Time Flies By...

I sort of fell out of the habit of recording my "recipes" when Grace got a bit older and demanded more of my time... but the diet [modified] goes on. She goes in to be allergy tested (FINALLY) on April 1st, and that's NO JOKE. :-) She'll be 10 months old then, and a blood test will show us enough to know what to stay away from.

In the mean time, I have found that milk protein was never a problem for Grace. I have a heart problem that requires antibiotics when I have any procedures done, and giving birth was a risk, so they loaded me up with tons of IV antibiotics before, during, and after her birth. That messed her gut flora up, and that caused a great deal of the bleeding. Once I started GOOD probiotics (not the kind from Walmart, which are not stored in the fridge), her poopie started looking good and normal. After a few weeks of the probiotics, I reintroduced dairy and she had no problems. Slowly, and one at a time, I reintroduced other allergens into my diet. Eggs made the blood return immediately. So did corn. But nothing else on the list I was avoiding *seems* to cause her any problems. When I talked to her doctor about this at her 9 month check-up, she said that the doctor who originally saw Grace when the blood first showed up didn't test for [insert long technical name that she used for what happens to a baby's tummy when they get antibiotics early on], and that was probably the problem all along. Even the GI doctor didn't think of it. If we had seen her regular doctor first, we probably could have avoided the whole ordeal. But everything happens for a reason, and through this I have found out that I have an intolerance to wheat... and I have lost all of the baby weight, and then some. I went from a size 8 post-baby to a size 2 at 8 months. Not bad.