MSPI For A Day

For those of you who do not know, which may be anyone reading this, MSPI stands for milk-soy-protein intolerance and it is a parent’s worst nightmare.  And for 3 weeks we were convinced CJ had it.  To be fair, a doctor pushed it in our heads even more.  The Boogmeister (one of my son’s many nicknames), had stomach problems from about 1 month through about 8 months.  Our initial pediatrician and our final ped kept telling us it was normal and he would grow out of it, but we just refused to believe his gas and squirming was normal.  Every other day I thought he was allergic to something he ate, so I would stop eating it.  The final straw was when there was a streak of blood in his diaper.  I took him to a doctor and that is when it was suggested that he might be and MSPI baby.  Now I don’t know if people truly understand what it is like to have to avoid dairy and soy because those are the ingredients of everything.  I lost a lot of weight from breastfeeding, but this put me over the top.  At first I almost didn’t eat because everything has soy.  Then I did research.  I have to first thank this vegan enthusiast at Trader Joe’s that helped me find Vegan products.  It was even harder though because vegans can have soy.  T.J.’s has signs that indicate Vegan, Vegetarian, and Glutton free so that made it easy to search.  I will tell you right now their vegan snickerdoodles are awesome and they have no soy products.  Another product I found was whole wheat bread from Van De Kamps which has no soy.  That was the only bread I could find.  I ate a lot of rice and I think some corn tortillas.  The best part is it turned out CJ did no have the allergy.  We decided to wait for his well-baby visit to confirm with his doctor.  She explained to us that MSPI babies are really sick and do not thrive.  It is really obvious that they have a problem and since Boogie was in the 75^th percentile, we were pretty sure that was not the case.  Months and months later, we look back and realize I will do anything for my child and that some doctors are not so great to say the least.  Oh well, at least I got some good Vegan products.