No More Cows

Anyone who knows me knows that I am probably the pickiest eater ever. I don't like any fruits, vegetables, seafood, or condiments. I really mean it. You might say, "Not even strawberries or apples, etc?" I will answer no. I hate all of these things, and I always have. My parents tell me that I used to spit out fruits when I was a baby. I remember them trying to pay me money to eat  strawberries and raspberries several different times when I was younger, but I never got any money. Actually, I probably did because they felt so bad for making me pretty much throw up from sticking those gross things in my mouth. I won't even eat something that has fruit on the same plate. I'm convinced I'm deathly allergic and my tongue is protecting me.

Consequently, my diet is very limited. I like meat, cheese, bread, more bread, peanut butter, cereal, and of course anything that involves sugar (not whatever kind of sugar is in fruit though). And it is about to get even more restricted.

Swen has had a stuffy nose for his entire lifetime. I'm not making this up. At his two month appointment he had been getting over a cold, so I figured that's why his nose was stuffy and I didn't talk to the doctor too much about it. This cold has now been gone for two months, and his nose is STILL stuffy. It drives Swen, Matt, and me nuts. We are cleaning it out all the time; he hates it. He wakes up in the middle of the night because he isn't breathing well. I kept hoping that this would all go away, but it hasn't. After reading about this and talking to a lactation specialist,  it could possibly (hopefully) be an allergy to something I'm eating. The only way to figure this out is to completely eliminate certain foods from my diet and see if Swen's stuffy nose gets better over time. It usually takes a week to notice a difference.

The most common allergy babies react to while nursing is dairy. So starting today I am eating no dairy. Blah! It will be hard to forgo cheese and ice cream because those are two of my favorite things ever. But if it makes Swen's nose less stuffy, it will be more than worth it. His 4-month appointment is next week, so if it doesn't work, I will have given it a shot, and his pediatrician can give me another suggestion. Poor baby Swen is waking up all the time unable to breathe and getting his nose suctioned out several times a day. Then to top it off, he's grumpy in the day from not sleeping well at night. Poor Mommy and Daddy are exhausted from getting up all night and feel awful every time he screams while we clean his nose.  Let's hope this works! I will try eliminating every different food group if I have to see what works because I feel so bad for him.

It can't be one of my blogs with out an annoying number of pictures of Swen right? He's been playing the "I only smile when there's no camera game." Here is our perfect, fat, adorable, wonderful, amazing baby. We LOVE him so much.



Matt always comes home from work at night to the three of us hanging out in bed.



He loves facing out in the font pack.



I love his blue eyes!



Best Daddy ever.



Riding Kitty. I think she still hates him for replacing her.



Playing with the fun Subway paper.