Gluten-free Nosebleeds

 

 These are my boys. I love them obsessively and unapologetically.

I think they are regular boys. They play, play, play some more. They make giant messes. They sometimes eat like elephants and they sometimes eat like mice. Whenever either one of them is just inconsolable in tears, we just go outside. It's my only secret. Secret of the parenting world. Screaming fits: outside. Heartbroken: outside. Bored: outside. Morning: outside. Being way too loud: outside. Rambunctious: outside. ........I think you see the pattern. 

They bring unreal joy to my life and unbelievable frustration. I never really thought I would have kids, but, like most parents, I can't imagine my life without them. 

Enough of that. 

Asher, sweet baby, is gluten free. Yesterday, for the first time in months (!!!), he found and ate a non-gluten-free food. He ate half a waffle. Before I noticed him happily chomping away, he had already eaten HALF of it! Ah! Do you know what that might do to his digestive system? I didn't. But it turns out, not that much. Long story short, he slept not well. Which means I didn't sleep well. But it could have been worse. 

This is what happened with Eli: one morning, bloody nose. That night, bloody nose, a bad one. It bled for an HOUR. He was terrified to go back to sleep lest he wake up covered in blood again. But sleep he did. Next day, THREE nosebleeds. Three? What the h is going on here? We are in Virginia and it is suuuuuuuuuper humid. I've been putting coconut oil in his nostrils before bed to add moisture....it seems to be working? Haven't had one in two days. Oh, and my friend told me I was stopping the nosebleeds wrong. All this time! So here is how.

It was been more than eventful. 
And I am tired. 
Oh, yah, and pregnant.