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I ♥ Sriracha Sauce

I haven't craved much spicy foods since I got pregnant (the horror!), and I have continued to stay away from the stuff while breastfeeding. That being said, I am a connoisseur of spice/hot sauces and my all-time favorite remains sriracha sauce. It is precisely for this reason that I believe this updated food pyramid to be awesome: Source: The Sriracha Cookbook Blog. Via Angry Asian Man. ...

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Trying to Do What’s Best

Claire has had thrush on and off for about a month now, (I don't know why doctors prescribe Nystatin when it only works in about 50% of thrush cases) and it looks like it's spread to my boobs too. So now I am battling both thrush and mastitis. Perhaps I had thrush first which caused the mastitis? Or did my weakened immune system from the mastitis help the thrush thrive in my breasts? Either way, I'm friggin exhausted, in pain all the time, and I can barely hold my own baby due to anything even remotely brushing against my nipples or right breast causing red, hot searing pain throughout my chest. Yesterday I got a bottle of grapefruit seed extract oil and have been treating...

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