The good news is that she is a very nice woman who has 17 month old twins so she seemed to really understand where we were coming from. She was also interested in doing the least invasive interventions possible. This means first ruling out allergy-related reflux. The bad news is that this means a REALLY restrictive diet for Kathy. Specifically, she can't eat anything containing milk, soy, wheat, nuts, eggs, or citrus. At the same time, she needs to eat enough food to maintain her calorie intake and milk supply. This means a LOT of meat, rice, and potatoes with some fruit and veggies thrown in. SSSOOOOO if anyone has high calorie recipe and/or snack ideas that meet these specifications, please e-mail us! And wish us luck that soon our babies will be this happy all the time!
Gabe and Elias giggle for joy!
In our efforts to help the boys be more comfortable, we briefly started them on rice cereal mixed with breastmilk. The boys really seemed to enjoy playing with spoons and semi-solid foods.
Elias tries some solids for the first timeWhat a champ with the spoon!
Gabe after a particularly productive meal with Daddy
1 comment:
I don't have recipes (offhand), but it sounds like good old-fashioned comfort food like sheperd's pie or stuffed peppers or chili (don't know how you and the boys do with spicy food, but you could make it mild, or make the white-bean/chicken kind) would fill the bill.... also, lentil soup with kale and sausage (I like kielbasa best) is really nutritious and incredibly tasty. You just make lentil soup (add carrots & celery!), and chop up a bunch of kale and throw that in, along with some big ol' chunks of kielbasa.
And if you can tolerate company (you know, someone who can sleep thru anything or not care if I am kept up), you might be able to get some friend to come stay for a night and cook up a bunch of stuff and freeze it. I suppose itt'd have to be someone who is living on the academic calendar and has a couple of weeks off in January. For instance. :)
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