New Foods And Allergic to Peanut Butter

Hello my baby Lina<3,

With your allergies to soy products, Mommy is always concern that you will have a reaction to the soy milk that you are drinking.  You do not drink more than 20oz of the soy milk.  Since you drink soy milk, we do not add any more soy products to your diet, after learning from a mistake.

Daddy and I decide that it was time to try other milks.  After extensive research about the different types of milk in the market, it was hard to decide where to start.  We always believe that regular cow's milk is a no go.  There are pros and cons to everything. 

While at Whole Food supermarket, we decide that it was time to try almond milk, unsweetened, and organic.  The vitamin content is sufficient as well as the calcium level.  You have been drinking it once a day for a week now.  At first, it was probably weird to your taste buds, because it was new, and you drank it slower.   So far, you are enjoying, and there are no allergic reactions.

Mommy thought it was a good time for you to try peanut butter as well.  Mommy was hoping to find a different alternative to lunch.  But unfortunately after a couple of spoonful, and an hour later, you threw it up.  An allergic reaction to the peanut butter.  You vomited it all.  My poor baby, it was terrible to see you so uneasy from the peanut butter.  We will not be trying that any time soon.

We tried yogurt with coconut milk.  You had allergic reaction to organic yogurt.  You do not like yogurt so much.  I am hoping that it will grow on you.  We will see, it has only been a three days.

We will be trying to coconut milk soon, and I hope that you will like it.

I love you baby. Muah

Gluten Free Foods

To My Lina<3,

We have been trying gluten free foods for the last few weeks.  So far, it is good for your skin and does not make your symptoms of eczema worst.  You enjoy it very much, and cannot tell the difference.

The products that we are trying are:
1. Happy Baby organic puffs, gluten free.  We have tried all the favors except for purple carrot and blueberry.  Yes, when I said we, I meant you tried it, and Mommy tried it as well.  Whatever goes into your mouth, Mommy make sure that I try it too.  These puffs are go to snacks.  When you know it is snack time, you go to cabinets where the puffs are stored and point to it and tell Mommy that is the snack you want to eat.  These are easy to find in supermarkets, Babies R Us, WalMart, and Target, just to name a few.

2.  Rice Krispies Gluten Free Cereal from Kelloggs.  I was so glad that I found these in the supermarket.  Although it is not organic, I thought you should try it, to see if gluten free is better for your skin.  This are a good alternative for breakfast, and for snack time.  You do not like it so much but will eat it.

3. Pasta, Gluten free TruRoots fusilli pasta, gluten free and elbows pasta, gluten free.  You enjoy eating these pastas.  You enjoyed picking the pasta with your hands and eating it with your fingers.

4. Glutino blueberry breakfast bars, gluten free; pretzel twists, gluten free; and pretzel sticks, gluten free.  These snacks you love.  Mommy needs to be extra careful about the pretzels, only give you a small piece at a time.  The blueberry breakfast bar, you love but I tried to not to give it to you so often, since the sugar content is high.

5. ArrowHead Mill organic sprouted corn flakes: Mommy was so glad to find this.  It is a nice alternative for breakfast.  You like it, but not too often.

6. Bread, gluten free as well.  It was hard to find this bread, but so glad that I found it.  It is a gluten free, raisin cinnamon bread (I do not recall the brand, once I do, I will update).  You love to eat bread.  I found this in Whole Food supermarket.  We are also trying gluten free waffles, but you do not like it so much after one try.

Gluten free products are doing well for you skin.  The redness of  your cheeks does not appear as often.  These gluten free products were fairly decent in price except for the bread.  We will try to stay as gluten free as possible.

I love you, Lina<3.  I hope that you continue to eat everything that Mommy gives you.

Frantically Scratching, Allergic to Eggs?

Today had been a nightmare, from 11:30am to 1pm. It has been non stop scratching. If Mommy was not holding your hands, (even though you had Scratch Me Not Mittens on) you scratched.
After your nap, you were scratching you a storm. At first, Mommy thought that it was because you had pooped but after cleaning you up, you were still scratching. It was so crazy, watching you scratching, and seeing that you how uncomfortable you were in your own skin. You probably knew how extremely difficult it was to moisturize you and put your diaper back on. Ahh, I am sorry Mommy can not do more to help you. Seeing you scratch in a frenzy (even after the diaper change), Mommy decided to wash you up with Cetaphil Restordam Body Wash. Yet it did not make you feel better nor did it make you stop scratching. You were still going crazy with the scratching, Mommy went crazy with the "stop scratching", "ahh", "stop!!" and tried to distract you as much as possible when trying to moisturize you after the bath. Mommy had you aired out your body after the bath, in hopes of trying to make you feel better and less itchy. Nope, you had scratched so much that your skin on your thighs and diaper area were beet red, inflamed, irritated, bumpy, and hot! Mommy put ice on those areas hoping to make it feel better, and it did for a little while before you started scratching again. On your skin, hydrocortisone cream (1%), unpetroleum jelly (an organic petroleum jelly like) and Cetaphil Restordam Body lotion were applied.
Mommy was wondering what was the cause of all this sudden scratching. Ah-ha you had tried some tiny bits of eggs earlier (hormone free eggs), could that be the reason for all the scratching?  Not sure of the reason but you were still scratching. After the bath, and diaper changed, Mommy hoped that putting you in the play area, it would distract you from all the scratching, but it did not. Mommy kept your mittens on but you still scratched. The way you scratched is scary, you not only scratch but you pinched, grabbed a chunk of skin and pull which sounded painful especially as you pulled your skin. Your feet even helped you scratch, scratched your legs, while your hands scratched your upper body, such coordination, lol
You even had a visitor (a cousin) stopped by and still it was not distracting enough. Scratched a lot. Took off your pants, hoping the cool air might help relieved your skin (with a visitor in the house too, lol). When that did not work well, Mommy applied baby cornstarch on your legs. It did distracted a little bit, you also warmed up to your cousin, and interacted and played with her. Daddy could not distract you from scratching, and could not make you stop scratching. Drinking water helped a little as well, you drank from Daddy's glass. All your toys were not enough to distract you from scratching either. After a visit from your cousin, Lina<3 and I went for a walk and that helped a lot. You did not scratch at all during the entire walk. When we got home, your scratching was a  minimum. I wish I could say that the scratching had stopped.
I think you are allergic to eggs, which lead to the frantic scratching, scratching lead to the raised bumps, redness on your skin, which made you even itchier.  This is the worst scratching/itchiness/allergic reaction ever. If you are allergic to eggs, it will be your third allergic reaction to foods (first, organic pear, second, organic yogurt).
Anyhow, Mommy changed your clothes three times during this ordeal, changed your crib sheet, disinfectant your crib, disinfectant your toys that stay on the crib.