leotardmakermum
Proud Parent
My daughter has chronic stomach aches. After the first one which lasted several months, she was eventually diagnosed with a dairy allergy. After the dairy had finally cleared out of her system, things improved. That was about two years ago.
Last year it happened again, and we investigated other food issues, removing yeast from her diet as well. That also improved things. Well, its back again (since late September), and I find myself again wondering what's going on.
I semi-regularly take her back to the doctors to be rechecked - whenever things get bad - just to see if some new cause shows up.
She's 8, trains 14.5 hours per week, and according to all her coaches over the years, has stomach muscles of steel. That is only a slight exaggeration. She is SOOOO strong in her stomach muscles that she can do the most amazing straddle holds, far above the height anyone else can get. So much so that she can do them on her elbows and still lift her backside way off the ground.
I knew she could do straddle holds well, but when her coach showed me a photo she took of her doing it on her elbows and I said "is that good?" and she explained why it is amazing, it made me think of things in a new light.
It suddenly made me realise (and I know this is thinking a long way down the track) that it might make childbearing difficult, as there will be nowhere for the child to fit! And then it made me wonder, "is that why she always has stomach aches?" I wonder if her stomach muscles are so tight that it hampers her digestion...
Has anyone ever heard of something so strange before? We have a doctors appointment for this morning, and this is one of the things I will be discussing with her. However, while she's a good doctor, she's not a sports doctor, so she may not have heard of anything like it before either. I don't suppose the general population encounter stomach muscles of steel every day.
Thanks for any input you may have for me. I have being following the other recent thread on tummy troubles with interest.
Last year it happened again, and we investigated other food issues, removing yeast from her diet as well. That also improved things. Well, its back again (since late September), and I find myself again wondering what's going on.
I semi-regularly take her back to the doctors to be rechecked - whenever things get bad - just to see if some new cause shows up.
She's 8, trains 14.5 hours per week, and according to all her coaches over the years, has stomach muscles of steel. That is only a slight exaggeration. She is SOOOO strong in her stomach muscles that she can do the most amazing straddle holds, far above the height anyone else can get. So much so that she can do them on her elbows and still lift her backside way off the ground.
I knew she could do straddle holds well, but when her coach showed me a photo she took of her doing it on her elbows and I said "is that good?" and she explained why it is amazing, it made me think of things in a new light.
It suddenly made me realise (and I know this is thinking a long way down the track) that it might make childbearing difficult, as there will be nowhere for the child to fit! And then it made me wonder, "is that why she always has stomach aches?" I wonder if her stomach muscles are so tight that it hampers her digestion...
Has anyone ever heard of something so strange before? We have a doctors appointment for this morning, and this is one of the things I will be discussing with her. However, while she's a good doctor, she's not a sports doctor, so she may not have heard of anything like it before either. I don't suppose the general population encounter stomach muscles of steel every day.
Thanks for any input you may have for me. I have being following the other recent thread on tummy troubles with interest.