Well, I did the elim­i­na­tion diet for a few days, and I saw no results. I ate only chicken and rice. To be hon­est, I don’t even really like chicken all that well (unless it’s a spicy chicken sand­wich from Wendy’s with mayo on it), and now the thought of that chicken makes me a lit­tle queasy. Yuck.

So, for­tu­nately, it appears that A does not have food aller­gies (other than the pre­vi­ously men­tioned dairy allergy or sen­si­tiv­ity). This means he won’t have to spend his life ana­lyz­ing every bite that enters his mouth and won­der­ing if he is going to have reac­tion or if it will be okay. I won’t have to dress him in a shirt that say, “I have severe food aller­gies. Please ask my mommy before you give me any food” at fam­ily gatherings.

Unfor­tu­nately, we really don’t have any leads on the fussi­ness, rest­less­ness, or lack of sleep. I feel like I’m walk­ing a line. On one hand, if there’s some­thing that is wrong and both­er­ing him, I want to know. On the other hand, if he’s sim­ply not a good sleeper, and he never will be, I hate to drag him from one appoint­ment to another, from one diet to another, and from one tech­nique to another. I guess I have to decide at what point I just need to sit back and be okay with not know­ing why he doesn’t sleep and why he cries. That’s a hard thing for a mom though.