My little bird is almost 5 months old and time has never felt faster in my life. It feels like just yesterday I was going in for a routine appointment and the nurses telling me I wasn't leaving and would be having my baby within 48 hours. I remember telling them I wasn't due for 7 more weeks and that I had plans to go to Homegoods that day. I clocked in on the scale at 199lbs. The most I've ever weighed and it looked like it. I had told my doctor on several occasions that I thought I had pre-eclampsia but she kept telling me I'd be bigger or my blood pressure would be higher. She never took into account that my health pre-pregnancy was so good that when it started going downhill my numbers just looked average. So by the time they realized something was wrong I had gone so far as to have developed HELLP Syndrome and my liver was shutting down. Myself and my little babe barely made it by the grace of God. For the first 3 weeks of his life he was in the NICU and being a teeny preemie they sent him home with formula to supplement with breastmilk. He was too small to breastfeed so I would have to pump and bottle feed him but luckily while he was in the NICU I got to stay at the hospital and the nurses set me up on a pumping schedule so we went home with a freezer full of frozen breastmilk, I thought we had it made. After 2 weeks I noticed he was having a really hard time pooping, really fussy and lots of gas. Doctors told me pooping is hard for babies sometimes, he was also spitting up a lot after every meal. These things were "normal" baby issues according to the doctor and Google but I wasn't buying it. I took him off of the formula and he started having less trouble pooping. Then I decided to cut dairy out of my diet assuming that was what was causing discomfort with the formula. After that the poop trouble went away and the cradle cap he was getting stopped spreading. He was still spitting up so next I cut out soy and saw the benefits of that and over 2 months we eliminated dairy, soy, eggs, corn, chicken, beef, fish, gluten, nuts, coconut & canola oil.
12 weeks after he was born I had dropped the 60+ pounds I gained during pregnancy and almost 10 weeks later I've lost another 10 pounds and am smaller than I was when I got pregnant and I feel amazinggggg. It was hard at first giving up all the foods I loved but I realized how rundown they made me feel. Now I've got more energy and my chunky baby is happy and thriving.
My diet now consists of a ton of fruits and veggies, brown rice, the occasional gluten free treat, and the power combo of my prenatals and a spoonful of vinegar.
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