Not gonna lie, this is hard.
Hannah couldn't keep anything down for the first half of the day. I called my mom (who is very supportive about us doing this) and she suggested that we probably will have to bribe her to eat until we get through the hardest part of this. After promising her a trip to the toy section at Walmart, she willingly allowed me to feed her. But she has struggled with nausea all afternoon, even after eating 15-20 bites of soup. She and Audrey have been sensitive to honey in the past, but it occurred to me that it is a quick way to bring up her blood sugar and it's legal on the diet. So she got a few drops of honey on her tongue and in some ginger tea. Then she went right to sleep and took a 2 hour nap.
Things are touch and go again at this point and I need to get more soup into her but she's very nauseated. I decided to give both of them a few pecans, which they really enjoy. I've been eating spoonfuls of almond butter 3-4 times a day and it seems to keep my blood sugar more stable - just enough carbs. So hopefully that will work for them and I can get them some soup again.
I'm having some die off reaction this afternoon - dull pain in my lower back and legs and some digestive upset. I may wait another few days before doing whey in our soup again. I also made some really good coconut kefir and had to have a taste of it so that may have made the die off happen a little too fast.
My house is a disaster, but it's all I can do to keep people fed and messes cleaned up. Taking it one hour at a time...
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