Written by: host
7/10/2009 8:28 PM

Wow- Beatriz is already 7 months "wise" today !

And what a healing adventure my Mommy Birgit and I have been on these last few months, which caused us to have to cancel our trips to Indiana and the Netherlands (when I was supposed to meet the rest of my Dad and Mommy's family members)!

Let me start by sharing the "facts" regarding my growth progress:

At 5 months: weight 16lbs 4 oz, length 26.5
At 6 months and 2 weeks: weight 18 lbs 5 oz & length 28.5
At 7 months (today): who knows but take a look at my pictures and you'll see progress ;-)


For those of you who want to know more "details" than what we are about to share, please let my Mommy Birgit know. Since my birth she has daily been jotting down at least 1 sentence regarding what she noticed new about me and my growing up journey ;-) And during the last few months, my Mommy has also kept notes regarding the feedback she received from various doctors she was sent to (including copies of all her lab work results), along with valuable input from others who were so kind to share their own thyroid related healing journeys with her. Anyway, following is an attempt to give you a "summary update" on both of us:

Beatriz up-dates:
I am still breast-feeding, but my Mommy's supply has not kept up with my growing needs, so since about 3 weeks I only receive her yummy milk about 3 times every 16 hours (but who is counting?). This also means that we went through many "trial and errors" regarding finding another source for me to grow on since I have been allergic to so many things (inlcuding soy and goat milk), but at last we found a hypo-allergenic formula by Neocate which I tolerate (although as of this week I am being "fussy" again and will only drink the formula when I am really really hungry). Anyway, I have also finally starting to venture out and eat a few bites of rice "cereal", fresh pureed carrots, yellow squash and sweet potatoes. Oh, and sometimes I munch on some pears and sweet apples.
My eating and sleeping patterns are still such that I do not have a pattern other than I basically like to "snack" and "nap" a lot. And who knows "what I will be when I grow up", but I do know that I love to have people help me "walk and kick the ball", and I really like it when my Mommy takes me into the grown up pool to "swim" !

Mommy Birgit up-dates:
She found out that her extreme fatigue these last few months did not just come from me keeping her up at night during the pregnancy and thereafter...in fact, after being sent to various "specialist" doctors and undergoing many lab tests (including a trip to the emergency room which she was urged to go on for a possible blood clot), she was diagnosed with 4 "healing opportunities";
1) hypo-thyroid (after having been diagnosed hyper-thyroid within a 10 day span but this apparently does occasionally happen post-pregnancy)
2) intestinal permeability ("leaky gut" syndrome ~ http://www.ei-resource.org/illness-information/environmental-illnesses/leaky-gut-syndrome-(lgs)/
 3) adrenal fatigue, and
4) celiac disease (well we kind of already knew that and I probably have the same...an intolerance to dairy and gluten products...we sure wish some restaurant owner would consider that for their menu selection ;-)
She was very "surprised" to discover the many "challenges" around thyroid related health issues...and found only one woman out of all the ones that she networked with (either via her own connections or via emails forwarded to other people's networks and thus new contacts) that had experienced a successful healing journey...all the other ones were mis-diagnosed, or put on incorrect medical thyroid medication and/or doses, and the ones that were told they would one day be able to get off the medication were still on it years later...but all that "desperation" has led us to "innovation" in terms of finding "outside the box and very effective" health practitioners and treatments (more on that later since my Mommy is in the middle of finally getting healed and then hopefully be able to help others on similar paths ;-)

Daddy Jamison's up-dates:
For details, ask him and visit his website at www.jamisonday.com . What I can share now is that he was offered a job with LSU, which he as accepted since he considers it a "great match" to his skill set and career goals (he starts on August 17th). And I can still confirm that he cooks us the best plain chicken in town in between his many travels to Washington D.C (ask him for great pictures at the White House ;-)

Hope you all had a Happy 4th of July and are enjoying your summer time ;-)

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