Friday, September 17, 2010

The sleepless nights have returned!

At Peyton's final appt with TCH Immunology the Doc gave me a hard time about giving her Rice milk instead of Soy Milk. She claimed there was just not enough fat in Rice milk for necessary brain development and of course discounted the excessive hormones in Soy milk. Still not ready to move to Soy I decided I would try Goat's milk instead. I had heard mixed results...some say it was great others say they had the same results as with cows milk. I figured it was worth a shot and almost 3 weeks later I am STILL paying for it! It obviously didn't work and it was evident by the end of the 2nd day. She was full of snot and pretty grouchy. I decided to stick with it for a full week just in case it was actually a poorly timed cold but by the end of the week, she was so snotty, waking early, not napping well and becoming increasingly cranky. UGGGG what did I do!!!!

The one good thing is I know FOR SURE she has a milk protein allergy that was causing her to get sick over and over again. The same protein is obviously in Goat's milk because all the same symptoms came flying back. So here I am almost a month later and dealing with a cranky not well rested baby. I briefly tried Soy but she continued to show the same symptoms...the Pedi said he was not at all concerned about the Rice milk and to go back to what works. So...we have been back on Rice milk since Monday but she has still not dried up. I really hope we get back to where we were soon...6am is way too early for ANYONE to be awake!

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