Ok so I used to think that crazy parents of kids with allergies were just annoying and needed to get over themselves. Ok, get over THIS!!! I am trying to find protine sources which are dairy free which is a challenge since almost EVERYTHING has dairy in it, including soy and canned meats. Cooked meats are often too tough for him to eat. So I gave ( Read more... )

I was going to make little allergic B some noodles, a frozen meatball and some frozen squash cubes. Unfortunately (fortunately?) the noodles weren't done and the squash was over done already. So I figured, screw the squash and lets get the noodles cooked. So I added water to the whole mess and stuck it in the microwave for TOO LONG. Well I stirred ( Read more... )

I know I've read about this before, but I checked the memories and didn't find anything. My diapers smell like ammonia VERY badly. My baby is getting a bit of a rash from it too! What do I do? Vinigar? I've already tried dish soap and then rinsing until its bubble free. I have organic dish soap though. Does that work?

Ok, so I finally decided to start weaning. I was thinking I would START weaning. Like formula at the daycare and maybe for babysitters, but keep nursing the rest of the time for a while. Just this morning (after one bottle at daycare) I breastfed him and he started crying. So I figured I'd see what happened if I made him a bottle. I made him 2 oz. ( Read more... )

Ok so now it's official. B has a level 4 allergy to milk, and a level 4 to egg whites, level 4 to egg yolks. Peanuts are apparently not a problem (yet). So I'm suddenly on a no milk, no egg, no peanut, no tree nut, no shellfish diet untill we wean. Then B's on that until he's 3 years old. I keep wanting to cry. I'm not sure exactly why. It can't be ( Read more... )

Well yesterday I found out that I got my dream job! I will be the director of a new charter school to open in the fall. YAY!!! I know almost nothing about the details becaus we'll be working all that out next week, but there's lots of flexibility there including the desire of both the board and myself to go down to part time once things settle in ( Read more... )

Ok, so forgive the Brittany Spears reference. Our little baby suddenly, it seems VERY suddenly, quit acting like a mere baby. He has very independant opinions now. He'll let us know if he's angry. He's started to ask for things by pointing. He plays games (like some weird version of football Dad made up with a stuffed animal and the living room ( Read more... )

It seems that my son has decided that he will cry it out, with or without my blessing.

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So, is it possible for a child to get less and less sleep every day? The weird thing is, he's technically sleeping the hours I would usually like to be sleeping but yet I'm exhausted. J points out that 8 hours isn't much sleep if you have to wake up every two hours. B took one 15 minute nap today (which was mostly an accident) Finally at 2:30 I ( Read more... )

I just dropped out of my Library Science program. I was having doubts anyway, but then I took another look at my bill. It was a LOT more than I expected. I did the math and realized that for some freakish reason It was going to cost almost three times as much as I had expected for just the basic masters - and I'd need to take more for any specialty ( Read more... )