a pain in his tummy. He has autism, so it was very hard to understand whether that was a genuine pain in his tummy or it was a pain somewhere else. Uh, he's only seven, so it could be pain anywhere in the body. She was recommended by, um, someone else, um, that I was seeing, uh, for a different part of his autism. And I suppose the more you learn about autism and you learn about basically gut and the brain and the balance that is between the two, um, I said I, I, I'd try it because I didn't want to go down a medication route with drugs for sleep. And so I contacted Belen, and that's when we started to see her. So, uh, within a week he was sleeping through the nights, uh, which was life-changing. It's, it's a slow process because, uh, Belen doesn't rush into anything. You know, we've had some tests done, and she's been working slowly with him because if you change things drastically with a child, you could upset the balance and you could get irritability. So we've been working quite slowly, but that's the way it has to happen because you can't make these changes overnight. Um, so he's sleeping better. I haven't heard him once say he has a pain in his tummy since we started the, the changes in his diet and the changes in his nutrition and with some of the supplements that she, she has recommended. That has gone completely. Um, no digestive issues whatsoever. Um, he's overall a quite a happy kid now. Her approach is all natural. It's all scientific-based. It's all researched. I'd recommend if you have any issues with a child with colic or pain or, you know, bowel issues to give it a go. You can only benefit. I've been working with Belen for almost a year now, and I don't see us stopping.