A whole year has passed!!

Two weeks ago Halle Grace turned ONE!! I love first birthdays. I love looking back on photos and seeing how much she has grown! It's seriously crazy how small they start out to how big they become in such a short amount of time. I'm as proud of Halle and all her accomplishments as i am of myself and Reuben for making it through the year! Halle is one tough little girl! Thinking back to everything she has endured this year, it's just amazing how well she coped. The flu, 2 bouts of pneumonia, hand foot and mouth and FPIES. She got through it all with very minimal treatment and no medications as she was allergic to everything we tried. Our bodies really are incredible at healing. I am also super proud to have made it a whole year on such a restricted diet. It has been one of the hardest things i have done but i'm so thankful i could continue to give Halle the best nutrition she needed. As she has gotten older we are seeing that she isn't as sensitive through my milk anymore and i have had sneaky tastes of 'naughty' foods without reactions. So hopefully over this year i can start adding more foods and enjoy some more variety.

So where are we at with foods for Halle since my last post? She has 7 definite safe foods!! Pumpkin, carrot, sweet potato, zucchini, almonds beef and lamb! Over the past week after an appointment with a dietitian we have taken a leap and introduced 6 new foods; cashews, banana, dates, blueberries, honey and coconut oil! I wasn't going to add that many at once but it just sort of happened because i started giving her tastes of my snacks without her reacting so i just kept going. So far so good. She did a huge vomit in the middle of the night last night but is otherwise fine so i'll just keep monitoring her. At our appointment we realised she had lost some weight and hadn't gained anything in over 2 months so our goal was to start feeding her up. She now eats pumpkin soup for breakfast, some bits of fruit and bliss balls i made her for snacks, roast vegetables for lunch and a mix of meat with vegetables for dinners. All her main meals are cooked in broth with lots of fat and I add coconut oil to basically everything to help with the weight and also the constipation. That is her biggest issue now since adding more foods. She is loving it though! And i am loving feeding her.

Since my last post she has had a couple more acute reactions to egg. They both haven't been as severe as her first reaction and the time period seems to have gone from 2 hours after eating it to 4 hours later. It's still crazy how the tiniest crumb of anything with egg in it can cause so much vomiting! We need to be very vigilant to keep any snacks with egg in them out of her reach and the floor of the house needs to be vacuumed a lot to keep her safe. It's why Reuben bought me a robo vacuum cleaner. It's been so helpful! 😀 I love it!!

For the more recent future we will continue doing what we are doing. I am hoping to get Halle eating all the same foods as me soon so meal times are a bit easier. Then after we have gotten there i will start introducing foods to my diet to see if she reacts to them still. We are praying she has at least outgrown some of her allergies/intolerances.