Yesterday, I gave Emily a full jar of baby sweet potatoes and a jar of baby rice cereal with applesauce. All day today, she has had a runny nose and pretty potent diapers. I was hoping that was going to be it, but she is in her crib right now coughing and gagging.

Two steps forward, three steps back.

We may be able to get a small supply of Neocate for Emily! I'm pretty sure it is past the expiration date slightly, but I'm glad to at least have a chance of getting some more.

Emily continues to do extremely well with the Puffins and bits of chicken. The egg noodles did not cause a reaction either. She did get drop of milk from her sister's sippy cup, and that gave her a pretty yucky rash. She also had saltines that caused a reaction. The 2 ingredients in common were milk and soy.

I bought some allergy books recently, and I finally got a chance to read them today. The information is so overwhelming that I started to get depressed. I needed to come here and write out how well she is doing to convince myself this is all going to be okay!

Emily got into some CORN chips the other day, and....NOTHING HAPPENED! No diarrhea, no rash, NOTHING! I've been giving her Puffins cereal (rice), which she loves, and that is going extremely well. She's had bits of chicken, and yesterday, I gave her 5 short egg noodles. We will see what happens today. This is pretty exciting!

The last few weeks have been pretty quiet. Introduction of foods is slow at best. Emily throws food faster than I can catch it, so clean up has been funny and frustrating! She is at a point where she refuses to eat chicken or rice whole, and she spits out the mashed varieties as well. I still have no idea if chicken or rice agree with her because she will not eat them. We have found that she cannot have anything even cooked in oil or processed near corn without having a bloody stool episode.

Sunday she had part of a saltine cracker and developed diarrhea pretty quickly. The allergens that were possibly present were soy and milk. I'm giving her tummy a day between episodes to calm down, so that is why things are extra slow. I'm starting to panic because we will no longer be able to get the old Neocate in about 5 weeks. I still don't know what we are going to do then.