Day 3 of TED, 2 Month checkup and shots funny

Today, was Day 3 of the diet. Not as bad as I thought it would be. Turkey Bacon for breakfast. Turkey Burgers and Rice for lunch. Apple Pear for a snack. Chicken Wings and Sweet Potato for dinner. Yummy!

Also, we had Emma's 2 month checkup today. She weighed 12lbs. 2oz., 22.5 inches long. Her umbilical hernia is minor and should heal up on its own. And the hemangioma shouldn't be a problem. However, when I arrived I told the nurse that we would not be doing vaccines (I did this so that she wouldn't prepare them) We decided to do a delayed immunization schedule (I just haven't decided how delayed yet). So, the pediatrician asked me what we were doing about vaccines and I said we weren't doing them today, especially with her having allergy issues. He told me that vaccines wouldn't really interfere or cause any other allergy issues...huh?

Then, after the long song and dance about how good they are for her now, as well as later. That he would be more than happy to do them in a month so that she could resume the normal schedule at 4 months. Ha ha! Okay, is that like running an ad that says "Bring your baby in and let us stab her in the legs multiple times and then she will be irritable for days". Umm, no thanks. Don't get me wrong, I have my reasons for not vaccinating now. We aren't doing daycare. The whole family is vaccinated and she is not around anyone who is not vaccinated. We will do immunizations, just not now.

All in all, a very good week. A bummer that I have to go to work tomorrows - 2 days this weekend. Boo! But, I have to do it so I might as well accept it.

Moving on to Day 4!

Day 2 of TED

Well, hmm as one who loves food I was not excited about today's menu. But first, let me recap on yesterday's menu.

Breakfast - Apple pear

Lunch - Two turkey burgers fried in a nonstick pan with steak seasoning. At the end, when they are done, I put in about 2 tbsp of olive oil to moisten up the burgers and give me something to put over the rice. I made 1 1/2 servings of rice.

Snack - Butternut squash baby food (tasted like spaghetti sauce) and a pear

Dinner - 3 turkey wings (grilled), a sweet potato with salt & pepper (would have preferred cinnamon butter) and a squash concoction (3 yellow squash, 1 zuccini (boiled) strained water, mashed, add: 1/2 cup rice milk, salt/pepper, 1 tbsp minced onion, 1 tbsp olive oil - place back on heat, stir well and serve warm.

I fed this to the whole family. It was pretty good, I used a lil too much pepper.

Dessert - baked pear

Day one success.


Day two

I would rather have anything but the above. I want dairy and lots of it, but I would settle for chocolate of any shape or form. But then I looked at my little baby person and her rash was better and her nose wasn't congested. Okay, I do this for another day.

Our power was out for most of the morning, due to the storm that rolled thru in the night.

Breakfast - Pear Juice

Snack - 6 turkey sausages (I was starving by this time.)

Lunch - 2 turkey burgers with rice.

Snack - Pear

Dinner - I think I'm gonna have some more turkey wings and maybe tonight I will make hash browns.

Moving on to day 3, the worst day of any new diet. Pray I make it thru. I will though cuz all I have to do is look at her little face.

Dieting of any kind sucks. Oh and I have had horrible, I mean really stinky horrible gas all day (and so has she).

TED starts today

Due to the possibility of a Milk Protein allergy and now a possible peanut allergy, we are doing the total elimination diet. Day 1 - Turkey, Rice, Butternut squash and Pears. 30 days of this - so excited.

First night back to work

Let's just say that it did not go the way i planned. It started at 7 am - normal day except for haul ass to finish 4th grade science project for ODD. Baby was super gassy due to a strong dislike to fenugreek. She cluster fed all thru the day and in between I worked on the science project. Finished that at 5:30 pm and started to try and get ready for work. My original plan was to work 11p - 7a and start on a Sunday because it would be slower. I went in at 9:40 cuz I got the baby down at 7.

We worked all night! Almost 9 hours, no lunch, one pumping session, no nap = dead dog butt tired. I ended up using the pump at work - this thing is a dinosaur. However, it was quicker for me to use that than set mine up and I had no time. I wasn't sure how to adjust the suction and could hear no change when turning the dial....the person that pumped before me...let's just say they had nipples of steel.

I went 6 hours between pumpings and expressed 6.5 oz. Then, I came home after being up 24+ hours and tried to feed Emma. She ate on the right and I fell asleep. She ate on the left and I pumped the right and got another 3 oz. I was so tired. I tried to take her to bed with me, both of us just panties and she fussed. 4 hours later, I asked my husband to feed her so I could conch out. I ended up swaddling her and out we both went down for a four hour nap. Got up - boobs full and worried about my first night back to work causing a decrease in milk production.

Fenugreek is not Emma's friend

She wouldn't lay down for a nap all day yesterday and then last night, every time I tried to put her to bed - she would wake up and fuss. I took her to bed with me and cuddled her and gave her a paci and we slept. We slept 4 hours. Fed and went back to bed for 3 hours. She is horribly, painfully gassy. No more fenugreek for us.

Growth Spurt

We went to the mountains for the weekend (Friday - Sunday) and Emma did great. In fact, she was on a better schedule traveling than she is at home. She would eat every 4 hours and she was asleep by 8:30pm and slept til 1:30am and then down again for another 3 hours. It was great! Then we came home and the growth spurt began. She ate every hour on the hour all Monday and then Monday night. Tuesday, she ate every 2 hours and today...we are all over the place. In the night, she ate every 2 hours. I haven't had more than an hour break between feeds this morning. So tired!

She was 8 weeks old Tuesday - so we are hitting the 9 week growth spurt a little early. Also, because I am extremely self-conscious and doubt myself all the time about milk production (especially during cluster feeding), I am trying a new herbal supplement. We will see how this one works. Motherlove was great, just a lil expensive for a 2 oz. bottle.

I ordered a 4 oz. bottle of the new stuff for the same price. Slightly different ingredients. It's from Kerry Herbals Nursing Mother Blend.

Reassurance

We went to our boobie support group today at the hospital. But, let me back up a little. Emma decided to cluster feed last night and we were having so much fun playing with her that we over-stimulated her and then she was over-tired. So, at 11pm - she still wanted to eat. Ugh! I was tired. So, I thawed a bottle of breast milk and fed her that - she took about 3.5 oz. and she slept for 5 hours. 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep, just what I needed! So, she woke up and ate on the right breast for 15 minutes and went back to sleep. She got up at 7am and ate on the left breast for 30 minutes, while I pumped the right and then the left. I got 3.5 oz.

At 10:30, she ate again. So, let the reassurance begin. I wanted to see how much refilled after pumping. She ate 116cc - so almost 4oz. She weighed 10lbs 4oz. today! She gained a lb. this week - so it is working. So happy!