At 4 months old, Ryan received the DPT, oral polio, and Hib vaccines, again, which meant another 50 mcg of mercury. After this appointment, looking back at video footage, he was getting harder, instead of easier, to engage. Ryan was still not crying to get his needs met at this time, and would lie silently in his crib when put down, even if not tired, and when awake after a nap, until someone came to get him. He was an exceedingly quiet baby. And I just thought, oh, he’s so good!
At 6 months old, Ryan received the DPT and Hib vaccines, another 50 mcg of mercury. After this appointment, 2 very strange things began to happen. Ryan’s breath began to smell odd, a chemical smell of sorts…alcohol? Ammonia…which I now know was indicative of a serious yeast overgrowth problem in his gut. He also began to laugh hysterically in the middle of the night in his crib for no apparent reason…