Hello,
I have a 3 week old son whose evening colic / crying has grown increasingly worse over the last week or so. When he's crying during these periods, he's obviously experiencing pain, and he's more gassy than usual. I've been reading up on potential causes or contributors to colic, and I'm beginning to suspect a dairy (or other) sensitivity. I have a few questions or observations about the signs I've observed, though, for you BTDT folks.
** Would a dairy sensitivity only cause evening colic / crying vs. all-day colic? My DS only cries from around 6:00pm until my DH or I go to bed with him (we cosleep), usually around 9-10pm. For some reason, once he's sound asleep, the colic stops. He does night have trouble with night wakening, though he does wake to nurse & go right back to sleep without incident.
** He's had a little red-dot rash around his anus for a week and a half or so; just in last 24 hours it suddenly became like "parentheses" along his booty cheeks. Looks very painful. Did this suddenly, though I wouldn't say my dairy had suddenly increased to coincide with it.
** I have seen a little green content in his stools, which otherwise look like typical EBF yellow, seedy stools. This green is barely noticeable, and only occasional.
** I definitely am a heavy dairy intaker. One of my most prevalent desired foods when I was pregnant was cereal/ milk -- couldn't get enough of it, it seemed (healthy cereal, though!), and this has continued through now. I also drink milk with dinner, which is another pregnancy-related quirk that has continued. My plan is to reduce my dairy first by cutting out these obvious heavy intakes; then go full elimination (e.g. all dairy and hidden dairy-related ingredients) if the reduction doesn't help. Then in a few weeks, I'll reintroduce to test it if it seems to have reduced his symptoms.
Any other suggestions / thoughts? I'm still feeling unsure whether this is appropriate. I do feel there are some signs of sensitivity, but it's hard just shooting in the dark at which food item it is that's causing it. I'm just trying to start out with the most common culprit.
As nutty as this is, I've also suspected that Lansinoh might be a sensitivity! There are times when I've used Lansinoh on my nipples and he's nursed right after, ingesting the sheep oil (Lanolin) right along with my milk. (He's had some latch issues that have contributed to my nipples continuing to be sore, but that's another post! We're working on it...) Who knows?
Thanks in advance for reading this long post...
I have a 3 week old son whose evening colic / crying has grown increasingly worse over the last week or so. When he's crying during these periods, he's obviously experiencing pain, and he's more gassy than usual. I've been reading up on potential causes or contributors to colic, and I'm beginning to suspect a dairy (or other) sensitivity. I have a few questions or observations about the signs I've observed, though, for you BTDT folks.
** Would a dairy sensitivity only cause evening colic / crying vs. all-day colic? My DS only cries from around 6:00pm until my DH or I go to bed with him (we cosleep), usually around 9-10pm. For some reason, once he's sound asleep, the colic stops. He does night have trouble with night wakening, though he does wake to nurse & go right back to sleep without incident.
** He's had a little red-dot rash around his anus for a week and a half or so; just in last 24 hours it suddenly became like "parentheses" along his booty cheeks. Looks very painful. Did this suddenly, though I wouldn't say my dairy had suddenly increased to coincide with it.
** I have seen a little green content in his stools, which otherwise look like typical EBF yellow, seedy stools. This green is barely noticeable, and only occasional.
** I definitely am a heavy dairy intaker. One of my most prevalent desired foods when I was pregnant was cereal/ milk -- couldn't get enough of it, it seemed (healthy cereal, though!), and this has continued through now. I also drink milk with dinner, which is another pregnancy-related quirk that has continued. My plan is to reduce my dairy first by cutting out these obvious heavy intakes; then go full elimination (e.g. all dairy and hidden dairy-related ingredients) if the reduction doesn't help. Then in a few weeks, I'll reintroduce to test it if it seems to have reduced his symptoms.
Any other suggestions / thoughts? I'm still feeling unsure whether this is appropriate. I do feel there are some signs of sensitivity, but it's hard just shooting in the dark at which food item it is that's causing it. I'm just trying to start out with the most common culprit.
As nutty as this is, I've also suspected that Lansinoh might be a sensitivity! There are times when I've used Lansinoh on my nipples and he's nursed right after, ingesting the sheep oil (Lanolin) right along with my milk. (He's had some latch issues that have contributed to my nipples continuing to be sore, but that's another post! We're working on it...) Who knows?
Thanks in advance for reading this long post...
(I'm drinking rice milk now.) Eggs were the next thing, and those are a really big allergen, so I would consider taking those out of your diet too if you eat a lot of them.
