A step in a new direction?

Or maybe (hopefully?) a leap! A leap towards true gut healing and finding our little man's baseline and moving on with food introductions.

Big day today! Hemp milk arrived this afternoon (thankfully the one with the expiration date after Feb.2011 to assure natural flavors in it are corn free). We gave him some right away, he loves it! Half the worry was if he was going to take it....although I figured he would- he doesn't seem to be a picky eater or "super taster" as one of my other boys is. He has had a good evening and fell asleep without any problems. So, now we wait....we wait to see how his body will accept it and if he will drink enough of it, then we begin the process of adding fortifiers because it isn't very high in calories or protein. But if it helping to finally heal his gut and his body can absorb each of those calories, he is still winning. Although, we know we won't be able to continue it just "as is" for too many days. We see his Dietitian on Tuesday so by then we should know how his tummy is handling the change.

It is my #3 son's 3rd birthday today!! Wow, 3yrs go so quickly. It seems just last week he was the age of our littlest man. Birthdays are always celebrations for mommy's too...bittersweet celebrations. I always say I want to find the pause button....until now - with FPIES, I'm looking for the fast forward!!