God isn’t surprised, shocked, or scared!

 

Our God is big and good! He knows the hairs on each one of our heads. He did form us in the womb after all. He loves, and cares for us deeply. How funny it is that we tend to forget this sometimes. I sure do. When Kaylee first started having belly troubles I was afraid. Afraid of what it might be. My worst fear was an allergy. I had read on Baby Center and various other baby sites about what to look for and how to treat allergies. I didn’t want Kaylee to be allergic for sure, but there was also a little bit of selfishness along with that wish. You see, I am breastfeeding and an allergy means altering MY diet. I didn’t want to give up cheese. (How Dumb!)

Like I said, Kaylee has been having belly troubles. She started out as the sweetest, most laid back baby in the world (She still is, but let me explain.) Slowly around three and a half weeks she started getting fussier. Not to the point to where she was inconsolable,  but she would make these deeply sad faces, curl her legs up, and she was starting to spit up more.  Once she even spit up so bad it went out of her crib and onto the floor. I guess you would call it vomiting. We called the doctor about this thinking it was reflux. The doctor told us to hold her upright for 30 min after each feeding and to elevate her bed. We did these things and lo and behold the spitting up got better. But Kaylee didn’t. She still was having belly trouble and it was getting worse. We started to notice her poop was starting to have mucus in it and then… I saw it.. Specks of blood.  The first time it was in the middle of the night, and I thought that maybe I had just imagined it, but then a few days later I saw it again and showed it to Jon. We both agreed that she needed to go to the doctor. It was a Saturday and we went and saw a very nice doctor that is in the sister practice to the one we go to. He told me to go off of egg, soy, nuts, and milk on a first 4 ingredient basis. So if those weren’t in the first four, I could eat it. We did this for a few days and Kaylee had a day where she seemed like it was working, but it was short lived. The day after she turned 6 weeks old we took her to get her shots and to talk about the belly troubles to her doctor. She took a look at her stool and said that I needed to go off Dairy (Milk Protein) and Soy and not just the first 4 ingredients, I needed to go “hard core”. I left with a list of ingredients to stay away from and the thought of WHAT CAN I EAT??? You see I already knew just about EVERYTHING has soy in it from my 5 day trial period, and a lot of things have milk. Did you know that even some gum has dairy in it? And lots have soy.

But like I said, God is good! He put us in a time when alternatives are available and near a grocery where we can get them. Last night, we took a little trip to Greenlife. We found all kinds of things that were Soy and Milk free! Look!

 

I am so excited about all of these things. What is most exciting is that if Kaylee’s allergies don’t go away (which please pray with us that they do!) I will be able to cook and make her things that are yummy that meet her needs.

So far I have tried the coconut milk, the rice milk, the earth balance “butter” , the local bread, the “ice cream”, the rice cheese, and the chocolate chips! They are all surprisingly good. Do they taste exactly like the originals, no, but will they help my baby girl feel better, hopefully!

I am going to start blogging some about these different products because when I Googled products that are dairy free and soy free, NOTHING came up. I could find some dairy free that would have soy, and some soy free that would have dairy, so I am hoping that the next person who is told this news can Google it and find our page.

Next post will be about the yummy Soy and Dairy free grilled cheese sandwich Jon made for me at lunch today. It was complete with Lay’s  plain potato chips! :)

God is good and He knows what is causing Kaylee’s belly to hurt. He can heal her and make her well. Please pray for that with us! We love the pieces out of her, but know the Lord loves her more!