Claire:
Wow alot has happened for you guys since we last spoke! I don't blame you holding off on sleep training especially with that cold and teeth
I wonder if you can see a naturopath and get him on some supplements to support his immune system for recover from that beastly cold?
On the grains: I cook up quinoa - just like rice for absorption method and use for all recipes that have rice in them. Also use rice alot for risottos, pilafs, put them in patties. Occasionally I throw in some rolled amaranth into whatever i am cooking for texture. Of course he has his gluten free bread every morning for toast too.
On the oat milk, I am wondering whether it has enough calcium though? I know rice milk is not allowed for use as a whole milk as its not nutiritius enough. I don't think oat milk is either, but i can see you are still breastfeeding anyway, so that's where he's getting his milk nutruents from
Great news about taking wheat out. I was thinking that he probably doesn't present like an allergy when its through your milk because the milk is such a wonderful filter and softens the effect. Sounds like he has an allergy there for sure!
I reckon you should give the eggs a go! So many options to K's diet now ...... the dietician said symptoms would be profuse egg smelling farts and really rank egg smelling poo, loose stolls maybe mucuous maybe not. Kais poos have been exactly the same, no egg poo LOL!
I am wondering if you might find some benefit from giving Olly his fonger foods first whilst he is hungry, to emphasise that this is food and what we eat, and these are the textures we need to come to grips with... and jar food after just to be sure that you get some calories into him..... I think that jar food sort of freezes their eating ability at the 5-6 month mark, there are no lumps or challenging textures.
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In the freezer I store pre made bags of finely chopped raw low sal veges: -
white cabbage
purple cabbage
choko (small dice)
swede (small dice)
celery
green beans
then its so easy just to pull out a mixture and cook in a tiny bit of water in a little pot and then transform into whatever dish necessary, eg risotto, mine and vege patties, rice pilaf,or jsut toss in gee and garlic for a vege stir fry.
I also premke 1.5 kg batches of mince patties
1.5 kg of chicken and veal mince or else canned lentils
one finely chopped leek and cooked
ABout 1 cup of cooked rice or half half with quinoa
I cup rice flour and rice puffs ground up
egg
steamed or pureed veges
then I crumb them with rice crums and fry in oil.
He eats them as finger food.
On a typical day he eats:
breakfast:
gluten free toast with dairy free butter in fingers
sliced bananna or pear
handful or rice puffs
snack: breastfeed
lunch: risotto with 5 veg
a chicken mince & veg pattie
roasted potato or swede wedges
snack:
paw paw slices and rice cake
Dinner:
slices of roast lamb, or lamb cutlet or else roasted chicken
steamed veg diced small then fried in some clarifed gee
some quinoa cooked with lentils mixed through
He eats everything with his hands and mostly refuses the spoon