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~*~*MSPI Moms Weekly Check-In*~*~ 4/21
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~*~*MSPI Moms Weekly Check-In*~*~
Welcome! This is a check-in for moms who are/were on a dairy free and/or soy free diet due to their LO's intolerance. The check-ins will be posted every Monday morning on the Breastfeeding board and XP'd to the Food Allergy board. If you'd like to join the group, just post an intro here and dive in! To check out the archive of our previous check-ins, please see the MSPI Moms Blog (www.mspimoms.blogspot.com).
1. How are you doing? How is your LO doing?
2. Have you struggled with keeping your supply up while on the MSPI diet? What are some good calorie-dense foods you've found you can eat?
3. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share?
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Re: ~*~*MSPI Moms Weekly Check-In*~*~ 4/21
1. How are you doing? How is your LO doing? We are both good. I have an appt with the GI this week, and I am excited to hopefully get some questions answered.
2. Have you struggled with keeping your supply up while on the MSPI diet? What are some good calorie-dense foods you've found you can eat? I did/do eat a ton of junk. LO is four months this week, and so I will stop worrying so much about keeping it up. I eat a ton of dark chocolate, avocados, and chips.
3. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share? Not this week.
2. My supply is fine. I'm even pumping better than I used to do. Costco sells a salsa like product called cowboy caviar. Its made up of different beans. I use it as salsa or toss with pasta to make a pasta salad.
2. I eat Stacy's pita chips and guacamole. My supply has been ok, but sometimes I'm having a hard time "feeling full". I have been eating a ton of roasted veggies with rice- I love them!
3. Lo is extremely sensitive to soy- and reacts to all beans, hummus, cauliflower, etc. anyone else have this?
Hope everyone has a good week!
1. How are you doing? How is your LO doing? We are doing good. DD2 is still recovering skin wise from my attempt to bring eggs back. I brought peanuts in last week and haven't seen any major change to her comfort or diapers. Yay! Now to try out almonds. Poops are still mucousy but I really believe we've gotten as close to normal as we're going to get in that department. So, we are now dairy, soy, egg and beef free.
2. Have you struggled with keeping your supply up while on the MSPI diet? What are some good calorie-dense foods you've found you can eat? No supply dip yet. I'm pretty excited to be working nuts into my diet. The only thing that makes me feel full these days is rice pasta - definitely dense, lol.
3. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share? When it's time to experiment with soy (I'm not ready yet), how do I do that? Eat something with soy lecithin? I guess I've been careful to remove it that I'm not sure the best/easiest way to try it out, when it's time.
With DD1 who was MSPI I started introducing food at 6 months with mostly no problems. She got hives twice (after she had outgrown MSPI) from eating out at restaurants, but we never figured out what actually caused them. She is 2.5 now, and the only thing we have purposely stayed away from is shell fish.
Now with DD2 we are dairy, soy, egg and wheat free. DD2 is 4 months. Today at the GI I told him about what happened when I tried a small amount of wheat (while I was nursing her she had a BM, and then 10 minutes later again, and then 10 minutes later again with all blood stringing through it) and he said that for that kind of reaction to happen is rare. I find it odd because it was the most amount of blood I had ever seen in her diaper, and it was such a small amount. Anyways he said he wanted to stress how important it is to start introducing foods when she is ready because of working those muscles etc...and then he commented a few times about how oral she is (her hands are always in her mouth) and how that is a sign for her being ready. With DD1 I waited until 6 months because with the MSPI I was just a bit more nervous to introduce foods. My plan had been to do the same for DD2, but now I am second guessing myself. I am just nervous of her having more reactions to foods, but then again I don't want to hold her back if she is ready for solids. Ughh. What did you guys do? Did you wait until 6 months even if you thought your child was ready before?
1. This week was going pretty well, but then today LO had more bright red blood in his poo. I'm so frustrated! I've been dairy and soy free for about four weeks. UGH! I hate this so much. LO is still sleeping fine and acting like his normal happy self but I still feel like this isn't right. He shouldn't have blood in his stool like this.
2. Luckily my supply has been consistent throughout this period.
3. I'm debating between cutting out eggs next or going full elimination and starting from scratch. DH still doesn't believe that LO has an intolerance but that I'm just nuts, which makes this even more difficult. I'm just feeling so disheartened.
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@caloneis That is a bummer. Did the pedi check for anal fissures? If he just has an irritated bum that can get red blood into a diaper also. You might try peanuts next (rather than all nuts) if it seems like the blood might be correlated with that. Anecdotally it seems like it can take 1 to 2 days to see a reaction in LO from something you ate. I hope things get better for you soon! I did have to avoid coconut but it just seemed to give him diaper rash (and me plugged ducts, ugh), not blood or mucous.
@JennOH85 Ugh, that is frustrating! It is so hard when you don't have supportive people around you too. You are not nuts! Though it can often feel that way when dealing with food intolerances.
It is up to you what you do next, but I would recommend trying eggs next rather than TED, just because a TED is very hard, and if your LO is doing relatively ok except for the poop it might not be worth the difficulty.
@MissusPearson I'm assuming you looked into the possibility of oversupply? That, especially together with a forceful letdown, can cause discomfort for LO while nursing and the green mucousy poop. I think that also often causes frothy poop. That being said, it does seem like the MSPI symptoms run the gamut from lots of different ones to just a few. Also for my DS, the symptoms varied over time. He didn't have any rash issues when he was a little baby, that was more when he was 9-15 mo. So I think it really varies from kid to kid, food to food, and over time!
GL to everyone!!
"there is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world"
BFP #2 2.27.13 EDD 11.8.13 Grow, baby, grow!
My Ovulation Chart
~ all ALers welcome ~