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Milk, It Does a Body Good...

...or not. Sawyer's disposition in the first two weeks was easy going. He really only cried when getting his diaper changed. This kid does not like to be naked for sure! However, in the past week and a half he's become increasingly fussy and gassy. We initially thought it was due to a shallow latch and he was getting too much air while breast feeding. After a desperate trip to a La Leche League meeting (which was amazingly helpful), we think we have that problem worked out. However, the fussy/gassy didn't go away. So we started going down a list. Currently all signs point to a sensitivity to some sort of food that I am eating. So we've started an elimination diet. I am currently off all dairy and coffee/caffeine. As cold as it's been, I am really missing my coffee/chai in the mornings and afternoons. But most studies show that milk/dairy is the biggest cause of sensitivities in breast milk and 1 in 3 "colicky babies" merely have a dairy sensitivity. So far we haven't seen an improvement, but most of the literature I've read says that it can take 2-3 weeks and we are still on week one.



In other news this baby is growing. Sawyer was 8lbs even at birth and only lost 5oz in the days afterwards. Within his first week he was back up to birth weight. At 2 weeks he was 8lbs 7oz and is now over 9lbs. He has been nursing constantly this week. When I say constantly, I mean, he takes 10-15 min breaks between nursing, FOR HOURS. We saw a pediatrician for his first check up this past week and she said that most babies gain 0.5-1.0 oz in weight per day. Sawyer gained almost 13oz in the past 7 days. So he is definitely going through a growth spurt!

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  1. GesciJanuary 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM

    My sister was allergic to cow milk (I think she got nasty rashes and hives) when she was little, so my parents got some goats... but she got over it sometime around age 5.
    But her second kid (human!) is SEVERELY allergic to cow milk, and she's 3.5 and her reaction from birth has been much worse than Rebekah's, so they just got goats.
    My family has a strange response to things.
    But good luck; I have an idea from listening to Rebekah just how hard it is to go off of a major food group, and she was lucky in being nearly certain it was dairy the second Quinn started reacting as an infant.
    Also, yay blog!

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