Fussy girl and diet changes
Jun. 25th, 2007 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyRight now I have an adorable, freshly-bathed little girl in my lap, wearing a onesie that says "My daddy is a geek", dozing off after a nursing. Awww. I love nuzzling clean baby hair.
The last several nights have been difficult. She'll fall asleep in my arms (mostly vertically) downstairs in the evening, but getting her upstairs and asleep in the bed is much harder. We go through multiple cycles of changing, nursing, burping, with her getting fussier, and often crying even during nursing. Last night I know she and I were up past 3:30 am, I'm not sure how much past.
So, I think it's time to remember what I learned from Brendan's colic, and give that a try. Time to remove the most common colic-causing foods from my diet. Dairy, chicken, and chocolate. All of which I had yesterday evening, yes.
I am NOT looking forward to this. This is going to leave me not a lot to eat. Dairy will be especially hard to get out, and chocolate will be especially painful. (The only downside of chicken is losing those leftovers in the fridge from last night's dinner.) None of the cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt...
But if it works, that would be good
The last several nights have been difficult. She'll fall asleep in my arms (mostly vertically) downstairs in the evening, but getting her upstairs and asleep in the bed is much harder. We go through multiple cycles of changing, nursing, burping, with her getting fussier, and often crying even during nursing. Last night I know she and I were up past 3:30 am, I'm not sure how much past.
So, I think it's time to remember what I learned from Brendan's colic, and give that a try. Time to remove the most common colic-causing foods from my diet. Dairy, chicken, and chocolate. All of which I had yesterday evening, yes.
I am NOT looking forward to this. This is going to leave me not a lot to eat. Dairy will be especially hard to get out, and chocolate will be especially painful. (The only downside of chicken is losing those leftovers in the fridge from last night's dinner.) None of the cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt...
But if it works, that would be good
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Date: 2007-06-25 09:05 pm (UTC)For Dairy elimination, check out Goat's milk -- Walmart even carries it... granted, at $3 for a half-gallon, i think. And you can get it in the can, in the baking-goods aisle. Soymilk has improved in taste, lately, too.
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Date: 2007-06-27 06:27 pm (UTC)In general I like broccoli - but during this last pregnancy, not so much. Early on I found out I didn't even want to smell it. I haven't gotten back around to having any yet.
It isn't so much milk per se that's the problem. I do not drink milk. I did recently start having milk with cereal again, I might get soymilk for that. But it's all the OTHER stuff - cooking with milk and butter, having cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, cream cheese. And dairy's in EVERYTHING these days! I don't even like sandwiches without margarine, so now I need to go find a dairy-free margarine...