Test Results

Okay, sorry it's been such a delay on this! Believe me, it's not for lack of me trying to get the info out of the lab! Thanks to my right hand lady Alisa at the pediatricians office, we did get partial results in the allergy portion of the blood work. It turns out he does have a mild allergy to dairy and an even milder allergy to wheat. The doc. told me though that the rest of the results would be back after the holiday most likely. After some thought, I feel like this is actually pretty good news. If this is the root cause of his issues, it's fixable, also since it's not a severe case hopefully it won't be a life altering issue! We've decided not to do anything yet until we have the meeting with the GI specialist next week to see what they suggest based on these results. They also said that these results aren't exact and that a skin scratch test would be needed. Guess we'll be going to an allergist next. The factor level test still hadn't been done as of this afternoon so that will be after the holiday now as well. I guess I feel a little validation though with this info. Now I feel like I'm not a crazy hypochondriac of a mother, and that there are some issues here.

Also, on a different note we've begun sleep training for Reece. After so many nights of getting one to two hours of sleep between 1am and when we all wake up I've decided it's time to do a little sleep training. As of Sunday he was still being swaddled, rocked to sleep, at least two feeding a night, and still sleeping in the carrier for the first half of the night and the swing the rest of the time. Well, at 6am Monday morning, I decided after NO sleep for the previous 5 hours that I was ready to make a change! I'm happy to report that he has not been swaddled since then, he has also slept in his bed (with the exception of 5am-7am this morning). Last night was an every 30min to an hour waking up, but I'm hopeful that tonight will be better. I had to give in on the swing this morning to keep my sanity. Tonight I almost shed some tears, he went to sleep by himself in his bed with only my hand on his chest for a few minutes! He's still very reliant on the passy, but one step at a time. I'm off to bed in a few minutes in case it's another night like last night!

Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed thanksgiving!