I feel like celebrating about my sons weight gain!

I have noticed the past few days my 2 (will be 3 in sept) year old who has always been severely underweight from allergies to milk/soy when he was born until 20 months of age has finally got baby fat on him! I went to put pants on him the other day that I usually can slip on w/o unbuttoning and it was impossible... then I noticed his legs are getting some meat on them....
He by no means is a fat kid.. but he is finally looking healthy! I am so proud of him! I think its from his new fav food... peanuts! We eat at texas roadhouse every 2 weeks on our fish trip we take, my husband and I are off work together every 2 weeks and we have to take the little guy w/ us... and they leave buckets of peanuts on the table.. well he has got to where he loves the peanuts... then it lead to peanut butter... Don't get me wrong... this kid is a very healthy eater... his fav food aside from peanuts is carrots and grapes... then the only meat he will eat is chicken... he has grown out of all his allergies (thank goodness the formula he was on was 54 dollars a can)...

But I am sooooo happy my little man is finally looking healthy!
This is my fish guy, he is the one who got me way involved into fish, we thought we were going to have to send him to a speech therapist and I picked up on his "obsession" w/ Nemo, well I bought him a few fish and drug out the old fish tank of his brothers and got some guppies... then he went crazy that night talking.... then he got me up at 3am that night talking about the fish... he hasn't shut up since! and as far as fish goes... the obsession has spread to me and then came mutli-tank syndrome! He also watches our 55 gallon tank as if it were a big screen tv... and talks constantly about the fish.... no speech therapy for him!

 

That's excellent. I have a friend who is over 6' and weighs around 150. His son has been even more underweight than the dad, and there's serious concern about his health because of it.

 

Very good news..

 

yes and allergies don't help any at all. My youngest son was allergic to 27 things at the age of 13 months. the worst was milk and soy. do you know how many products have either milk or soy in it. Now he's a big strapping 26 yr old.
Congrats on the weight gain and the interest in fish.
Carol

 

yes and allergies don't help any at all. My youngest son was allergic to 27 things at the age of 13 months. the worst was milk and soy. do you know how many products have either milk or soy in it. Now he's a big strapping 26 yr old.
Congrats on the weight gain and the interest in fish.
Carol

thanks.. its nice to hear about kids who have grown up completly after going through the allergies... I know he was allergic to more than just milk/soy.. the formula he was on was basicly tube feeding, well not basicly it was it was made from corn. Yes my child was fed from corn.... Its awlful all the products that have milk/soy in them. I am on a med that I cannot mix soy in my diet that leaves out a lot of food! His gI doctor told me no resturant food at all for him when his allergies were severe, especially when I thought that it was a good idea to give him carrots at a jap steak house... he had a resp reaction (thank goodness I am a resp therapist and his dad is a paramedic..) after that all of his food came from my kitchen or a grandparents kitchen until after we got him over the allergies... luckily!
We share the same responses however to certain foods like when we eat pizza hut both of us get stomach aches, etc... and other resturants too... I was the first baby in the 70s that my mother knew of on a hypoallerginic formula... so it def is hereditary... I still cannot tol milk in my diet...

 

Ugh, anything at a Japanese place, except perhaps sushI (and then only if he can deal with a bit of contact contamination) is going to have soy of one form or another. I have to wonder what it is about soy that makes it such a huge problem. If a person's allergic to it, it's like a poison. Otherwise, it's a superfood. I just don't get it.

 

Fantastic news. Happy for ya.

 

Great news!

 

Ugh, anything at a Japanese place, except perhaps sushI (and then only if he can deal with a bit of contact contamination) is going to have soy of one form or another. I have to wonder what it is about soy that makes it such a huge problem. If a person's allergic to it, it's like a poison. Otherwise, it's a superfood. I just don't get it.

at the time we were in a milk trial and I was told to give him anything and everything.. that was the big neg reaction to food. now I canoot have any food from either the chinese or jap places because of the soy for my meds...

 

Glad to hear that your little one is doing much better and gaining weight. I am also intolerant to milk products and with so many products that cause allergies its hard to find what a person can eat with food allergies. I'm surprised that he can eat peanuts, but that's a good thing. I love them myself.

speaking of peanuts.. have you ever had boiled peanuts? From the south, (or at least traveling to Texas a lot I bet you have). I dated a man from the south for ten years and he introduced me to boiled peanuts. At first, I thought he was crazy.. but ummm ummm they sure are good! lol...

 

Great news! Did you nurse him as a baby? A lot of allergies can be prevented by nursing for the 1st 6 months of life...

 

Great news! Did you nurse him as a baby? A lot of allergies can be prevented by nursing for the 1st 6 months of life...

belive it or not that is actually a myth for the babies that have true milk/soy allergies and reflux like my child. there are numerous babies whose mothers are on "elimination" diets where they cannot eat milk/soy while they are breastfeeding their babies. I belong to a support group still for reflux babies and allergies/breathing troubles are included and the mothers who breastfeed go through this all the time, they actually after about 2-5 months of the elimination diet go ahead and give them the 54 dollar a can stuff because the soy-milk free diet for the mother is impossible, the doctors get so picky that the mother cannot even eat dairy to the point they have to cut red meat out of their diets.
I gave breastfeeding a try w/ both of my children and I have a true problem that only my gyn can explain, he told me 6 mth before I got preg I wouldn't be able to breastfeed no matter how hard I wanted too. But I still against his wishes still gave it a try w/ lactation specialist... and ended up making my child frustrated for about 3 days and eventually the lactation specialist said no I couldn't so we went to formula. I found on my own w/ my first child something wasn't right and gave him formula after 1 week of trying and feeding him every 30 min... after no sleep for that long something had to give

 

I'm happy he is doing better and gaining....Keep us posted on his progress

 

Great news! Did you nurse him as a baby? A lot of allergies can be prevented by nursing for the 1st 6 months of life...

actually I did when he was weaned is when the allergies flared. poor baby thought mommy was trying to kill him
Carol

 

actually I did when he was weaned is when the allergies flared. poor baby thought mommy was trying to kill him
Carol

Whoops, I meant nurse until 12 months (kidding) The longer the better...

 

I wished I could have w/ both of my boys... I actually had a (tmi) clear milk w/ my first son for over a year because of the bond w/ him... I really wanted my body couldn't... the second there wasn't anything at all... I had actually had some hormonal issues that the ob/gyn saw me for months before I got pregnant w/ my second child... so he knew I couldn't breastfeed and warned me by saying not to be "let down", this is the mother who still will rock her 6 year old to sleep like a baby if she has to..... so of coarse I was let down.. My nurture/maternal instincts are overpowering w/ the boys... my husband got so scared last night when my cousin came in w/ their newborn that I would want another baby.... luckily carson is and was more than a handful sickness then, and full of being spoiled rotten now... that I don't want another baby... I would rather spoil one and hand it back to the parents....

 

I would rather spoil one and hand it back to the parents....

yep those are called grandchildren
and great-grand children
carol :-*

 

yep those are called grandchildren
and great-grand children
carol :-*

and w/ my oldest being 6 I hope its at least 24 years before that happens... so he has a college edu and is settled some first...

 

That's great!!