I think we have seen some improvement in the last 24 hours. There was no screaming from gas pain overnight. There was still some writhing and grunting - but no screaming. Which means I actually got some sleep between feedings! (He even went 4.5 hours before he needed his first fill up of the night!) But he is apparently a silent puker - because he had more spit up on him this morning than usual and I don't remember hearing him do any of that last night.
Is relieved gas pain but more spit up an improvement? That's debatable.
BUT every poop he has had starting with one last night (5 poops now) have all been mucus free!!! Yeah, gross. I know. But great news.
Also good news? No weight loss for me and no drop in milk supply. (Don't get me wrong, I need to lose about 40 pounds - but not from an extreme diet while breastfeeding.) I'm still pretty miserable from an eating perspective, but SO happy to see a positive change for him so quickly. It makes it a lot easier to stick with it.
Crazy and unhealthy as it sounds, I think plain white sugar will be my first addition back into my diet. No, I'm not planning to eat it off a spoon (at least not yet). But I have a very serious sweet tooth and I can add that to just about everything I'm currently eating and change it all up. My cereal would be so much better with sugar. I can cook some apples and pears in sugar. I can make rice pudding with sugar. I can put it on a sweet potato - instead of brown sugar.
I'm not completely set on that yet. Part of me feels like I should do something more healthy. We'll see how I'm feeling when I get there. It will DEFINITELY not be a starch. I am sooooo over potatoes and rice. Blah. A nice hunk if red meat sounds wonderful. So does a cup of coffee. Or a glass of wine. Ahhhh, I miss food.
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