Success!!

That's right. The last four nights have been fantastic! Thali has still been a real pain to get to sleep but once she's asleep she has been waking once between 3-4am for a feed and falling straight back to sleep.
We can brush our teeth, flush the toilet and go to bed without waking her. Rhys can get up and ready for work without waking her. It is truely amazing. Whether it is the diet or she has just grown out of it, I don't know. But, to be honest, I don't care either! We have sleep.

Now we need to work out how to get her to go to sleep easier and things would start looking really good. At the moment I still can't get her to sleep, so usually she has her day sleeps in the car. I would love to be able to stay home one day, put her in her cot and have a whole entire hour to do what I like. (Probably sleep!)

This success has come just in time, the thought of another egg sandwich, pancake or french toast is making me feel ill. The feeling of hunger makes me depressed as the options are getting very, very boring. Dinner isn't too bad, but I have always been bad at deciding what to have for lunch and this makes it a whole lot worse. A cup of tea or glass of wine would be heaven right about now. Avocado, chocolate and carrots are also high up the list. I'm not going to delude myself, there is still a long way to go before I am free to eat what I like, but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel and that is something.

We have decided that if Thali is still sleeping well by Sunday we will try to re-introduce something. We're not sure what yet as we haven't done much reading on the challenges, but something.

We have an appointment with the Royal Children's Hospital allergy unit next Wednesday. A referral was sent months ago, before we had considered failsafe, as we knew tomato was playing havoc with her (she would get rashy) and thought we might as well go speak to them to see if they could offer any solutions. I am hoping like crazy that they are supportive of the failsafe diet and will give us some support. We then have our next appointment with the dietician the following Monday.

Rhys has decided to stop the diet. He hasn't seen any great effects in his own health and irritable bowl symptoms. He is pretty sure his triggers are coffee and alcohol - two things his not willing to give up. But it is only he that needs to deal with those consequences. He asked me to get him some ham at the supermarket, I asked if he wanted apples and tomatoes too. He said only if it won't drive you crazy having them in the fridge. He still fully intends to continue the failsafe diet at home. Having a physically demanding job and high metabolism he was finding the diet a bit hard to stick to at work. As long as he doesn't start drinking wine and eating carrots, I have no problem. I know he will still support Thali and I with the diet wholeheartedly.

Tonight we have a babysitter. The first person to ever attempt to put Thali to bed. I fully trust Jen to not get flustered, not let Thali get too upset and call us when she decides it is just not going to happen. We will all have dinner together and bath Thali. Rhys and I will then head out for half an hour and leave Jen to do her thing. If she's not asleep by then Rhys will put her to sleep and then we'll go out for a few hours. If she wakes Jen will try to resettle. Hopefully, the night won't be too stressful for Thali, Jen or us!