Re: WEANED!

May 15, 2006

Beware that often after weaning the gut gets out of balance as fare

as microflora in the gut go. During this time of weaning, I

strongly suggest keeping the strictest SCDiet and only allowing

those foods that are well digested during this transition

time...none of the advanced hard to digest foods (beans, peanuts,

uncooked vegeatables, skins on fruit, go see stages offered on pecan

bread)...use goat yogurt (that is casein safe if fermented for 24

hours) and only allowed SCD safe probiotics and accidolphilus.

Also remember that the average HUMAN weaning if on their own is

anywhere between 3 and 5 years old depending on health of the

child. This statistic come from research on hunter gatherer groups

and La Lech LEague and Dr. Sears. I totaly respect your

wish to mother lead in this....I am nursing two....and have been

leading a bit myself.....but also try to respect KiKI's needs for

the breast since I know that she is truly sick. After a year of

SCD...believe me...I will probably be more persistant at side

tracking her into other activities.

Antoinette

>

> Well, Tom is officially weaned as of today. He hasn't nursed in 12

> days. I kept up with my pumping through yesterday, but I'm not

getting

> any milk, really, so I decided it's time to officially pull the

plug.

> We still have a small amount of frozen pumped milk that he gets

twice

> a week when there isn't time for a snack.

>

> My diet has been severely restricted for over three years. I've

done

> multiple allergy elimination diets and have gone for many months

at a

> time eating just 3 or 4 foods. Since January Tom and I have been

on a

> very restricted SCD allergy rotation diet - each day just 2

> vegetables, 1 meat and 1 oil per day, and we rotate every 2 days.

It's

> been the roughest time, diet-wise, for me, since he was born. But

he's

> thriving, and that is all that counts. Still, I was having a very

hard

> time without carbs, so I started eating some fruits, which he

doesn't

> tolerate, and he had eczema as a result. I had a lot of guilt

about

> eating foods he cant' have; I have a strong feeling that he

shouldn't

> be in his severely restricted diet all alone. I wanted him to at

least

> have mommy be his partner in his diet. But while he's thriving,

I've

> become a starving hypoglycemic mess, so it just wasn't working.

>

> I've been working slowly toward weaning him since last August,

cutting

> down one nursing session every month or so. He is still an avid

> nurser, so it has been hard for both of us. He still asks, and I

just

> tell him that " Mommy's na-na (our word for breasts) doesn't have

any

> more milk, the milk is all in the bottles now. " He doesn't like it

> when I tell him that, he says " I want Mommy's na-na NOW! " It's a

> measure of how well he's healing that he can even say that,

though -

> two months ago he would have just whined and screamed.

>

> So for breakfast today, after I took Tom to school, I poached and

ate

> a nice big egg. I haven't had an egg since 2002. I have never been

a

> big egg eater, but it sure tasted yummy with some salt and pepper!

>

> I don't know what foods I'll add back into my diet yet. I've never

> really had any digestive problems myself, apart from lactose

> intolerance, so I don't really need to stay on the SCD for my own

> health. However, I've come to beleive that humans aren't really

> evolutionarily adapted to eat grains and dairy, so I will avoid

them

> for now. I'm going to take it very slow adding new foods to see

how

> my body reacts. Around Tom, dh and I have agreed to eat what he

eats,

> so he's not in this alone. I've promised dh we will go out to a

> restaurant (Thai) next weekend. I don't know if I'll remain

completely

> SCD - the food prep burden is heavy and I'm starting a job in 2

weeks

> and won't have as much time to cook. Right now, I'm not planning

to

> eat grains and dairy, but I plan to add back the vegetables and

fruits

> Tom was allergic to, certain nuts, and prepared juices (because of

the

> time factor). I hope to avoid most procesed foods and especially

any

> that contain sugar. I am avoiding sugar and corn syrup, period.

>

> Is there anyone else (adult) on the board who has gone off the SCD

and

> can relate their experience with it? I am curious how it's gone

for

> others.

>

> Suzanne

> Mom to Tom, 3.6, ASD, LNH, gastritis, inflamed gut, WEANED TODAY,

> both SCD 85 days

>

May 15, 2006

His SCD is extremely strict - we haven't added any new foods since

the first month out of the intro diet. He's allergic to most

everything else, tolerates only a few meats, oils and veggies.

I always planned to let him self-wean, however long it took,

especially since nursing was so difficult for us in the beginning

(nursing from a single breast due to cancer, baby didn't latch for 3

weeks, finger-feeding for 6 weeks, re-lactation at 3 months, 24x7

pumping the entire first year, multiple elimination diets, and on

and on). But he shows no signs of self-weaning at 3.6, and my milk

production is virtually zero, even with milk-enhancing medications.

He's been getting less than an ounce of milk a day for 9 months now.

So the nutritional cost/benefit was just not there anymore. I needed

the time for cooking, and keeping me on this diet is too labor-

intensive. I need to give my time over to cooking for him and

searching for a job to pay the therapy bills. Plus, I haven't done

well on no carbs - I'm a hypoglycemic mess.

It still breaks my heart to tell him " no " .

Suzanne

>

> Beware that often after weaning the gut gets out of balance as

fare

> as microflora in the gut go. During this time of weaning, I

> strongly suggest keeping the strictest SCDiet and only allowing

> those foods that are well digested during this transition

> time...none of the advanced hard to digest foods (beans, peanuts,

> uncooked vegeatables, skins on fruit, go see stages offered on

pecan

> bread)...use goat yogurt (that is casein safe if fermented for 24

> hours) and only allowed SCD safe probiotics and accidolphilus.

>

> Also remember that the average HUMAN weaning if on their own is

> anywhere between 3 and 5 years old depending on health of the

> child. This statistic come from research on hunter gatherer

groups

> and La Lech LEague and Dr. Sears. I totaly respect your

> wish to mother lead in this....I am nursing two....and have been

> leading a bit myself.....but also try to respect KiKI's needs for

> the breast since I know that she is truly sick. After a year of

> SCD...believe me...I will probably be more persistant at side

> tracking her into other activities.

>

> Antoinette

>

May 15, 2006

My daughter is not autistic, but when I weaned her at 2 1/2 I did it when my

parents and neices came to visit. When she would ask, I would say " when

grandma and grandpa go home... " and we were busy going here and there and I

kept all of them entertaining her. After the week she forgot about it

completely...just thought I'd share what worked for me. If I was home alone

with her it would have been much harder!

Kerri

All SCD 4 months for 7 year old with constipation (gone!) and rages ( much

fewer!)