Allergies

We took Liberty to the Allergist and found out the things she is allergic to: cow's milk, egg, peanut, tomato, wheat, soybean.  On a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being highly allergic, soybean was 3, tomato was 2, and milk, egg, and peanut were 5.

Now we read ingredients carefully before giving her food.  For milk she is supposed to drink almond milk.  She does not enjoy it but during the day I do not nurse, so that is the only thing she is offered.  She does like this flavored water that Jonathan drinks.  It is red powder you pour into water, so it tastes like fruit punch, but unlike koolaid it does not have sugar.

For breakfast now she will eat Van's Blueberry Eggos that are gluten and wheat free.  We tear them apart and she eats them.  It is so helpful with her feeding herself.  We still give a little strawberry banana baby food and Baby Natural's organic puffs because she will not eat just cut up banana or apple so far.

For lunch she has Tyson chicken nuggets.  We tear these up bite size and she can feed herself.  With each new food we read ingredients but still have Benadryl ready in case she has a reaction.  She was also prescribed an Epi-Pen.  If she has a major reaction we have to push the pen into her thigh, a shot releases medicine, and that calms her body down until we get to the ER.  Of course we pray we never have to use it. So far she can have Whataburger french fries (not cooked in peanut oil) and she gobbled those up.

Good news is she CAN grow out of these allergies and it COULD BE a lot worse.  My friend's son is allergic to corn syrup.  She gave him 1 chocolate chip when he was little and he fainted.  So they have to majorly watch what he eats.

SO until she does grow out of them we will bring our own cupcakes to birthday parties and enjoy learning more about what is in food!