I've spent some time reading that monster elimination thread, which was a big help, but I still don't know what to do.
History: I started to suspect that my daughter had silent reflux, possibly due to my dairy consumption, around Dec. 12. She was about 7 wks old then. So, I cut out dairy. She stopped 'ulp-ing' and 'urp-ing', stopped the sour spit-up, and her baby acne disappeared. All good. But it seems like ever since I cut out the dairy, she's had slimy snot-poo. Which just seems so weird to me.
I recently started to wonder if she can't handle the trace amounts of soy that I had a couple of times, so I started being really careful about additives in the few pre-packaged things I eat. I gave her some probiotics, which the saleslady said were okay for a non-dairy baby, but she's having some allergy ring on her bottom, so I'm going to stop giving her that, and just take it myself in the hopes that she'll get something good from me. I think she may have had allergy-ring from the soy in my Thai food, too.
I just feel like her diapers aren't right, and that I need to tweak something to figure out why her poo is mucous-y. And why did the mucous only start after I cut out dairy? Is it because I started to use coconut milk? I decided last night to do total elimination, to see if I can get her poo back to how it was before (yellow, seedy). I started today, eating only turkey, chicken, rice, potatoes.
I don't know if I'm being too picky, since apart from her diapers, she's a delight. She has the most beautiful skin I've ever seen, rarely fusses, doesn't spit up, sleeps well, is developing really well. She's twelve weeks old, and rolls both ways, laughs, loves to look at us and talk to us, etc. She is not as chubby as my first two were at this age; she's just under thirteen pounds, birth weight 7.7-ish. Her brother and sister had already doubled their BW by this point.
My spidey sense is telling me that her diapers are a sign that all is not well. My neuroses are making me wonder if she's smaller because the mucous is keeping her from absorbing optimal nutrition from my milk. But, maybe she's just smaller because she's so active.
I don't know what to do! I'm just going to keep going with my version of the TED (I put maple syrup in my rice) for one week, see where we're at, and then slowly start to add in. I don't think I'll add dairy back, though. But don't you all think it's weird that her poo was gorgeous on dairy, but all slimy now?
Can I keep taking my fish oil? Is it silly for me to put myself through the spartan misery of TED just because I want her to poo better? I'm all turned around...
Ayuda me, por favor?
History: I started to suspect that my daughter had silent reflux, possibly due to my dairy consumption, around Dec. 12. She was about 7 wks old then. So, I cut out dairy. She stopped 'ulp-ing' and 'urp-ing', stopped the sour spit-up, and her baby acne disappeared. All good. But it seems like ever since I cut out the dairy, she's had slimy snot-poo. Which just seems so weird to me.
I recently started to wonder if she can't handle the trace amounts of soy that I had a couple of times, so I started being really careful about additives in the few pre-packaged things I eat. I gave her some probiotics, which the saleslady said were okay for a non-dairy baby, but she's having some allergy ring on her bottom, so I'm going to stop giving her that, and just take it myself in the hopes that she'll get something good from me. I think she may have had allergy-ring from the soy in my Thai food, too.
I just feel like her diapers aren't right, and that I need to tweak something to figure out why her poo is mucous-y. And why did the mucous only start after I cut out dairy? Is it because I started to use coconut milk? I decided last night to do total elimination, to see if I can get her poo back to how it was before (yellow, seedy). I started today, eating only turkey, chicken, rice, potatoes.
I don't know if I'm being too picky, since apart from her diapers, she's a delight. She has the most beautiful skin I've ever seen, rarely fusses, doesn't spit up, sleeps well, is developing really well. She's twelve weeks old, and rolls both ways, laughs, loves to look at us and talk to us, etc. She is not as chubby as my first two were at this age; she's just under thirteen pounds, birth weight 7.7-ish. Her brother and sister had already doubled their BW by this point.
My spidey sense is telling me that her diapers are a sign that all is not well. My neuroses are making me wonder if she's smaller because the mucous is keeping her from absorbing optimal nutrition from my milk. But, maybe she's just smaller because she's so active.
I don't know what to do! I'm just going to keep going with my version of the TED (I put maple syrup in my rice) for one week, see where we're at, and then slowly start to add in. I don't think I'll add dairy back, though. But don't you all think it's weird that her poo was gorgeous on dairy, but all slimy now?
Can I keep taking my fish oil? Is it silly for me to put myself through the spartan misery of TED just because I want her to poo better? I'm all turned around...
Ayuda me, por favor?
For her, I thought perhaps she had reflux until I figured out she was allergic to corn. Then all her fountains of sour spit up stopped completely. But her diapers never improved and she is very high needs...it could be her personality or it could be something going on. 
: and it only had cocoa and soy in it as ingredients and she started spitting up. I'm guessing it was the soy but it could have been the chocolate...that's what I get for slipping up I guess.
