About Us
Hi I am Patricia!
I am so glad you have found Belly and Me! I have been where you are, questioning everything you are doing, worrying about your babies symptoms, feeling lost, losing sleep, struggling to communicate symptoms with your babies providers or feeling unheard. I feel for you and I completely understand what you are going through. Hopefully you are able to gain some useful information from Belly and Me.
A Little Background
My son Bellamy was a very refluxy baby. He was breastfed from day one. Early on he struggled with spitting up, hiccups, reflux, colic, mucus (both congestion and in his stool). This soon escalated into projectile vomiting after nursing. We had his stool tested and it showed signs of occult (microscopic) blood, which lead us to cutting our dairy from my diet and soy was cut out shortly after. We saw a drastic difference but were still noticing symptoms. When all was said and done we had cut out dairy, soy, egg, peanuts, tree nuts, coconut, and oats out of my diet.
All was going well for a bit, until his eczema consumed every inch of his poor little body. He was miserable and we were miserable right along with him. We saw allergists, dermatologists, and chiropractors. Nothing seemed to help, I removed and reintroduced so many foods trying to find the culprit. We finally found the right dermatologist for us. We refused to use any more steroid creams on our baby because they only made things worse. It was a quick fix answer that has potential to do a lot of long term damage. Our dermatologist was willing to work with us and we discovered a topical treatment that worked for Bellamy! The cause of his rash turned out to be an overgrowth of yeast and not entirely food related.
We are currently still working on healing his gut and find root causes (which I will update at a later date) to help heal from the inside out. Even though the topical treatment is helping it is still another band-aid solution. We need to nourish our bodies to restore our gut health.