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| Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds | 
 enlarge | Author: Jenny Mccarthy
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 911
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0525950699
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928588200922
EAN: 9780525950691
ASIN: 0525950699
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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Product Description
Stories of hope and recovery from a nation of parents of autistic children, by the high-profile, bestselling author of Louder Than Words.
When Jenny McCarthy published Louder Than Words, the story of her successful efforts to save her son, Evan, from autism, the response was tremendous. It hit #3 on the New York Times bestseller list; and Jenny and Evan were featured on the covers of several magazines, including People. But what she hadnt anticipated was the overwhelming response from other parents of autistic children, who sought her out to share their stories.
No two autistic children heal in exactly the same way. And in her new book, Jenny expands her message to share recovery stories from parents across the country. Mother Warriors, shows how each parent fought to find her own childs perfect remedy of interventions and teaches parents how to navigate safely through the many autism therapies.
Along the way, Jenny shares her own journey as an autism advocate and mother as well as the progress of her son, Evan. Emotional and genuinely practical, Mother Warriors will inspire a generation of parents with hope.
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Fighting a bigger battle than just her child-Kudos to her! November 30, 2008
As a mother of a child who is no longer considered autistic, I have to say I am impressed with the passion Jenny McCarthy shows on this issue. I remember when my son was only a baby before autism entered our lives, I was at the library looking at baby books and I came across one of her books on motherhood. I remember thinking "Yeah right, what can Jenny McCarthy teach me about motherhood". Im not the "up-tight" type. Im just a 40+ mother of a small child who never thought much of the "new generation" of MTV/reality tv. Playboy either for that matter. I had no interest in her views. But I had to eat my words when I learned she was going through the same thing I was. While helping her son find his voice she found hers as well. When reading "Louder Than Words" I found myself relating to alot of what she was going through. My son didnt have the seizures her son has. Like any mother of an autistic knows no two children are alike. She points this out many times in both of these books. I'm sure most parents feel much of the same emotions as she feels. I admire her straight forwardness in both books. This is what captured and held my attention. I have read many stories of autistic children but I have to admit my favorites are stories of those that are recovered. You can go to any website, support group, or blog and learn of the daily struggles, the heart ache, the expense, the theories, and treatments. But quite honestly, after reading so much, if Im going to take the time to read a book on autism I would rather it be one of HOPE: A success story written by an autistic. Or a story by a parent who sucessfully brought her child out of the world of autism or helped him/her to function in the world the best that that child can. For this reason I liked this book. What a good idea a book of many success stories. My favorites are "A Real Boy","The Boy Who Loved Windows", "Let Me Hear Your Voice" "Look Me In The Eyes", "Thinking In Pictures". I believe this particular book "Mother Warriors" was too short and too one-sided (All the children have gut issues.) I get that her agenda is to educate as many people as she can. Her focus is on what hurt and helped her child. And like she said this info may help many more, so how could this be a bad thing? I dont think it is a dangerous book, we are smart enough to take what it is we need from this book and go about helping our children. So if you try the diet and it doesnt work what harm have you done. The harm is if you stop vaccinating, but she doesnt advocate that. She is fighting for a new, safer schedule for the vaccines for every person's child. She, like other parents of autistics can fight the best battle for their child because they care more for that individual than any other. I also watched her on Oprah and what I walked away with most was the emphasis she put on a new schedule for vaccines. Also something Holly Robinson said about the small window of time we have to best help these children. The window of 0-5yrs of age especially 0-3 yrs(early intervention). This is what I believe helped my child so therefore I am an advocate of that. Who could blame me? A person will support what works for them. I was lucky to have a pediatrician that didnt waste time. When I was concerned about my son not talking at 1yr old (I read "The Boy Who Loved Windows" when my son was only 6 mos old). His doctor said if he isnt saying Mama and Dada by 15mos and meaning mom and dad then he will make a referral and by 18 mos old we had the diagnosis. Within 2 mos he was in early intervention and I believe that was my son's ticket to recovery. He had the toe walking, hand leading, hand flapping, lack of eye contact, solitude. I too would have stopped at nothing to recover my son so I am impressed and sympathetic to anyone who has to fight for their child. This book in particular was filled with alot of good info and I believe anyone who has a child who is on the spectrum should listen to ALL mothers who speak of autism then make up their minds for themselves on the action they will take.Please dont judge others who chose differently. We are all fighting the war against autism and there are those that want to silence us and have us accept what we're dealt. But Jenny is fighting a bigger battle than just one child she is fighting for all. Could the book have been better? Absolutly. Is she a great writer? Not particularly, but she is getting a message out there and making people think about the bigger picture. That is what parents have been wanting to happen for a long time. Read the book. If you dont like it donate it to the library maybe others will read it and get more out of it. If changing just one thing in this book can improve your child just a little isnt it money well spent?
