We have discovered that Megan will let us work in the kitchen as long as she is able to see what we are doing. So that means standing on a stool. We had great intentions of building a "kitchen tower" over the summer but that didn't happen. So I think we are going to breakdown and buy one from Williams-Sonoma just because I do not feel safe with Megan on a stool. This way everyone wins, it is a little (a lot) pricey, but it will get used for years in the kitchen.
To explain why Megan is in the sink...she was standing on a stool next to me while I washed dishes (we don't have a dishwasher) I was done, but Megan wanted no part of being done standing up high where she could see things. She was soaking wet from "helping" me with dishes, so I stripped her down put her in the sink and gave her a messy biter biscuit. She loved it and I was able to clean out my cupboards.
Doesn't this just look horribly uncomfortable? She laid like this for about 5 minutes. They really are made of rubber!
The last few weeks Megan has had some very rough nights. She would wake up around 12:00 screaming. When I went to check on her she would cling to me with a death grip. She was having REALLY bad gas and would just scream in pain. We did everything to help her get rid of the gas. Just when she would try to settle in and go back to bed she would sit up and scream again. This process last 3 hours almost every night. Because is was gas related and not her wanting to party I didn't prevent her from exploring. I kind of made it ok to read books, but she couldn't get toys out (I had to draw the line somewhere) Since she couldn't play with her toys, she played with her diaper bin. These pictures where not taken at night, she was never this happy at 1:00 AM!
Because she was awake for three hours in the middle of the night trying to get gas bubbles out she got kind of sick of me holding her/squeezing her/trying to get her to sleep. So she sought comfort in Baron and no cuddles with him when she starts to get sleepy (cute) If you notice, Baron is holding one of the stacking plastic balls in his mouth. Mark and I put one of his tennis balls inside and we wanted to see how big of a ball Baron would hold in his mouth. It was funny, because he would not let go of the plastic ball!After 2 weeks of Megan waking up in pain I called the doctor to see what was going on. Dr. Hunter thought it sounded like Megan was having problems with the lactose in milk. Mark was thinking that but I didn't think that because she was eating cheese and yogurt since 8 months. Dr. Hunter said that some kids can tolerate cheese and yogurt but not milk (who knew) So now Megan is drinking lactose free milk (expensive) The first two night after switching, Megan slept trough the night :) The third night she didn't go to sleep because of gas. So today I cut out the cheese and yogurt and she just drank the lactose free milk and she went to bed just fine. So I am going to have a few days of figuring out what dairy products Megan can tolerate. Time will tell, cross your fingers she can have some dairy just because she needs it. I'll keep you updated...
2 comments:
I am surprised that Megan has lactose issues after being on breast milk.
Good luck learning what Megan should or should not eat. Hopefully it will not take long so everyone can get a good night sleep for more then one night.
Well, worldwide the only populations that can handle cows milk is north Europeans, middle Easterns, India and north Africans that have been drinking milk for hundreds of generations. In the rest of the world, being lactose tolerant is the exception. As a large part of north American populations are descendants of Europeans, they can handle it well to. Unfortunately, breast feeding does not seem to play a role in this at all. After all, breast feeding is practiced outside of these areas.
The key is apparently the existence of lactase, an enzyme that breaks down the lactose to simpler sugars. And pasteurizing milk destroys the lactase even more.
Usually cured milk products, such as yogurt, kefir, buttermilk and well cured cheeses (not the compressed orange milk sold as cheese in this country, but real cheese) have less lactose than the milk. Traditional made Cheddar or Swiss has less than 10% of the lactose remaining from the milk.
Aging reduce it even more. So I have to get Megan into my type of cheeses. After 2 years of aging, the cheese is lactose-free.
But Soy-milk is the way to go. Lots of calcium and no lactose.
You can also buy lactase in liquid form without a prescription at the pharmacy and add a drop to a glass of milk, but I don't know if that is suitable for small children.
(as you can see, I have a few Asian-American friends; in that group over 90% is lactose intolerant)
We can hope that this is something temporary that Megan gets out off eventually.
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