Food Allergies

When I read stories about kids that are unable to eat like "normal" people I always think about Megan.

Here are two stories:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/23/three-year-old-boy-who-cant-eat-anything-is-running-out-of-time-parents-say/

http://www.krdo.com/news/Mia-s-Story-Girl-Can-Only-Eat-5-Foods/-/417220/14817502/-/vqk905/-/index.html

I wonder how Megan would be if we never took her to Dr. Chernoff.  We knew Megan was allergic to two things, for sure - dairy and almonds.  ( I tried giving her almond milk and she broke out in a rash; the dairy caused the coughing and vomiting).  According to Dr. Chernoff she was allergic to everything but bananas and white rice.  So we treated her for tons of stuff...and she got better.  She drank milk with no coughing or vomiting.  Every time we'd treat her she could eat the food after 24 hours with no reaction.  It was amazing. 

But after reading stories like the above, I wonder if that would have been Megan had we not done anything. 

Saggy Baggy

Here is a picture of me when I came home from the hospital after having Megan.

Notice the belly.  Can you see it?  It's a little flab of chub.  Two days people, two days after having her and that is all it was! ( I just realized that I wore jeans home from the hospital! Oh the glory days!)

Now fast forward - 5 weeks after having Kylee - and that is what I STILL look like.  It has to be the most irritating thing for me right now.  Now most of you are probably rolling your eyes because I'm still thin.  But I'm use to, and love being super skinny.  I pride myself on it.  I love my body.  So after 5 weeks and still having the tummy bulge, well, it's rough.  God is trying to humble me in the most devastating way possible.  Everyone who knows both Mark and I will tell you that  Mark is the humble one and I'm the proud one.  Sigh, maybe I should lose the pride, but it's just so hard!

That's Life

The girls put on a puppet show for us.  I thought it was funny so here are the pics:

Kylee has thrush.  We tried the nyastatin but she still had it all over her mouth.  I'm now using gentian violet which stains everything!  I'm so tired of dealing with thrush!  It's such a pain.  I have seriously contemplated not breastfeeding because of all the problems I've had.  The GV really works though.  After 24 hours her mouth looked so much better.  There is just a stubborn white spot on her cheek so I'm going to try grapefruit seed extract and see if that can kick it.