~*~*MSPI Moms Weekly Check-In*~*~ 5/19

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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. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share?

 

(It looks like no check in was posted for this week or last week, so I'll post today. I won't be able to respond to any questions until tomorrow night (west coast time), sorry!)

amichelle723

1. How are you doing? How is your LO doing?

We are doing great! I successfully reintroduced peanuts last week and beef this week into my diet. I don't know if DD's gut is just maturing, but ever since she started eating more solids and her poops firmed up we have been mucus free! Next I'll be trying almonds, which I'm really excited about (if she tolerates it)- almond milk, almond dream ice cream, other tree nuts!

2. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share?

Nothing this week

RingOfFire11

1. Well, we have had some set backs since our last check in. The mucous is back with a vengeance (although it never did get completely better). I thought I have brought back nuts successfully and I had removed and added back wheat since I didn't think it made any impact. The diapers now smell awful and she hasn't been sleeping as good. So....I've removed nuts and wheat again. I'm back to being dairy, soy, beef, egg, nut and wheat free. A few days without nuts and wheat and she slept 12 hours. Not sure if that's coincidental or not. My log showed that I hadn't eaten strawberries lately so who freaking knows if that was a problem fruit. I second guess every single thing I eat and it's timing to her poop.

2. For those that have brought foods back, how long without symptoms would you assume it's safe? I give it a week or two but maybe that's not long enough...?

NGilmerGirl

1. How are you doing? How is your LO doing? Doing better this week. We are 2 weeks dairy free and a few days nut free. I decided to cut out nuts since LO was still having some green diapers, but maybe I didn't give the dairy
enough time to leave our systems. Who knows, but I was also eating a lot of almonds, almond butter, and almond milk so I figured it wouldn't hurt to cut that out also. The mucous still seems to be around but seems a lot better and no more blood in his stools. And I bought some dairy free chocolate so my life is good

2. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share? So LO has never had the normal yellow seedy stools. And now they are yellow but very large and super runny. This might sound silly, but is it normal for stool to be super runny like that? He's 10 weeks and since we have cut out dairy and nuts he's gone from 8 stools/day to 1-2/day so makes sense that they would be large but these are like poop explosions! Sorry so much poop talk

amichelle723

@RingofFire11 I've been waiting ~5 days based on DD's prior reactions. She typically will react within a few hours of obvious dairy/soy but in the past has not reacted until 3-4 consecutive days of exposure to baked dairy and possibly nuts (although now I'm questioning the whole nut reaction). I'm still new to re-introducing things though, so maybe I should be waiting longer?

JennOH85

Thanks for posting, @rocknrollfriend‌!
1. Dare I say things are going so, so well for LO?! He's been sleeping better and finally -- after two months of being dairy/soy free and two weeks of being egg free -- his diapers are perfect (stinky thanks to introducing solids, haha, but perfect). I am thankful to the point of tears.

2. AW: I'm always starving but now at least I'm under my pre-pregnancy weight. Silver lining?

JennOH85

@NGilmerGirl‌
No such thing as too much poop talk on the MSPI check in
From about one month on, my LO's poops were almost always runny (like, soak completely into the diaper runny, most of the time) until we starting introducing solids. As long as they weren't mucousy, green or diarrhea-frequent, I figured it was okay.

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@RingOfFire11 Man, that is frustrating. Re: re-intro, my DS always reacted within a day or two when I ate something that bothered him. I don't know if that's typical though. It could that your LO was tolerating a little bit of the nuts and wheat but reached a tipping point.. I don't know. Sorry I can't be of more help!

@NGilmerGirl Definitely no such thing as too much poop talk here. My DS also had large, runny stools a lot of the time. So, so many blow outs.. ugh. I'm not sure if it's MSPI related or just a variation of normal poop. Maybe you could ask on the Babies board?

NGilmerGirl

Another question I thought of.... After dairy being cut out of my diet for a few weeks and still seeing mucous in LO's poop, is soy the next obvious thing to cut out? Just looking to see what y'all have done. Thanks!

JennOH85

@NGilmerGirl‌
I cut out soy about a week after cutting out dairy as I'd read that more often than not babies are sensitive to both because the proteins are so similar. LO was starting to regularly have specks of blood in his poos so I didn't want to waste time. That made a difference, but he still was having some mucous so I cut out eggs and cut back on wheat. I'm only about two months in so I'm no expert but that's been my experience so far.

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NGilmerGirl said:

Another question I thought of.... After dairy being cut out of my diet for a few weeks and still seeing mucous in LO's poop, is soy the next obvious thing to cut out? Just looking to see what y'all have done. Thanks!

Yes soy would be the next most common thing LO would likely be intolerant of. After that it's kind of a guessing game.

krae771

1. How are you doing? How is your LO doing?

I am doing pretty good avoiding dairy products except I had a regression last Sunday and accidentally ate butter (well, it started out accidentally then I just finished eating it). :-(  Otherwise, have been completely off dairy now for 20 days.  I know it's not nearly as hard as all of the ladies that have to avoid multiple foods, but it is hard for me!  LO is doing very well.  His stools have turned much firmer now since I cut out dairy (previously very runny and mucusy).  He is also eating solids now, so they are different and harder to monitor. 

2. Any other burning questions you'd like answered or experiences to share?

Just an experience to share...after telling MIL that LO has MPI, she said that all three of her kids did (well her oldest two did for sure and with my husband the youngest, she just avoided all dairy with him so she didn't really if he did or not).  No one had ever mentioned this before, ever, and my husband didn't even know.  Might have been nice to know because I probably would have started suspecting it before LO was 5 months old!

ohsowell

1. We have had a few set backs over the past few weeks, we will begin to see improvement and then the green mucusy poops come back, he has also been consistently hemeoccult positive. I have been dairy and obvious soy free, but this week I am starting all soy (soy oil and soy leithcin) and gluten free. Hopefully this will help LO, all these set backs are frustrating.

2. What are some quick snack foods you ladies enjoy? I am struggling to find new ideas.

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@ohsowell Quick snack ideas: Larabars or Kit's Organic bars, avocado/chips, hummus/veggie sticks, bean dip or salsa/chips, fruit and peanut butter or sunflower seed butter, almonds and dried fruit. It does get boring - I got so tired of chips! You can look through our check-in archives for more ideas too: mspimoms.blogspot.com. HTH!

amichelle723

@ohsowell I really feel like cutting out soybean oil and soy lecithin is what finally helped us. I had left it in because everything I read said the protein was removed so it wasn't a problem. I was eliminating other foods, possibly unnecessarily, but after about 4 months of residual symptoms, I finally cut out all traces of soy and DD has really improved. Good luck, hope it helps you too!