Picture a happy & healthy, fun loving seven month old baby.... then all of a sudden, without warning this beautiful baby suffers from (seemingly) random attacks of vomiting over a one month period. Lasting only a few minutes and then nothing for days.
The last attack however is so violent that the baby is finding it hard to breathe between bouts and so is taken to the A & E.
The attack is subsiding by the time we are seen by the doctor who then dismisses it as an over reacting mother. In the reception, while settling the bill, the attack begins again - and finally we are taken seriously!!!
From there we are sent to Starship children's hospital for treatment. Drip feeding hydration fluid in 2ml amounts every 5 minutes - only to find them being thrown back up.
A terrifying experience for mother, baby & 2 year old sibling who is witness to it all.
We remained in the hospital for a full week, watching our poor baby drop from a healthy 8 month weight down to that of a 5 month old.
Multiple tests and no answers!
Because of her happy nature - even while in hospital - many of the doctors felt that this had been some sort of bug. Though none could explain, how it had been over a month long period and only affected random days.
The only connection I could make, was wheat. Ashlea had started solids at 5 months, but only just begun using the teething bars and other bread based products. Her attacks were all on days were she had ingested an amount of wheat. The last and most violent was after 2 fingers of toast with marmite...both of which are high in wheat.
We were recommended to drop this from her diet to see what happens & sure enough her weight slowly crept up and no more vomiting.
The doctors, despite the evidence, were unwilling to accept this as the cause unless we reintroduced the wheat and saw the same violent reactions.
There was no way I was going to put my poor darling through any such thing - just to prove what had already been proven!
Instead, I retained the wheat free diet and then visited a natropath for an allergy hair test.
No surprises what came back with an off the chart for my little darling...that's right...WHEAT! There were also another 10 items to be avoided, including dairy and soy.
Ashlea is now nearly 2 1/2yrs and on the 75th percentile for both height & weight.
This is the story of my youngest daughter Ashlea, and the horrible experience we faced when she was so young.
Allergy awareness is on the rise, and this week is a tribute to allergy sufferers and their families. To those who don't face this in their day to day life, it is hard to truely imagine the impact it can have.
It is truely life changing.
Here is a new twist on our t-shirt designs, we have a good supply of long sleeved tops and before we go and put our appliques on them we thought it might be fun to ask you to pick your own design!
Picture a happy & healthy, fun loving seven month old baby.... then all of a sudden, without warning this beautiful baby suffers from (seemingly) random attacks of vomiting over a one month period. Lasting only a few minutes and then nothing for days.
We recently received another 40m roll of wool to make our cot bumpers and moses basket liners. The roll is about 2.5m long and always entertaining to work with when there's a full roll. Here's a photo of my youngest taking advantage of the squishy plastic covered roll before I was able to roll some out. She giggled to herself, moving her arms and legs...then shouted "wool angel mummy, wool angel". So cute as she has never been to the snow, but her sister and her both make mock 'snow angels' any chance they get. I guess mummy's little enterprise has it's perks. x x x
Cot Rail Guard/Protector....
