Uh yeah...
well, DD had soy formula for the first
72 hours of her life, and never again.
I should also explain that we were
already concerned about FA's because of family hx of them, but nursing staff apparently didn't look at our "plan" (that the hospital made such a big deal about going to the trouble of making before her birth, tyvm
)
so in the first 12 hours,
I was given... (wait for it... wait for it)
peanut-butter-crackers after she was finally born late at night)...
and they DID NOT return her to nurse until the following morning, at which time she
refused to nurse at all.Seriously-- they weren't going to let us leave the hospital with her because she wasn't eating. So they supplemented her with SOY... (again...) though we were really not happy about it.
Guess what else they were feeding me? RIGHT. Egg and milk. In abundance.
No wonder she wouldn't eat. Her skin was
gorgeous AT birth... but by the time we left for home, not-so-much-- rashy/hivey, angry and eczemic.
We truly believe that she was food allergic from birth. The only real question mark was
what to. She wasn't wheat allergic then, at least... and we're pretty sure that she wasn't soy-allergic (THEN) either-- both of those came later, like the tree nuts. Egg, milk, and peanut, though? Yeah. Right from the get-go, I now think.
As others have said--
let go of the guilt.