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Princess Tater Tot slept through the night last night!  Hallelujah!  Of course I woke up multiple times but at least I did not have to get my aching Mommy Body up and rock her for two hours.  What a bonus, huh?  It was soooo nice to sleep!  And she went down for her first nap as usual: talking herself to sleep.  She didn’t even want me to rock her!  What the…?  I put on the “sleepytime tunes” and she leaned over to her crib.  I tried to keep rocking her because she has done this before and when I put her down she screams like a banshee.  Well, not today!  She kept leaning over so I put her down, kissed her forehead and said “Mommy loves you.  Have a good sleep.”  She cried when she realized that I was leaving the room but then she just started talking to herself and playing with Tigger.  We may even have a shot at getting out of the house on time without major drama to get to my doctor’s appointment!  Imagine that.

Hopefully today I will get a referral to an Ear, Nose, and Throat doc to look further into the vertigo deal and see if there are other options than “drug yourself so you’re too tired to function.”  Luckily this only happens every 2-3 months but still!  In my humble opinion, that’s 2-3 months too often for this Mommy.

On an unrelated note, I have started to try the Blood Type Diet.  Not to lose weight although that would be an added bonus.  It’s a very interesting concept and I got into it because my sister was told that she may have another autoimmune disorder (all the women in my family have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis).  So she’s trying the diet too.  I had looked into it before but hadn’t really tried to stick to it before.  This diet in particular talks about certain foods producing reactions in your body that cause your immune system to attack the body.  Well, we don’t need that, do we?  For my blood type it suggests avoiding wheat, corn, white potatoes along with a ton of other stuff.  But it reccomends a high protein, low carb diet which I already was used to doing.  It’s pretty easy to follow because I’m already used to shopping at the health food store and I’ve become pretty interested in alternative types of foods in recent years.  For instance, instead of ice cream I’m eating Rice Dream made out of rice milk.  Is it as good as ice cream?  No.  Does it satisfy the sweet craving? Yes.  Occasionally I’ll still have ice cream but until I do, this tides me over.  Another example is using rice flour pasta instead of whole wheat or regular pasta.  It feels good to know that I’m taking good care of myself so that I’ll be around a long time for The Tot.