Moving On....

My life has been crazy hectic lately. I've neglected the internet, and I actually didn't miss it too much, but I do feel strongly about this blog and keeping it updated to help other Moms out there.

Kyle is doing GREAT! We successfully passed milk the second time. He now has all organic, whole milk in his bottles. This makes me happy, and will hopefully ease the financial strain a little from all that formula! He likes cheese (sort of) and does not like yogurt. My daughter used to DEVOUR the YoBaby stuff, but he won't touch it. Still trying.....

Now, we feel a lot more comfortable with things. We've been re-introducing things he had in the past that we thought were problem foods (not a full blown FPIES reaction, but other weird things going on) and he's been doing fine with those too. Like green beans, for example.

This week we are trialing Soy Protein. I will be glad if he passes this one. We are going to do it the same way we did milk, just a little everyday for a week. We are going to use soy milk to trial. I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm starting to feel like we should just go full steam ahead with everything but rice and oats, but I also don't want to jinx things. It's a constant argument in our house about when/how long, etc. to introduce things. I'm always erring on the side of caution, and my husband always wants to just go for it!

I'll be back in a week and let you know how it goes!

Success!

Kyle passed dairy!

I'm a little apprehensive still. The doc gave us the OK on "as much dairy as he wants", but I still feel a reaction could happen. Although, I think it's a slim chance.

Kyle drank 50 ml of whole milk over a one hour period. I convinced the doc that he was OK without an IV. This was a risk I was willing to take because Kyle's FPIES reactions have not been that severe in the past. So, after that, it was just waiting. Lots of waiting.

We stayed in the hospital for 6 LOOOONG hours. But, luckily, we were able to walk around, and that entertained Kyle for most of the day. We ate at the cafeteria for lunch, and he even took an hour and a half nap in the office in his stroller.

We got the OK to trial soy and chicken at home....I feel good about that with the way this trial went. I think it's a little overkill to do it in the office every time. Some kids with more severe reactions need it. And, we will do rice/oats in the office when that time comes after Kyle is 2. I think with milk, it was good to do in the office too since we had no idea what the reaction would be.

Kyle's reaction to rice took several days before vomiting started. I don't think that will be the case with milk, but I'm still going to go slow.

However, I gave him a string cheese for lunch. He gobbled it right up! He loved it!!

We are happy. Yogurt, cheese, and milk...here we come! :)

New Foods Galore

I scheduled a dairy trial for May 18th.

I am sooo excited.
I'm to that point where I almost don't know what to do with his food until we pass milk.
I'm so hopeful, and yet so scared of being disappointed. My gut tells me I won't be. That he will pass dairy, and we will blissfully move on to eating cheese, milk, yogurt, etc. and we can stop buying that nasty formula!! Although, he seems to like it OK. I can't stand the smell of it.
Anyway, Kyle has been doing great lately, and we've been kind of crazy with giving him foods. We give him pretty much any fruits now, and don't even bother trialing them. I hope we don't regret that. He has just never reacted to a fruit, so we keep going with that.
Today I gave him Craisins. He didn't go for those.
Oh, and the ham went great! Although, he only liked the organic from Whole Foods. Go figure?
Also, I gave him a ritz cracker today. This will be the first time he has eaten a significant amount of something with soy oil in it. So, I'm not too worried, but I hope it's OK.
Anyway....I'll keep you posted. We're doing good so far.

Plus, he had his 15 month well visit. He is still about 50% for height and weight. So, that is great! Sometimes it doesn't even feel like he is sick. I hope that continues.

Wheat and Corn and Eggs...Oh MY!

We have had so much success lately! Kyle has been doing so good on his food trials. He is eating cream of wheat like a champ, and corn (mostly in the form of Kix cereal...which is the best snack for him), and eggs. Oh how he was so excited to eat eggs!
The first time, he ate them it was like he was thinking..."Eggs!! Where have you been all my life??"

In a typical day at 13 months old, he is eating so. much. food. Well, at least for a kid with FPIES he is.

Here is a typical day:

Breakfast
1/4 cup of cream of wheat mixed w/favorite jarred fruit, sometimes a little banana on the side

Lunch
Pasta-Usually around 1/4 of a cup smothered in olive oil and salt and pepper. Yum! We just do the plain old white kind b/c the whole wheat and whole grain I used to buy have oats in them. grrrr. And, we also usually do 1/2 an avocado. Can I tell you how happy it makes me that he loves avocados as much as i do?

Dinner
Egg!! And some delicious Honey Whole Wheat Great Harvest Bread. Love that stuff and it only has 5 ingredients. The kid usually eats a whole egg, and a whole piece of bread.

If you had seen this kid at 8 months when he refused to eat pretty much anything, you would think this was as miraculous as I do. But, then again, I'm a little biased! :)