Hello? Is This Thing On? March 1, 2008
Yeah, I know. I suck. I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I last posted.
Ok, so last time I managed to sit down and write a post Adam had had his second endoscopy and was suffering from a GI reaction to his 12 month vaxes. His biopsies from the endoscopy all came back normal, so that was wonderful news. His reaction continued for 3 weeks when I decided to cut out pork from my diet since I knew that his stomach virus a few months back caused him to start reacting to the chicken in my diet.
Since pork was the last source of protein in my diet it sucked to go without it, but it didn’t take too long before we found out that that was what was happening. I added it back in and back came the reaction, so no more pork. Obviously I had to get some sort of protein back in my diet, so I tried salmon and thankfully that worked out ok. There’s variety with pork but not so much with salmon, so I’m already getting tired of it. You do what ya have to do, though.
With that situation all wrapped up it was time again to face our big hurdle, solid food. It’s definitely been an uphill battle. It seems like the endoscopy might have helped the pylorus issue, but Adam’s been reacting to most of the foods we’ve tried. He finally just got to feeling so badly that he started refusing to eat solids at all, so we’re taking a break now so his little system can calm down.
It breaks my heart to see him hurting. I wish there was more I could do. We’ll start again when he’s feeling better, because he really does need to have more than breastmilk at this point, but I know that it’s going to be a rough road. We’ve got all of the reaction stuff to deal with, plus Adam’s got some major texture issues from us having to wait so long to feed him solid food. It’s definitely not going to be an overnight jump from exclusively breastfed to eating three square meals a day.
Let’s see. What else has been going on since I last posted? Adam turned 13 months a few weeks back. He took his first steps a little over a week ago. Now, that was exciting stuff. We’re also stuck in the middle of the 2-1 nap transition which is not so exciting.
I have to admit I’ve been feeling overwhelmed the past couple of weeks. The diet, the lack of sleep, the frustrations with Adam’s poor little tummy and the effect it has on him, well, it just all adds up.
Despite all of that, though, I am immensely enjoying watching my son grow up. He amazes me. He’s such a energetic, fun loving little guy. I just hope that I’m able to deal with all of the stuff that’s going on in his life the best way possible so that I can be the kind of mom that he deserves.
