When the Geek and I were ‘trying’ to get pregnant with Mr. Charm, I was busy counting calories to be the healthiest I could be before getting preggo. Consequently, I KNEW I was pregnant before I ever had a test when I finished work one night in Raleigh, NC, got … Continue reading
Recently I shared some ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures of my amazing weight loss with my online Mommy friends (from the Parenting Weekly monthly birth club group I joined when I was pregnant with Mr. Charm – yes, three years later and we’re still an active group!) and they were impressed … Continue reading
We’ve seen great improvement in Mr. Charm since going fructose free. He’s much better behaved, and his verbal development is speeding up. Now, it seems, he wants to communicate verbally, whereas before he was content with using his few words combined with gestures to get his points across. We’ve also … Continue reading
OK, I wrote this post with the plan to post it today, but over the weekend some things popped up on our radar that complicates the issues. I didn’t have time to re-write it to include the new stuff, so, here’s the originally planned post, with the weekend revelations at … Continue reading
I HATED when my Mom would say that to me as a child. H-A-T-E-D it. Because I could never see what was “good” about whatever she was referring to! Welcome to Motherhood, Mama! I find myself saying it to Mr. Charm all the time now. I’m not starving him; he … Continue reading
I took Mr. Charm to the GI on Monday, Oct. 15th. The doctor wouldn’t give us the hydrogen breath test, but did other tests to ‘rule things out’. We were told we would be called with the results. They didn’t call. I finally called the doctor on Friday, the 26th … Continue reading
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. I thought MPI and an IgE Egg allergy were horrible. Then I learned how to cook, what to avoid, and I mastered the challenge. Then we got FPIES. I thought I was going to lose my mind over that (and I may feel … Continue reading
Yesterday was an icky day. Mr. Happy was cutting his first tooth, so of course he wanted to be held CONSTANTLY. Mr. Charm was whiny in the morning. I gave up on getting anything done besides staying alive. After their naps, both boys were in better spirits, though Mr. Happy … Continue reading
(I’m going to apologize in advance…this post is rather long and disjointed, but for all my editing efforts I can’t seem to improve it. I’m still exhausted from Monday and seriously irritated and confused, and this is the best I can do. Thanks for sticking with me!) Riddle me this: … Continue reading
It’s been a whole month of nursing Mr. Happy on my elimination diet. I’m torn between cautiously acknowledging success, and jumping up and down with ecstatic joy at the success. (Sometimes pessimism creeps in and keeps me from getting my hopes up too high!) Seriously, though, he seems to be … Continue reading
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