When we found out we were expecting our first little love. I stopped drinking caffeine, cleaned the house with products that were more natural, watched my sugar intake, did not eat hot dogs, made sure meat was cooked well done, watched my seafood intake, etc.
I became even more health conscious so to speak. Then our first little love was born, so we changed to a detergent that didn’t have dyes, paid closer attention to the toxins that surrounded us, etc.
Six months after she was born, on Christmas Eve to be exact. My body out of no where got inflamed. My tongue became extremely sore and swollen as if I burnt it. As the weeks progressed, I took note of how my joints were consistently sore and felt inflamed (since I had given birth actually) I had a tingling numbness off and on in my one leg too, my arms were always sore, my anxiety too was insane. Which who knew @ the time (because I did not) but I was going through postpartum depression (but that’s another post for another day) …
The list goes on and on, and to be honest I truly thought it was my body adjusting to having a baby, nursing her too, so blame it on hormones. After talking with a few of my besties, I decided to try going gluten free. I made it 4 weeks, well “kind of” (because I didn’t exactly know what gluten was at the time) Then we found out we were expecting our 2nd little love.
So, all the natural living came back into play. I ate gluten again though because my OBGYN encouraged me to do so … because she didn’t want me to eliminate gluten while baby was in utero because gluten would be foreign to her when she came out and it could cause problems.
After our next little love was born. I was doing okay. My body wasn’t as sore “yet anyways,” my tongue was still sore, but not insanely sore. I was nursing again, I just got over the flu, but over all I felt good, wasn’t where I was “at all” when we first had our first little love.
This is when I knew that something was different, why wasn’t I as sad, as nervous, anxiety driven? I mean I just battled the flu after giving birth, lost all pregnancy weight in the first 2 weeks of our 2nd little love being in this world … (it dawned on me, maybe with our first, I had postpartum depression š) I found out later that I did indeed have it, after I read up on all and the Doctors all discussed ppd with me.
I am not exactly sure where “all” my symptoms were when I decided to go gluten free. I do know that our little peanuts were maybe 2 and not even a year old. One night, I decided to throw a pizza in the oven because we were running out to church. I ate a slice, and boom tongue got inflamed and insanely sore.
I thought what in the world??? That’s it, no more!!! I decided to go gluten free, as in “entirely in” this time. I need to pause and say, “praise the Lord!” šš»
The Gluten Free Life, changed my life and this I will discuss more so in my Gluten Free Life page.
Back to natural living though, well I truly believe that gluten is a toxin and it is for certain in my life because I am intolerant and inconclusive to Celiac Disease but so much is pointing to Celiac.
People automatically assume that it’s just bread products and carbs that you’re eliminating, but that’s the ignorance that surrounds it. It’s not just the protein in gluten, it’s the way America processes it that’s the problem???
Say what??? Yes, America uses chemicals when growing gluten …
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