Even though I have had a baby before, my mind blocked out all the hard stuff. My brain went right to 6 months where Ainsley was smiling and sleeping well. She was easy to put to bed. She only woke up once a night and was up for 20 minutes at most. She was just generally a happy baby.
And now reality has hit. David wasn't home a week when he was diagnosed with thrush, which is a yeast infection. The main symptoms are a white tongue, horrible diaper rash, and gas. The white tongue we can deal with. The diaper rash got better with some special diaper cream. The gas on the other hand was miserable. When he was awake, he was screaming. It was down right miserable. We had a couple nights when we slept only an hour or 2. We would just watch him pull his legs to his chest in pain. At his one week checkup the doctor told me that the best way to combat the yeast was to stop eating things that fed yeast. Gluten and Dairy. I told him thank you very much but that's impossible. I explained that I was a vegetarian and cutting out gluten would leave me with nothing to eat. I went home and listened to David scream for another week. It was painful.
At his 2 week checkup the thrush had only gotten worse. I was again faced with the decision of gluten and dairy free. And this time, I embraced it. I was going to try it for a week and see if it helped. If it did, I would do it until the thrush cleared up. And so this became my life.
And guess what, it worked. He's happy most of the time. There is still a good bit of gas (he cleared out a room yesterday but I think that's more genetics he gets from his namesakes), but for the most part, he's good. And so I continue with the diet and I am figuring out how to keep myself full.
Sacrifices in life are worth it, especially when it comes to your children.
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