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Pertinant facts:
Baby is almost 14 months
Mom has Celiac Disease (and it appears that baby does
too).
Mom is essentially malnourished and is eating a bunch
of "superfoods" to improve her nutrition.
Mom has been vegetarian since she was 5 (now 24), very
averse to introducing meat into her diet.
Baby has severe eczema.
Naturopath has suggested weaning baby.
Mom does not want to wean yet.

See full email below for more info. I'd appreciate any
assistance on this one. It seems counter-intuitive to
me to remove breastfeeding as a nutrition source when
the baby is having these issues.

Thanks!
Samantha
LLLL

The person that we are working with around the celiac
disease says that I need to wean my daughter because
she is reacting to foods that I am eating, such as ALL
seeds, all nightshades, nuts, etc. I am not even
eating nuts but she would react if I did.

To understand this fully, you have to understand that
when someone has celiac disease it makes them more
sensitive to foods that they normally wouldn't be
until they heal. Foods that I need to eat and can eat,
like hemp seeds.. chia seeds.... tahini.. even
chickpea... My daughter is reacting to. She has rashes
really bad, to the point where she has a hard time
even sleeping at night b/c she itches. Her rashes got
better after we stopped the gluten, but they didn't go
away completely and she had another flare-up b/c we
gave her chia seed.

I started crying. This feels like my heart has broken
into tiny pieces and now someone is stomping on them.
I don't know if I can do this but I don't know what
else to do. I am SO depleted in vitamins and minerals
b/c I was celiac my whole life and didn't know it. I'm
not getting enough and My daughter is taking what I do
get from my breastmilk. That's another aspect of it
too.

I want to nurse My daughter until she is ready..
child-led weaning, that was mine and dh's plan before
My daughter was born.. before we were pregnant. I
don't even know if I can wean her. I just don't know
if I can do it... That is what I do, I nurse My
daughter. We have had so many challenges, all these
rashes, etc, that nursing for us is everything. It is
what we do. She has been on my breastmilk and nothing
else basically for 13.5 months b/c it seemed anything
we gave her made her rash worse too. She'll be 14
months on the 28th.

She says she needs to be eating vegetables to heal and
that she can't even handle the seeds, etc through my
milk much less directly.

What do I do..She says she's never recommended this
and doesn't want to recommend it.

Nursing is our life. It is what calms her... it is
what helps her sleep at night... when she wakes up 6+
times because she's itching... she nurses back to
sleep... My mom nursed me until I was two, until I was
ready to wean. This is natural to me.. that's whats
right.

I am so sad. I don't know what to do



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