The five month comb-over had to come to an end. I wish his eczema would go with it!
He looks older and not so baby-like. I was torn about the whole thing. It was Sunday morning before church and I was tired of the old man look so I chopped it – three inches off the top! (Bennett was almost a year and a half when he got his first haircut – and even then, he didn’t have much to cut off)
We’ve introduced peas into his diet and he doesn’t seem to mind them. He’s a big boy and has outgrown his 3-6 month clothing. He babbles and babbles, loves the sound of his voice. Still swaddled to sleep – I’m confident by the time he goes to kindergarten we’ll have him weened!
See more of his chalkboard art.
Oh I love his hair cut! Such a cutie.
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I saw this! I didn't know if I should pull the trigger on it or not – I want to talk to someone that has used it. Thanks for the heads up!
You don't know me but I found your blog through blog surfing and have loved reading it. I am always hating to be a giver of advice to someone I don't know and when I see someone else post something giving me advice about a blog post, I always cringe. So if this is cringe-worthy and you have already explored this option then please just delete this comment:) I just wanted to say that my son had the same eczema patches. They wouldn't go away. He also had some other stomach issues like spitting up and extreme fussiness. We sought out medical advice from our pediatrician and also a pediatric gastroenterologist. It turns out that after months of treatments, meds. and finally allergy tests that the eczema was caused by allergies to dairy and eggs. It turns out there is quite a bit of research tracing eczema in young babies to allergies. I really didn't know anything about it until my son had this condition and when we treated the allergies the eczema immediately went away. Then when my fourth was born she had the same symptoms, and we knew what to do like eliminate dairy and eggs from my diet so it wasn't coming through the breast milk. Like I said before, if you have already tried some like this, and I'm making you cringe thinking that a total stranger is giving me advice- please feel free to delete. I completely get it and will not be offended:) – just wanted to pass along some knowledge that took us months of struggling to find.
I love the advice of readers – there are so many people experiencing similar things, I don't want to figure it out on my own! I had heard that it might be related to what I was eating – I suppose I didn't really want to believe it! We have his six month appointment coming soon and I need to look further into some allergy testing. I guess I kept thinking he'd grow out of it and it wouldn't be a long-term problem; six months later I'm second guessing that thought! Your fourth child that was having issues – did she have issues when you switched her to cows milk? How long did the allergy last?
Thanks so much for your help!
Sorry I had a few typos that were driving me crazy so I had to repost:)
My third and fourth still have problems with food. My son (#3) was diagnosed with egg, peanut, dairy at 18 months. He has to strictly avoid eggs and peanuts. The allergist gave us advice to slowly desensitize to dairy, which we have done. He can eat it in small amounts and not suffer although he is not on cow's milk at all, only soy milk and is now 3.5 years old. My fourth (daughter) had serious problems shortly after birth. The pediatric gastroenterologist ended up putting her on a prescription formula called Neocate which is hypoallergenic (which we refer to as liquid gold at our house because of the price:). She is now 17 mos. and still on that for one feeding before bed. Otherwise she is on almond milk with added protein. She wasn't tolerating soy so we had to find an alternative. We did try hemp milk as per her dietician but she refused to drink it at all. We are slowly trying to desensitize her to dairy but I don't think she will drink straight cow's milk either (but hopefully I can be proved wrong.) It is not a situation that I ever expected to find myself in. There weren't really any allergies in either side of the family so it was all new. I am glad though I found out the cause, because it really was living through a nightmare with all the screaming, reflux, eczema, etc. I will admit that it is really hard to do the elimination diet and something that I didn't take lightly. I did it with my 3rd for over a year and for 3 months with my #4 before she went on the hypoallergenic formula. I do have some great tips to substitute things in place of dairy that tasted good if you need them. Hopefully it is not allergy related, but if it is there are a lot more resources now than there used to be even three years ago when I had my son. Good luck!
He's such a cute baby!