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[andaluza]

Sol, it's kind of more like what haven't I eliminated... I'll give the long-winded account since I have 2 hands free at the moment :)

I ate a pescatarian diet before, kind of like lacto-ovo vegetarian plus fish and seafood. When I had to go on antibiotics the first week after M's birth, I went overboard with yogurt, kefir, etc. to avoid getting thrush and started noticing M getting fussier. Since I had read about milk protein allergy, I went off milk after I finished the antibiotics, although I admit I wasn't vigilant about it at first. Anyway, then M started getting a rash all over. My parents were here at the time and they convinced me it was heat rash, but we ended up going to the pediatrician after they left and he diagnosed it as eczema and suggested that a food sensitivity/allergy to something I'd been consuming could have caused it. So I then decided to do away with soy, peanuts, almonds (I had been drinking almond milk and related items), and seafood (also had been having a good amount of that).Then the next week he started getting a very very small amount of blood in his stools (and his stools had changed from yellow seedy to more green mucousy), so I kept eliminating things: oats and eggs, mainly. The eczema is gone except in a few body creases now, but he still gets blood from time to time. We've since been to a pediatric gastro specialist and he said that he's not concerned with the amount of blood and is very pleased with M's health, so he wants me to keep exclusively breastfeeding. He said he'll grow out of the allergy/sensitivity and he was more concerned with me getting good nutrition than being super strict about my diet based on the amount of blood he was seeing. I've decided I'll reintroduce things slowly once I have a week without any blood.

But, anyway, I think the most interesting side effect of all of this has been noticing how happy and calm M is (and also realizing how far non-dairy/soy, etc. vegan food has come since I was vegan in h.s.).

[monkeyscience]

I'd love to see recipes/meal plans for what you're eating... I'm having a hard time thinking of things that meet those requirements! I would like Baby Bird to be less gassy/fussy, though some of it is probably related to his tongue issues.

[andaluza]

For protein I eat a lot of lentils, quinoa, vegan quorn burgers, field roast 'sausages,' of course fish as I mentioned (mostly salmon, tilapia), brown rice in different forms, nutritional yeast sprinkled here and there (baked potatoes, vegan mac n cheese we find at Target) and also things that have a moderate amount of protein (like potatoes, garbanzos, mushrooms, other veggies). I have been trying not to overdo gluten, but Barilla plus pasta has a good amount of protein and I love Annies or Trader Joe's cheeseless veggie pizzas (I can add some of the veggie sausage and vegan rice cheese).

I can pretty much manage to make relatively quick meals for myself that have 2 servings, so it's not super time intensive. There's a good amount of stuff from Trader Joe's that I can eat, plus we have a lot of Whole foods and natural grocers in this area, which is all a different case from when I was vegan in my teens. Plus, the amount of acceptance allergy sufferers have gotten has made so many more interesting products available. Like coconut milk creamers I use in tea, coconut milk yogurt and ice cream. Having been vegan for about 5 years without such 'luxuries' certainly helps, although it's harder in some ways eliminating soy (annoyingly in sooo many things and why I am eating Udi's gluten free bread which doesn't have milk or soybean oil). I admit, I don't have to cook for a whole family and a lot of times if I'm with the baby dh is able to follow my spoken recipes and whip me up something nutritious. 

The pediatrician yesterday said he didn't think eggs were a very likely culprit, although the specialist we saw last week said they could be, but going back to eggs would make things easier. I have had egg in things like Udi's bread, which I don't eat a ton of, so my system isn't clear of it.

We'll be alone for Thanksgiving, but the holidays in Spain are going to be pretty hard, I think, if I haven't reintroduced much by then. I already miss pumpkin pie, though! I had a pancake with pumpkin today as a topping, mixed with some maple syrup, cinnamon, rice milk and non-butter spread that was really good. It takes a little creativity and some imagination and open-mindedness when eating. Dh is not interested in trying any of this stuff and when I recommended the coconut yogurt to my mom (who is lactose intolerant but eats a lot of yogurt) she complained that it tasted like paste 

[Veritas Vitae]

Quinn was 7lbs9oz at birth and 11lbs9oz at two months, which is 52%.

Surprisingly she was only 45% for height (22.5"), however, she seems so long to me compared to other babies, I guess because she keeps her legs straight most of the time.  They measured her head at 15", which is 40%, but I think the tech measured it wrong because she was moving, it looked like 14 1/2" to me, then she jerked her head.  She had a 13" head at birth, which is 10%.

[LilyTiger]

Veritas, Piper had a super small head at birth too and then it expanded gigantically.  My doc said the head circumference measurements are really off at birth because of all the molding going on (especially with vaginal birth babies).  This was greatly reassuring to this mother of a pinhead.

[Veritas Vitae]

Lily, did Piper have any cone-head action going on? Quinn's was quite round and not coney, so I wondered if she just had symmetrical molding.

[iixivboots]

Have you guys noticed that other babies look weird in comparison to your baby? Lyle has a giant 95+ percentile head, and i met another mom with a 14# 12 week old and his head was ridiculously tiny, imho! :)

[monkeyscience]

VV - Q is finally as long as Baby Bird was when he was born! And incidentally, her pictures remind me a lot of my LO...I did a double take the first time you posted one. Which of course means she is gorgeous.

[LilyTiger]

VV, for a brief period (like an hour) Piper's head looked like the alien's head in the Alien movies.  All stuck out in back.  Then it just morphed to perfectly round.  I have no idea what that was all about.  Very weird.

And yes, Boots, other people's babies look weird to me.  Especially older babies.  My best friend has a 1 year old with a 90th percentile head and he looks monstrously huge to me (and weird).  Until Piper was born, he was the standard of baby beauty for me, so it's interesting how quickly that changed. 

[Justmee]

This one is following the pattern of my others, ie, tiny.

He was born 8lbs, 6oz.

I am not sure what he went down to after the surgery, I think the lowest he got to was around 7lbs, 4oz. He was 13lbs 1oz yesterday, and he turns 3 months old tomorrow.