Food Sensitivity Check In

webMistress0609

This check in is for mamas who have had to restrict their diet due to food sensitivities in their LOs or themselves.

The theme for this week is anything goes. I'm posting & running today. I'll be back to check on the thread when Ari goes down tonight.

Any random tips, vents, etc. are also welcome.

webMistress0609

I have good news! Coconut milk seems to be a pass! I'm still skeptical that the slightly restless sleep could be related, but he has absolutely no other symptoms & the sleep seems to be getting better the longer I'm off work. Calm mama = calm baby.

Quazel

I am glad to hear coconut milk may be back!

 I think we are having a backward slide.  The last few times I have had how wing, I seem to really have a hard time getting DS to sleep.  I had them Saturday afternoon.  It was hard to tell on Saturday because we were out and about at a party and running errands so he slept all the time in the car and then wouldn't go to bed at night.  He refused to eat yesterday unless I was nursing and I barely produce during the day so he barely ate anything.  It is so hard to tell if it is that or something else going on.  Grrrr.

 

Harper'smom

hmm no tips or vents today but I do wonder the following sometimes. Warning: Some of these are just paranoias...

1. Was DD "allergic" to dairy in the womb? I wonder if she was miserable in there the whole time as I sucked down quesadillas day in and day out. I don't know if milk proteins cross the placenta or the biology of it all.

2. The first thing I ate after my C-Section was a double dark chocolate Hagen Daz bar. I know it is a silly thing to worry about but I sometimes wonder if I completely over loaded her system right from the start. To be safe, I won't do that again next time.

3. If phantom baby #2 will have allergies as well and if I should limit dairy during future pregnancies and go dairy free for the first few months.

Just stuff I think about...I'm not looking for answers but if you have theories, please share :-)

webMistress0609

@ Harper'smom:

There is a theory that high levels of IgE or IgG in a pregnant woman's blood stream can increase the likelihood of allergy in the LO. When I gave up dairy for Ari, I learned I actually have a mild allergy as well, & I was pigging out on cereal & ice cream all through my pregnancy. I often wonder if there is a link there too. 

 I saw a study recently that stated if you have allergies (food or otherwise) in your family, you should consider eliminating or at least lowering the amount of certain allergenic foods, basically the top 8. I'll be doing that next time around for sure. 

ETA: I'm pretty convinced Ari was sensitive to something in the womb as well. He used to have hiccups constantly in utero, & still did until we started eliminating foods that he has issues with. In fact, hiccups & sleeplessness are the 1st two symptoms for him of a reaction.

Harper'smom

webMistress0609:

@ Harper'smom:

There is a theory that high levels of IgE or IgG in a pregnant woman's blood stream can increase the likelihood of allergy in the LO. When I gave up dairy for Ari, I learned I actually have a mild allergy as well, & I was pigging out on cereal & ice cream all through my pregnancy. I often wonder if there is a link there too. 

 I saw a study recently that stated if you have allergies (food or otherwise) in your family, you should consider eliminating or at least lowering the amount of certain allergenic foods, basically the top 8. I'll be doing that next time around for sure. 

ETA: I'm pretty convinced Ari was sensitive to something in the womb as well. He used to have hiccups constantly in utero, & still did until we started eliminating foods that he has issues with. In fact, hiccups & sleeplessness are the 1st two symptoms for him of a reaction.

 

Thanks for the info. It isn't what I wanted to hear :-) but I guess I will worry about limiting my cheese in take during future pregnancies when the time comes. I think about all of the non coffee/caffeinated chocolate banana whey based shakes I would drink from Starbucks while I was pregnant and just cringe.

blueyez09

I was thinking the same thing, I drank TONs of milk while i was pregnant with nathan (I had horrible AR and milk helped), he came out arching his back and crying for HOURS on end and for some reason when they checked his blood he had off the charts amounts of calcium.

I'm pretty sure next go around I will be dairy/soy free for at least the last month as a precaution.

Quazel

I don't know if this will help you guys feel better or not but this is what my OB said.  I am severely allergic to oranges.  I have a mild allergy to peanuts.  No swelling or anything, I get migraines if I have something peanut related three days within a week.  Anyway, my OB encouraged me to have some peanuts (as I could tolerate) while pregnant to let DS have some very minimal exposure to it.  Then my pedi encouraged me to eat peanut related items as DS got older to also expose him in a very mild manner.  I am too allergic to oranges so that wasn't an option but I did the peanuts.  DS has yet to eat anything with peanut in it so I don't know if it worked but I was encouraged to do it.  All of that being said, it may not help you guys because you know what your LOs are sensitive to at this point and I don't.

DandelionMom

My good news -- both of my daughters' class valentine's day parties were totally gluten-free.  That has never happened to us before.  So nice to have a worry-free holiday! 

BFab11

Yay for coconut milk!!!

I wonder about the same thing in the womb; I'm convinced I overloaded C's system.  At the end of my pregnancy I was drinking 2 gallons of milk a week.  No joke.  That's not counting the chocolate, cheese, ice cream, and other dairy I was consuming.  I was out of control!  

I will definitely be more careful with my diet when I get pregnant again.  It makes me feel so bad because I'm almost positive my crap diet is what did this to C, not to mention my own body.  Now that I'm eating "real" food and not as many preservatives/chemicals/other crap, I feel better, I'm thinner than I have been in years, and I'm sure if I were eating the way I was before, I wouldn't be coping with no sleep nearly as well as I am now, lol.  

I almost feel like I HAD to deal with these issues with C because it's forced me to learn how to cook and how to eat, which I can now teach my kids.  It sucks that it's had to be so drastic, but it was a kick in the pants that I needed for sure. 

erinkate23

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Hi, I'm new.

 

I'm on Day #1 of corn, wheat, dairy, soy and egg free.  I feel like my whole world has been sort of turned upside down...it's very strange.  No more stopping at Starbucks, no more anything from the vending machine, that's for sure.  I had no idea how involved this was going to be, or what you ladies have been going through.  It's weird having a Valentine's without chocolate.

Ultimately, it's very eye-opening.  I didn't realize what was in the foods I was eating.  This is making me evaluate the way I look at food in general, what I choose to put in my body.  I feel like I'm going to come away from this very much changed.