Tummy Problems

My Mom Doesn't Want Your Advice!

I saw this onesie at Target the other day and HAD to have it! Since having my second child with "colic" issues, the advice about how to handle her still keeps coming! Even from complete strangers while standing in line at the grocery store! But I digress... After repeated visits to her pediatrician and Amelia was still spitting up what seemed to me an enormous amount of formula, continued crying bouts from stomach aches and uncontrolled constipation, I decided to do a lot more digging into the reflux issue.  I was convinced that Amelia was allergic, or at least intolerant, to milk. However I thought is was due to the lactose in milk. So I put her on soy formula. Her tummy issues continued, although not as bad, but her urine started smelling so very strong! Almost pure ammonia! She even peed actual urea nitrate crystals that we thought was blood in her urine. Also come to find out, soy proteins are even harder to digest than cow's milk proteins. Soy is also an abrasive for the bladder and ended up being part of our problem for urine smell.

Then Grandma took matters into her own hands and talked with a nutrition guru at a local health food store who convinced her (and sold her) rice milk and coconut water to soothe her gut and get her system cleared out. After a weekend of throwing up a lot of mucous (the health food lady said it was necessary to get "rid of the old") and going through a whole container of rice milk, I made an appointment with a pediatric gastroenterologist and picked up a container of goat's milk. Goat's milk is thought to be (according to well intentioned older ppl.) the best form of gentle milk for babies. I already knew from listening to my doctor that goat's milk does not provide all the necessary proteins, fats, etc. for babies to thrive, but at this point, I'm willing to try anything!

With God's help, we'll make it through to our GI appointment!