 FOr those of you who think vaccines are safe November 23, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Jenny is right, vaccines are not safe for everybody - WHY NOT FIGHT TO MAKE THEM GREEN? There's nothing wrong with the book for educated parents. If you have a child with Autism, like I do, you'll try ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to help them.
Here are some vaccine ingredients just to gross you out -
DTaP
three germ toxoid components
saline
2-phenoxyethanol (alcohol used as preservative)
aluminum
formalehyde
Hep - B (what they want you to give your newborn
Hep B surface antigen
Aluminum
saline
yeast protein
formaldehyde
Rotavirus
5 live viruses
sucrose
sodium citrate, phosphate, and hydroxide
polysorbate 80
cell culture media
traces of FETAL COW BLOOD
MMR (my personal favorite)
three live, attenuated viruses
saline, sugars, gelatin
human blood proteins
residual cow fetus serum
neomycin (what is in neosporin - not supposed to be injected)
traces of chick embryo proteins
"other buffers and media ingredients"
Chicken pox vax has MSG - no kidding
shoot em up eh?
 Wonderful read! November 23, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a wonderful book - I got it in a timely fashion, it was brand new as stated, and exactly what I had ordered. The book was amazing, containing more wonderful information that I had even imagined. I am thrilled with it - worth every penny!
Mother Warriors November 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a book I could not put down. I am passing it around to therapists, parents, grandparents and teachers of autistic children who are not yet convinced that the diet might be beneficial. It is easier for some of us to read because there are less four letter words. I totally understand that they are a gut response and may be the only means of expressing the feeling at the time. But I believe it packs more punch to use better English and let me read between the lines. I thought Jenny's style in this book was much more accomplished and polished and she is fulfilling the commission that she was born to do.
 Very one-sided and not as compassionate as expected November 13, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was let down by this book. For the first half of the book, I enjoyed the stories Jenny shares about herself and other mothers of autistic children. It was informative and touched my heart by the challenges these parents were facing. I never knew about the degree of immune system issues autistic kids tend to battle and hearing some of the methods to treat those issues was great. Jenny refers to it as healing autism, but it isn't healing autism. The methods simply treat those issues and some heal the health concerns, but not the autism. Having their health improve allowed for fewer regressions and more skill advances, but the autism is still there. But after these first few stories, the book's appeal and common sense started deteriorating.
It is not a secret that Jenny does not like vaccinations, but she eventually starts blaming them for autism. There were no facts for this accusation. While she mentions many pediatricians ignorings autistic kids' physical health issues, she goes on to ignore their factor in the immunization process. Most of her stories include kids who had compromised immune systems and were getting vaccinated at the same rate as a healthy child. She also denies the potential genetic links in families that can lead to autism, but she does include comments from other family members about how they have those recessive health issues. The fact that she denounces other scientists but is infuriated by them doing the same to her beliefs is frustrating. Both have valid points, but you wouldn't know that from this book.
I was disheartened by the way many of these people spoke about mourning their children. Many of them talk about how they had to mourn their child once he/she was diagnosed with autism. Mourning the loss of a traditionally healthy child is one thing, but these people talk about how they won't accept anything but their child "returning" to them as happy and healthy. My impression was that these people were so focused on ridding their child of the diagnosis that they were ignoring who their children are, including being autistic. I've never look at autism as such a horrible thing until these people spoke about how awful it was to look at their kid knowing. My cousin is autistic and I would never have thought of him any differently than him having a learning disability. Something he has to deal with, but not something that is death sentence as these parents treat it. Autism is not something to be ashamed of, but I didn't get that impression from these stories at all.
I found this book very hard to read by the end. I was so angry at her comments on the ignorance of certain scientists and how they weren't listening to her scientists. But she also goes on about how her scientists from DAN! know more than any other drs when it comes to autism. She never seems to consider that it could be a little from column A and a little from column B.
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