Gypsymom - quick question about the rice milk - are you making it yourself or buying it? The only reason I ask is that different brands have different preservatives in them. I know you are SO restricted right now, but would hate for all your hard work to be undone because of the rice milk you're drinking! On another note - WOOOHOOO that S's diapers are looking better and is doing well.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to make it, so I'm using a commercial product that has been recommended to me by a few different sources. It's called Rice Dream (I'm in Canada). Here are the ingredients:
Water, white rice, brown rice, safflower oil and/or sunflower oil and/or canola oil, tricalcium phosphate, natural vanilla flavour, sea salt, vitamins and minerals (vitamin A palmitate, ergocalciferol, cyanocobalamin, riboflavin, zinc gluconate), amylase.
I'm pretty sure we are not having a reaction to it and I'm happy that it has some added fat, as that is so tough to get enough of these days. I'll drop it if need be, but since I expect to be using such a product until he is at least six months, I thought I'd try for what I could live with longterm, first. This product is fresh in the dairy case and only lasts 7-10 days once opened (they do make a shelf stable one but I haven't tried it).
I would say that these last few days have been his best in a long while. Eczema is almost totally gone and every poop has been *bright* yellow - still a little mucousy and no seeds yet, but definitely really quite nice
Reflux is down too - hurray, although getting some happy spitting after feeds (I think he is hitting his 12wk GS and eating like mad).