It's a big, big (coconutty) world!

I think I can officially say that Brynn has passed the coconut trial!  I am beyond excited, this opens up quite a few more doors for her.  I think we now have a great list of ingredients to do some baking...now to find the time to do it.  =)  Coconut flour, coconut vineagar, coconut manna, coconut aminos, coconut oil, coconut sugar, coconut nectar.....AHHH so many choices!! We already have the coconut ice cream (Brynn LOVES it!), and just picked up the coconut nectar, which is like a syrup.  We plan on making her some potato pancakes (white potato, water and sorghum flour) this weekend and topping it with the coconut nectar!!  Check out these products!

Coconut is said to improve digestion and absorption of nutrients, reduce problems assocatied with malabsorption, and reduce inflammation (among many, many other benefits).  Just what my little B needs! 

No fair Mommy!!!

Yesterday afternoon, Cody asked for a snack.  I got him a snack and set it at the table. He asked for juice, so I grabbed it out of the fridge and poured him some.  Brynn ran up to me and started saying "yeah yeah yeah!!"  I said "ok , let's get your juice!!"  (A few weeks ago I found a pear juice with no other ingredients so it is safe for her)  So I put Cody's juice back in the fridge and pulled out Brynn's pear juice.  She refused to take it and just started crying. I asked her if she wanted a snack and she said "yeah" and ran to the table to get Cody's snack.  I said "sorry honey, that's owie on your tummy".  She threw herself on the floor and started just screaming. So I got her freeze-dried strawberries (her favorite snack), and put her in the high chair. I put some on her tray and she picked every single one of them and tossed them on the floor, screaming and pointing to Cody's snack. If she was able to, she would have been saying "It's just not fair Mommy!!!" 

Up until this moment, she has always seemed to be ok with what she has on her plate and it didn't seem to bother her (or she didn't notice) that her plate/bowl is always filled with something different than what everyone else is eating.  She definitely knew that Cody had a different snack than her yesterday.  I have been dreading this moment for so long. She is beginning to feel left out.   =( 

Broccoli or blueberries?

Last week, we started a broccoli trial.  Well, actually, about 3-4 months ago, we started a broccoli trial, but Brynn got a cold after the first 2 days, so we ended up stopping the trial until she was feeling better.  So I guess I should say we are getting BACK to the broccoli trial.  She actually loves it, she uses a spoon and eats it all by herself! 

We decided to get away for the holiday weekend, so (after our basement flooded due to a busted pipe) we headed to my parent's cabin.  On Sunday, she had her sixth exposure to broccoli, and up until then, we hadn't noticed any symptoms that would lead us to believe we should pull the food.  At dinner, we gave her 5-6 blueberries (which she can normally tolerate).  Well, I was feeling guilty because she wanted more SOOOO badly, so I gave her another 5-6 and she gobbled them up.  A few hours later, the diapers started.  Her bottom was completely raw within the amount of time it took me to grab a diaper and get her changed.  This continued the rest of the day and the following 2 days.  Diaper changes are awful right now because she SCREAMS because it hurts so bad.  She was waddling like a duck the last few days because she is so sore.  She can't even take a bath because the water hurts her.  =( Poor baby. 

So, was it the broccoli or too many blueberries? I have always been somewhat iffy on blueberries and tend to blame them a lot.  Maybe we should just pull them completely.  Or was it the broccoli? She didn't show reaction symptoms up til that day, but then again, it could have been building.  With bananas, we didn't see anything until day 4.  So maybe we saw a broccoli reaction on day 6? I'm stumped.  I guess we have to pull both for awhile and, once she gets back to baseline, try one of them again? I hate to cause pain if I don't have to, but I think we need to know which one is the culprit so she can hopefully keep 1 of them in her diet, rather than pull both for good.  Wish us luck!