Slow and Steady

Over the past few weeks, we decided to bite the bullet, conquer our fears, and with a lot of prayer and the support of some amazing mamas, start D on a rotation of broths! Boy oh boy, has this been an adventure. So far, D has had each of 5 different broths about 3 times. He has not had any FPIES reactions, but I wouldn't say it's been easy, and we have a ways to go. He gets Beef, Elk, Salmon, Buffalo, and Snapper in rotation, every other day. We are currently giving him 1 1/2 tsp by medicine syringe because he still refuses a bottle and just wants to splash the broth around when given a spoon. I'm sure the taste is definitely not something he enjoys much either. When you're used to sweet, creamy breastmilk, why would you want salty or fishy or gamey tasting broth?? Next rotation we up it to 3 tsp every other day. He seems to be tolerating them pretty well, but still has some crankiness, restless nights, gas, and mucousy poops, but he's not in pain from these symptoms, and all of them are usually related to die off. They don't really concern me because it's just his body doing what it's supposed to, healing itself. God created our bodies to heal and by giving him these nutrient rich, gelatin filled, good fat containing broths, D's gut is healing!

Please keep prayers coming for Daniel's healing gut! We are on the right track here and I thank God daily for leading me to GAPS to not only heal my son, but to heal my whole family also!

An FPIES Birthday

 

Celebrations and holidays can be very hard on FPIES families and GAPS families because they are often filled with high fructose corn syrup, sugar, grains, and many of the common FPIES trigger foods. Our culture tends to place the focus on food as opposed to the actual event. Although I did have food at Daniel's birthday party for the adults, there were only grandparents and an uncle in attendance, so it was very low key. We focused on watching Daniel open presents, he had a present cake, and blew out a candle after we sang "Happy Birthday."

He seemed to have an amazing time and slept so well that night from all of the extra attention and excitement! He'll never know that his party was "not normal" and he didn't even realize that he was "missing out" on the smashing of the cake experience. He loves his Mama milk and still doesn't show a major interest in food. It saddens me when I hear mama's saying their doctors told them that their babies NEED more than just breastmilk to grow and develop. I'm not a doctor of course, but I have a healthy, smart, energetic little boy who is thriving at the age of 12 months on breastmilk alone! What more could I ask for?!