Dairy Free

Do you know how much you eat dairy? Yeah I didn't either until my 3 week old started the exorcist style of spitting up. I am seriously talking, arms flailing, spit up coming out of the nose and mouth, shooting across the room. Oh and I cannot forget the look of panic on my baby's face. This did not only happen once but about every other day for about a week; and as you would guess almost only when someone was holding him. One particular time his Gigi was holding him while dressed uber cute and within a moment all was lost. Someone standing by asked "so does his head spin too?" to which I calming replied, "my child is not possessed." So the day came that I called my pediatrician, they told me to do what I already suspected and feared... cut out ALL dairy. At first you think, oh ok I can do this... no milk for your cereal or no cheese on your sandwich, but then you relize that is just the tip of the iceburg. Now I don't know if my family consumes more dairy than yours, maybe because I love cheese or that my husband is from a little state called Wisconsin, but either way I relized we eat a lot of dairy. I will have to say at home things are not that big of a deal, I have vegan cheese, soy cream (for the ever important coffee) and rice milk, so I make do. There are a few minor things at home like when said Wisconsinite wants to eat ice cream while sitting next to you on the couch. Yes, yes I know there is soy ice cream, but at some point it is just not worth it. Then there is going out to eat, this is hard. Sure there is usually something to order, but when you are sitting at your favorite pizza joint eating a salad because they don't have vegan cheese it leaves something to be desired; or when your sisters has made a wonderful choccolate sauce... oh I mean Pot de Creme, poured over ice cream. Truthfully though, it is worth it, I know E is getting the best food for him and I can wear my shirt for longer than just between feedings. So the next time you order coffee with cream, a cheese burger or even eat that cherry cobler think of me and enjoy.