Some people are just better people than me.

I'm not a mean or selfish person but man...sometimes the selflessness of others blows me away. There is a mom in my due date/birth month group that is doing something so amazing for another mom in the group that I had to share.

There is a little monkey in our group that has a lot of dietary sensitivities--including but not limited to:
Soy
Milk
Wheat
Corn
Bananas
Pineapple.

He has had trouble gaining weight and his mom has been struggling. Since breastfeeding wasn't an option for them, she's been struggling to find a formula he wasn't allergic to--especially since so many have soy. She's tried everything...and I mean everything...including a homemade formula with a coconut milk base. His allergies were making life miserable for all.

Then---lo and behold, another mom from our group offered to help out. Not only is she pumping extra milk and shipping it across country....but to make her milk free of any allergens, she has totally removed anything with dairy, corn, wheat, soy etc. At the bottom is a list of some of things she has to avoid or look for on labels to avoid.

Anyway--she's avoided these things for three weeks and has pumped milk to send him. The first shipment just went into the mail yesterday! What an amazing selfless act to change your entire diet/lifestyle for someone else's baby.....a baby she's never met and a mom she's never met.

I've been stalking the tracking number all day!

Amazing!

Some people are just better people than me.


Things that this amazing woman has eliminated:

Milk-free diet:

Avoid foods that contain milk or any of these ingredients

Artificial butter flavor
Butter, butter fat, butter oil
Buttermilk
Casein (Casein hydrolysate)
Caseinates (in all forms)
Cheese
Cream
Cottage Cheese
Curds
Custard
Ghee
Half & Half
Lactalbumin, Lactalbumin phosphate
Lactoferrin
Lactulose
Milk (in all forms including condensed, derivaitive, dry, evaporated, goat's milk and milk from other animals, low-fat, malted, milkfat, non-fat, powder, protein, skimmed, solids, whole)
Nisin
Nougat
Pudding
Recaldent
Rennet Casein
Sour Cream, Sour cream solids
Sour milk solids
Whey (in all forms)
Yogurt

May indicate the presence of milk protein:

Caramel Candies
Chocolate
Flavorings (natural & artificial)
High protein flour
Lactic acid starter culture
Lactose
Luncheon meat, hot dogs, sausages
Margarine
Non-dairy products

Wheat-free diet:

Avoid foods that contain wheat or any of these ingredients

Bran
Bread Crumbs
Bulgur
Club Wheat
Couscous
Cracker Meal
Durum
Einkorn
Emmer
Farina
Flour (all purpose, bread, cake, durum, enriched, graham, high gluten, high protein, instant, pastry, self-rising, soft wheat, steel ground, stone ground, whole wheat)
Gluten
Kamut
Matzoh, matzoh meal (also spelled as matzo)
Pasta
Seitan
Semolina
Spelt
Triticale
Vital Gluten
Wheat (bran, germ, gluten, malt, sprouts)
Wheat Grass
Whole Wheat Berries

May indicate the presence of wheat protein:

Flavoring (natural & artificial)
Hydrolyzed Protein
Soy Sauce
Starch (gelatinized starch, modified starch, modified food starch, vegetable starch, wheat starch)
Surimi

Soy-free diet

Avoid all foods that contain soy or any of these ingredients:

Edamame
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
Miso
Natto
Shoyu Sauce
Soy (Soy albumin, Soy fiber, Soy flour, Soy grits, Soy Lecithin, Soy Milk, Soy Nuts, Soy Oils, Soy Sprouts)
Soya
Soybean (curd, granules)
Soy Protein (concentrate, isolate)
Soy sauce
Tamari
Tempeh
Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)
Tofu

May indicate the presence of soy protein:

Asian Cuisine
Flavoring (natural & artificial)
Vegetable Broth
Vegetable Gum
Vegetable Oil
Vegetable Starch

Corn-Free Diet:

Avoid all foods that contain corn or any of these ingredients:

Baking powder (barb said this was ok to use in baking the amount that would make it to ur breastmilk shouldn't affect him)
Corn
Corn alcohol
Corn flour
Cornstarch
Corn sweetener
Corn syrup solids
Cornmeal
Grits
Hominy
Maize

May indicate the presence of corn protein:

Food starch
Modified food starch
Vegetable gum
Vegetable starch

Umm....yeah....that's a heck-load of things.