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It doesn’t look like much all set out on the table here, but I’ve been gathering information and ingredients to start the GAPS intro for the past couple weeks. I have, a bowl of my crockpot chicken, GAPS Guide, Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Breaking the Vicious Cycle
from the library, glass jars of chicken stock (what the intro portion of the diet is based on), milk-free sauerkraut, a jar to keep the fat from the chicken in, fish oil, cod liver oil, bio-kult probiotic, an immersion blender for making blended soups, Klean Kanteen (the only way I’ve gotten my little one to ‘eat’ soup), and some organic broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower.
The GAPS Intro is outlined here. I would rather hold real books in my hand than only have them on the web, so I bought the GAPS Guide, which does have the introduction diet in it and I’m using that. I read through the website before deciding to buy the books, though.
GAPS starts out with a diet based on meat and veggie soup, and slowly adds in other easily digestible foods (no grains, though, for a long time). The idea is that it gives the gut nourishing healing foods, and allows it to repopulate good flora (the kind of bacteria in yogurt and lactofermented veggies), which helps our digestion and absorption of nutrients, as well as keeping nutrients that aren’t broken down all the way from passing through to the bloodstream prematurely. I think it’s fascinating. It’s almost like setting the ‘reset button’ on your gut flora after a lifetime of antibiotics and toxins. I’m curious to see how it works, I’d love to get rid of my milk allergy, and maybe even improve my handwriting (which looks like chicken scratch- thought to be related to dyslexia) and spelling ability (I rely heavily on spell check).
My baby is nearly a year now, and I’ll continue to nurse him through GAPS. It’s supposed to be more baby-friendly than other cleanses, more gentle, so I think we’ll be okay. Of course if I see any bad symptoms in him, I’ll go ahead and stop.
Feel free to ask questions in the comment section. I’m not an expert in GAPS at all, but I have been reading quite a bit about it lately. I’ll most likely be posting about non-GAPS related things during this since the diet is very simple and not a lot to blog about 
More:
Books I’ve been reading recently
A post here and here by Kelly on GAPS.
Kelly is also hosting a giveaway for a premium water filter.
Chicken Stock is nourishing and warm, whether you’re doing GAPS this winter or not. Here are pictures and instructions.
Keeper of the Home wrote about a different cleanse that she was doing over here, must be the season!
[...] down below General info:An overview, and what I got together to Start GAPSHow we modified the intro because I felt it was too low carb My guest post at Cheeseslave’s [...]
[...] We eat breakfast-for-dinner pretty often. I finally tried making beef sausage because it was a breakfast-kind-of-night and I had some beef thawed in the fridge. I used 2 lbs of beef at first and the recipe on page 364 of Nourishing Traditions for Spicy Lamb Sausage, minus the sundried tomatoes and pepper (that I didn’t have) and bread crumbs (not on GAPS). [...]
I have had severe digestive problems with food ever since I had a breakdown 3 years ago. I was also suffering from TMJ which had not been diagnosed & was taking aspirin every 2 hours from months for the pain. Before this I had celiac disease, was lactose intollerant, and also stayed away from corn, but I was doing quite well. After this, many of the things I could eat before, including a little tomato began to really upset my stomach. I started the Intro diet with 1 tsp of saurkraut juice (and have been taking a probiotic before I started) for 3 days & now my stomach feels on fire. I haven’t done any of the rest of the diet (the bone broth). Also I have quite a rash. SHould I cut the saurkraut juice to 1/4 tsp. or stop for a bit?