Chugging Along

In our case, no news is good news :) Claire has responded well to her daily apple-flavored antibiotics (based on how willingly she sucks it down, I think she considers it her dessert :) and we haven't seen any more signs of infection. As for her FPIES, three months after the last episode and diagnosis, my worries for another episode reside in the back of my head. Perhaps the daily precautionary measures are becoming routine and family-and-Clairey-friendly meal planning is a welcome (tasty!) challenge, or maybe we've just discovered that FPIES isn't going to change the game, but kick it up to the next level.

Claire has handled eleven foods brilliantly and so far number twelve seems to be falling in line with all the rest. She eats three meals a day at the table with us. I feed her varying portion sizes of her new food in the morning for breakfast and creative combos of her "Hooray! Foods" for lunch and dinner. I suppose it's my own paranoia, but I don't want her to go without eating any given food for more than a couple of days at a time. After our experience with rice cereal (handling it just fine and then having an episode after taking a break for a couple of weeks), I don't want her body to "forget" the foods we've painstakingly introduced with success :)

As she continues to hit her developmental milestones, staying one step ahead of her (literally!) make for additional considerations. Aside from the conventional baby-proofing, we have to make sure that there aren't any crumbs laying around that could find their way into her mouth... She's a bit of a slithering vacuum cleaner (her crawl is more of a slither :). Fortunately, at two-and-a-half, I think Andy understands as well as a two-and-a-half-year-old could, that food will make Clairey sick, unless it's given to her by mommy and daddy. I've already caught him telling her, "No Claiwey, that food makes you sick". It does my heart good to know that he's looking out for her, too :)