Toddlerhood

At what age is a baby no longer a baby?

It struck me as I was taking theses that Avery is not so little anymore!

15 month photo!

It seems I am either too busy or taking photo's of others that I

neglected to get Avery's 15 month photo done. Here is one ill attempt to get a shot... We need to get her tongue in her mouth! She acutally has been keeping it in a lot lately! Silly girl thought this table was her dance floor!

Playing

Avery just playing..... running around her crib and hiding from Mom!

A Tribute to our Maga on Mother's Day

Here is a picture of our Maga, Avery's Great Grandma, My Grandmother who passed away New Years Eve. We loved her dearly and miss her so much. Avery loved seeing her in her nursing home near the end. She was drawn to her as she lay in her bed. She would dive towards her every time. It's almost as if Avery knew that she needed her somehow. To this day Avery begs to see maga in a photo we have in her room. She looks at it, points, plays and then kisses Maga every time. We Love you Maga..... we pray for you everyday.

Flu shot ordeal

After being told that the flu shot was PERFECTLY SAFE... the exact words of our pediatrician we decided after 6 months of hounding by the ped's office we reluctantly gave Avery the flu shot to ward off possible flu due to her upcoming surgery....... WRONG decision. I did not listen to my Mothers intuition.. I just new I should not give her that shot and I was right. I only gave it to her b/c the peds office scares a mother into it... "Ya know... she is going to be in the hospital at the worst time of the year...."

Well, it turned out that the Peds office didn't do their homework on my daughter BEFORE they gave her the shot... Avery is HIGHLY allergic to EGGS... Eggs are in the shot. All peds have to do is to test for this before the blankly put eggs into a body of a little one with no way to get the eggs out.

In the end we endured, 6 plus weeks of rashes, sickness, vomiting, wheezing that would not go away with the nebulizer- All this from a kid who never had a rash or any allergies that we knew of BEFORE this shot.. Every was eating all sorts of stuff that never bothered her. Even stuff with eggs and wheat.

She now has to stay away from all EGGS, WHEAT, SOY, NUTS, SHELLFISH.

The worst of it too was that Avery began to have behavior changes and staring episodes that scared me to death.. She would leave what we were doing and stare for like 2 minutes and we could not rouse her. She has since recovered.

I have learned a lot about vaccinations, and antibiotics/vaccination combination since this ordeal. I have a new found respect for parents who say that something in a vaccination did harm their child. I now cannot vaccinate Avery for the MMR and maybe no future vaccinations.

They say the percentage of harm from a vaccine is small, but hey... when it's you it's 100%.

We will chance the measles, which are highly recoverable vs the chance that a vaccination will harm our child's brain. Autism. When children have a chance of 1 in 130 getting a diagnosis of Autism and you have thousands of parents tell the medical community what they are seeing and nobody listens.

I do believe that the combo of Avery's allergy and her prior antibiotic use prior to the shot caused her to have such problems.

It's funny how your peds office is there for you when you do what they say... but when there is a problem they hide. We wrote letters, told the peds office that we were here to stay and that we did not want to pushed off to other doctors, we asked them to file a VAERS form, they did and we also asked they to acknowledge that this shot caused these problems. We wrote the whole staff a letter and asked them to change their policy to telling parents it's completely safe and to test for egg allergies in children before they inject them with this shot.

In the end her doctor say that the rashes could be unrelated, that her allergies might have come out anyway, and that there are not studies to indicate such problems from the flu shot.. I told them to study Avery and that there are tons more people just like her... We are not really studying people like her b/c if we did... What would that do to the Flu Shot/ Pharma industry.

People would actually be able to think for themselves. Know the risks, get all the info before you take the chance in vaccinations.

I have inoculated all my kids prior to Avery, but on a modified schedule. Looking back the chicken pox shot is probably the reason our oldest got Pneumonia when she was 3- a complication of the chickenpox shot. I would also say that her Asthma and allergies could maybe also be a result of too many antibiotic and her vaccinations.

I am not saying that people should not vaccinate at all, I just want people to know that maybe they can don't have to get all the shots and maybe you can wait before you inoculate your little baby with something they have no chance of getting until they are older...

I was recently told that vaccinations are a way to keep populations disease free, but they are not safe for the individual. They may keep outbreaks at bay or even knock them out, but at what risk to the individual. All I am asking is let the parent decide if the risk of damage is worth the risk of a childhood illness.

This is one way to get the dishes done!

Oh, Where does the time go... Avery is on the go... no more time for the BLOG. Avery is 15 months and only in the 5th % for height and weight.. She's tiny... Lately though she is putting on come more chunk. Allergies seem to be in check, but she always has a runny nose. We stay away from all processed foods and anything with eggs or wheat in it. This leads to a very healthy diet.. the Zone diet for those if you who know what that is.. Getting fats in her is my biggest worry... Her speech seems to be progressing well at this point... she chatters and even now sings in her own cute way. New words popping up all the time. Early Intervention is coming out once a month b/c i begged they help me make sure she is on the right track for speech. Her palate seems to be functioning fine,. She has great suction and can even get drinks from a straw. She loves the outdoors and her new burley. I have put Avery on PROBIOTICS every day and since then she is doing wonderfully with no yeast in the diaper area and sleeps through the night... not until I put her on these. A friend turned me on to this therapy for kids who have had problems with yeast and have lots of antibiotics and or reactions to shots.... As promised me next blog will be about the dreaded reaction to the flu shot..... but first here are some recent pix!