Breast: not always best.

Ha! Did you ever think you'd read that on my blog?

In the last 5 years I have spend a total of 22 months nursing, not that im keeping track. For the most part (first week(s) aside) it has been an awesome experience. I spent a lot of time during the first pregnancy focusing on labour and delivery. Other than the schtick present by the midwives I didnt think about nursing until the midwife suggested I try feeding my super brand new baby. ( riiiight, breastfeeding.)

I was lucky. I had a fantastic health nurse and a really easy time nursing, babe knew what he was doing. That was three babies ago and I haven't looked back. I don't get particularity flared up over anyone else's choices as far as breast or bottle go, had my first week been different i would have happily gone the bottle route. With that said I do get upset when a mom wants to nurse but is pressured/ unsupported/ given false information and other wise chooses to bottle feed not because she wants to or has to but because she lacks support and corrected information.

Anyway the moral here is that I have an answer to Jaspers ezecma. It was my breast milk. Or more accurately the antibodies in the breast milk designed to fight off the evil known as Eggs, and Dairy.

I had my blood work tested, and discovered I have a raging IGG allergy to eggs and dairy and Lima Beans (?).

Apparently (and correct me if I'm wrong here) IGG antibodies cross the placneta so if I ate any eggs while pregnant (ha, ha, ha) (2-3 a day, everyday) some of those antibodies were being stored in the baby I was growing. Good work Mom! Typically it takes 6ish months for the poor innocent newborn to process the Antibodies out of their system, unless you are nursing. In which case I just kept giving him more of the bad bad antibodies.

The best news is that when I stopped eating dairy and eggs...Jaspers face completely cleared up (once we were beyond the 6 month mark). Yay! So. I have an answer which is what i so desperately wanted. We are suppose to keep him away from all eggs and dairy for the next six months to allow his body to completely forget about reacting to those things, then reintroduce them.

and for the doubters...the last three outbreaks, can be directly linked to me eating eggs.