Monday, August 17, 2015

GI visit

For those that may not know, Lilly has a dairy/soy allergy that was diagnosed when she was 6 weeks old.  Over the past several months I have had to cut out the top 8 allergens and corn.  Today was our first visit with a local GI specialist and we received the best report we could have!

First off, Lilly's poop was negative for occult blood (the first time since she was born)!!!!!  This was enough to make me jump with joy. Secondly, they told me that I could add back food groups to my diet just to wait and add dairy and soy closer to her first birthday, since there was obvious discomfort and many symptoms from these two.  You mean I can actually eat peanut butter again!?!?  Ah-what a relief! 

I can not tell anyone how hard eating an allergy free diet over the past 6 months has been, but so worth it for L.  I can't imagine trying to raise a child with so many sensitivities to food.  It is especially hard when you live in a culture that associates food with everything!  I can't wait until we can add dairy back, but for now there are plenty of alternatives to dairy and soy!  Being able to use eggs and gluten again will make baking so much easier! Gluten free baking is no fun!  

The doctor was also concerned that I was not giving my 6 month old, 17 pound 3 ounce, child solid food yet!  Look at her doc, she isn't starving from the breastmilk ;)  We experimented about a month ago, but with this news we will begin again tomorrow! 

The doctor is hopeful Lilly will outgrow the allergy to dairy and soy by her first birthday. Wooooo!! All of this good news couldn't have come at a better time with a family beach trip and lots of tailgates coming up.  We will have a follow-up appointment in October just to make sure everything is going well.  

Monday, August 10, 2015

Lilly's 1/2 birthday!

That's right, Lilly is 6 months old!  It's hard to believe, I feel like I just found out I was pregnant yesterday. What a fun month it has been. This month we played around with some solid foods, but decided we would wait to really start them after Lilly sees the GI specialist.  Lilly has been such a funny baby this month with SO MUCH personality. She demands your attention and found this month that fake coughing is a quick way to get it.  Lilly finally decided to roll over for the first "official" time; she still isn't a huge fan of rolling from tummy to back, but she rolls all over her crib from back to tummy.  We are working on sitting up, and she pushes up to hands and knees (crawling soon??).  Lilly loves tags, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, You Are My Sunshine, water, her dogs, and sticking out her tongue.  She has learned the sign for "milk", but can not sign it back yet.  Lilly is still the easiest baby to care for; she enjoys her 12 hours of sleep at night and most weeks 2 naps a day.  Can't believe we are halfway to her first birthday!

(Lilly refused to give me a smile for pictures, but as soon as her Dada was in the room gave plenty. I'm pretty sure she's going to be daddy's girl)









And for your enjoyment a few from this month:



My personal favorite :)


Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Life

Whoa! Life is flying by! Lilly will be 6 months old next week, SIX MONTHS! My little one has not been napping again recently, so that doesn't leave much time for dilly dally or blog posts :). Hopefully this week we are back to at least one nap a day. Hard to force Lilly to nap when she sleeps a wonderful 12 hour span at night!

Anyway, I am about halfway into my couch to 5k training. I finally hit the "I don't hate this anymore, I actually kind of like running again" mark this past week. Maybe it's the cooler temperatures in the morning and the beautiful sunrise, or maybe my body is finally getting use to physical activity again. Either way I am really hoping that by the end of this I will actually be able to run the entire 5k.

The next several months could hold a lot of changes for our family, but we just wait patiently and pray for the possible changes to come. Even though I am extremely nervous about this possibility of change, I know if it falls into place it is surely a call we must answer.  More to come on that later, just pray for our family, and my brother to make some life altering decisions.