I am having some issues with my 12 month old DD.
She had pretty bad reflux until she was about 3 months. Her poops have always (every.single.last.one) been watery, green, mucousy, and on three occasions contained a streak or two of blood. When she was about 2 months or so I cut out dairy for almost 6 months. These are some improvements I saw:
Her skin didnt break out into little spots anymore (these spots were on her face after she ate and lasted about an hour or two.)
No more streaks of blood in her stool. But her stool was STILL completely messed up tho during the no dairy time, super runny, green, mucousy. Literally globs of mucous in them.
She was waking up at night only twice, nursed and went back to sleep, but she had been a fair sleeper since she was born so there was really no change there.
When she was about 8 months I went on dairy again. She seemed fine, no change. Then at 9.5 months she stopped sleeping well. She has been waking up 6 times a night since then, and she is now 12 1/2 months old. I am so exhausted. She fusses at me most of the day and rarely takes a single nap all day. Some of it is normal separation anxiety stuff, like I cant get up and walk to the bathroom, but even when I am sitting right there next to her it seems like she is screaming at me. She is 25 lbs., so not skinny, and eats almost only breastmilk. She has an occasional bite of food, a banana, a little cheerio type cereal, literally maybe 4 pieces a day (her not wanting to eat is a seperate issue I am looking into. Also, she often gags on any solid food. I think its more of a sensory thing.) The two or three times she has eated a little more than 4 bites of food the food seemed to be completely undigested in her stool.
She sleeps from 8 to about 7 and wakes up an average of 6 times. I have thought of teething since she has gotten teeth during this time, but there is literally no break, she has been waking up 6 times a night every single night for over 3 months. About three weeks ago I stopped dairy again for a week but got discouraged bc I didnt see even the slightest change in her during the day. My first thought is to obviously start with cutting out all dairy again.
Why were her poops still messed up when I was off dairy for so long when she was a little younger? Also, I am vegetarian, so the sensitivity isnt coming from any meat type foods. She has some Keratosis Pilaris on her cheeks, arms and legs and her cheeks are very red and vascular looking often times, I dont think she has any true eczema tho.
She has been on Klare Labs Infant Probiotic since she was about 3 months old, Carlsons Vit.D3 and just started Nordic Naturals fish oil last week.
At what age could she get an allergy test and get a true result?
She had pretty bad reflux until she was about 3 months. Her poops have always (every.single.last.one) been watery, green, mucousy, and on three occasions contained a streak or two of blood. When she was about 2 months or so I cut out dairy for almost 6 months. These are some improvements I saw:
Her skin didnt break out into little spots anymore (these spots were on her face after she ate and lasted about an hour or two.)
No more streaks of blood in her stool. But her stool was STILL completely messed up tho during the no dairy time, super runny, green, mucousy. Literally globs of mucous in them.
She was waking up at night only twice, nursed and went back to sleep, but she had been a fair sleeper since she was born so there was really no change there.
When she was about 8 months I went on dairy again. She seemed fine, no change. Then at 9.5 months she stopped sleeping well. She has been waking up 6 times a night since then, and she is now 12 1/2 months old. I am so exhausted. She fusses at me most of the day and rarely takes a single nap all day. Some of it is normal separation anxiety stuff, like I cant get up and walk to the bathroom, but even when I am sitting right there next to her it seems like she is screaming at me. She is 25 lbs., so not skinny, and eats almost only breastmilk. She has an occasional bite of food, a banana, a little cheerio type cereal, literally maybe 4 pieces a day (her not wanting to eat is a seperate issue I am looking into. Also, she often gags on any solid food. I think its more of a sensory thing.) The two or three times she has eated a little more than 4 bites of food the food seemed to be completely undigested in her stool.
She sleeps from 8 to about 7 and wakes up an average of 6 times. I have thought of teething since she has gotten teeth during this time, but there is literally no break, she has been waking up 6 times a night every single night for over 3 months. About three weeks ago I stopped dairy again for a week but got discouraged bc I didnt see even the slightest change in her during the day. My first thought is to obviously start with cutting out all dairy again.
Why were her poops still messed up when I was off dairy for so long when she was a little younger? Also, I am vegetarian, so the sensitivity isnt coming from any meat type foods. She has some Keratosis Pilaris on her cheeks, arms and legs and her cheeks are very red and vascular looking often times, I dont think she has any true eczema tho.
She has been on Klare Labs Infant Probiotic since she was about 3 months old, Carlsons Vit.D3 and just started Nordic Naturals fish oil last week.
At what age could she get an allergy test and get a true result?
. I told him about her sleep, etc., and of course he said he thinks she just wants to be close to me (insert groan here.) I am with her 24/7 and we co-sleep. I can see her waking up here and there just to want to be close to me, but not 6 times a night without skipping a night for 3+ months, yk? He ordered bloodwork for her to test for intollerances to foods, I believe the list was corn, wheat, dairy, chicken, soy, fish and maybe one other thing. I am skeptical about the results bc I have heard from so many people that the tests are not accurate this young, right?
