Hi everyone,

We're back from our Grandma holiday. Lots of time out for me and no cooking! Had a nasty episode of food poisoning but still feel refreshed and relaxed.

Girls are both good.
Emily has even started taking a bottle with her lunch and dinner. I've been giving it to her instead of water and she is consistently taking around 60-70ml each time. Not huge, but big for her. She is now suddenly eating like a big person. Lots of variety and normal meal times. Its so much easier when every one is doing the same thing.
We've also had a bit of success wiht dairy in the last few weeks. She's been having bits and pieces with no obvious reaction. With that and the fact that she is tolerating and loving egg I feel like a whole world of food has opened up for us. Its been 6 weeks since the doctor said we could liberate her diet (his words not mine LOL) and I'm just about ready to believe that she may be able to eat a normal non-restricted diet. I know she is fine on wheat, egg is good and it seems she may be Ok with some dairy.
I guess at some point I should try her on a normal formula. Our SA number for neocate runs out in 4 months so at least there is no hurry.
I'm also going to bite the bullet next week and start reducing her losec. A very frightening thought. Fingers crossed.

Plus the clever girl is learning lots of new words. On the weekend she learned to say 'Danny' which is mums dog and out cats name. It was love at first sight with her and the dog. She thinks he's great, and she has food- so he thinks she's great! She kept offering him sausage going 'ta' and then laughing and eating it herself. Probably not very hygenic but fun anyway.

Hope everyone is well and happy.

P.S I'm just reading through my post thinking I shouldn't write a things are going good post, because now something will happen to upset the apple cart!! I don't want to jinx things.

Yay for Emily and milk...and can relate to the sharing food with the dog...Ian's milk intake is down to 80ml in the morning only and he is still a pain to feed but enough is going in.

I have freedom...it has arrived in the form of a 4WD motorbike so now I can leave the house and visit the boys on the farm and not disappear into town. Up until now was reliant on the boys being in walking distance on the farm or getting rides with them during Ian's up times - cause he is still fairly happy on his two sleeps - so we could get a bit housebound if DH was out the back of the farm - now I have my own bike - yay

Ian's nappies are still the same but interestingly his spots around his nose have abated. He goes back onto gluten on Friday so will be interesting to see if they come back or not or if they were linked into the colds and teeth that have been occuring over the last month.

Kat/Kells/Ellie and anyone else - how are you?

Hi guys, quick update as baby is awake in between feeds. All going well here even had a half day recently where spilling seemed to have disappeared. After her losec afternoon dose she spilled and spilled again but gives me hope. LOL fi1976 - it's great putting her in the backpack and going for short bursts on the quad up the drive I look forward to venturing further as time permits. I've also been getting the odd 2 hour day sleep and 1.5 hours in the afternoon which is great. Some days it's back to one hour but again - perhaps things are finally normalising!!!! I have plunket on the 15th and see the dietician on the 14th so look forward to that. No more solids at the moment, I'm just enjoying her growing and doing new things! Still refluxing though in between feeds but nothing like it was.

Immunisations coming up yuck! I'll put them off for 4 weeks again (I did this all the way through).

Don't have time to go through all the posts, but I hope you are all back in "Well land" and the babies/kiddies aren't tiring you all out too much.

hugs
Kat

All I just edited in those two posts was the topic number.