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Still looking for something (anything!) to help with the Peeps digestive issues. The super expensive gripe water with active charcoal that is supposed to absorb the gas didn’t work. It just got black stuff everywhere.
I’ve decided to go ahead and go on the elimination diet. I’m no longer eating any dairy products or soy products since those are the most common food intolerances. It will take at least 2 weeks to see if it works. If it does I’ll probably kick myself for not trying it sooner. If it doesn’t I guess I’ll eliminate the next common items: wheat, corn, peanuts, and shellfish. And if total elimination doesn’t work, I’m not sure what the next step would be. Finally fully resigning myself to the situation I suppose.
I have moments when I deal with everything just fine. And I have moments when I fall apart. Often one right after another. Sunday was a particularly bad day. She didn’t nap at church like she normally does. Essentially she was awake from 7am to about 3pm. She fell asleep in the car on the way home, then napped in the car seat since we didn’t dare move her for about an hour. She woke up, ate a little bit and fell back asleep on me. I held out as long as I could, but I had to get up to go to the bathroom, so she woke up. It was about dinner time anyway so we did our usual dinner & bedtime routine. And that night she slept all of 5 hours out of 12. She would stay asleep for an hour, then wake up and it would take at least an hour to get her back to sleep. When Monday morning rolled around I was beyond tired, grouchy, and at my wits end. I got her and brought her to bed with me and gave myself permission to cry as long as I needed to. The interesting thing was that after having had such a rough night telling myself it wouldn’t be this way forever, becoming delirious from lack of sleep, and trying to keep my emotions in check, as soon as I decided to give in, I felt completely better.
So just as one day she will finally sleep thru the night, one day I will finally learn to accept things as they are. I suspect the former will happen before the latter.

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