Two months since the last post........jeez!

All of a sudden it's mid-(end of) July, and it's been two months since my last post! How did that happen? On a personal note, things have been well. I've been enjoying my first real holiday in years. Zen Girl continues to live up to her name, and her MSPI seems to be waning. She can now eat soy, legumes, cheese and beef. We are loath to try milk outright, because the introductions of some of the other foods have not been perfect. No blood or anything, just a return of mucous and diarrhea, which then subsided. Her iron levels have returned to normal as well. We have a GI follow up in two months, and we'll see what the story is then. I'm hoping to return to more normal posting as the summer wanes.

MSPI: Comments and Updates

Philosopher Dad reader Grace just left a wonderful comment about her 3 month-old son who has MSPI. It reminded me that I haven't been keeping everyone up-to-date about how Zen Girl is doing.

Actually quite well, thanks.

Her diet now includes:
apples, peaches, pears, carrots, zucchini, squash, oranges, bananas, broccoli, chicken, cauliflower, turkey, lamb and prunes.

Yesterday we started barley. If you've been keeping score, you'll recall that we found blood in ZG's diaper after trying rice cereal in November. We haven't tried any carbs since.

Here's hoping.

The Continuing Story of Zen Girl's Food Intolerance.

The squeaky parents get the grease. In spite of Dr. L.'s threat that getting a second GI opinion for Zen Girl would take six months, we had our care transferred to a new GI this week (same hospital). It seems that our letter to the Ombudsman helped move things along.
Our new doctor, Dr. M. (GI), was kind, thorough, respectful and explained a great deal. We decided together that in order to help ZG develop her oral motor skills etc, we would start trying foods again. In stead of any cereals, we skipped right to carrots.

Today was day 4 of carrots. We saw a speck of blood yesterday - literally a pinprick, that we had to look very hard to find - but we decided to persist. If the blood is due to food sensitivity, it should persist or increase, and if it does we will stop the food and she will have to have an endoscopy. However, today there was no blood in her stool. If she continues blood-free over the weekend, we will try apples on Monday.