What are these symptoms of?

Thank y’all so much. I considered foremilk/hindmilk imbalance because sometimes his bm’s are “darker.” They have only been bright green once. It is a possiblitity because the first 3 weeks, I EP’d. I could get between 6-8 oz per breast per pump. Now that I am EBF’ing, my production has gone way down. I know because I had to pump during his nursing strikes. We have only used one breast per feed since the beginning though. Since stopping the TED, the blood has not returned. Tomorrow will be a total of 1 week gone. The mucus is back but isn’t much. There are also now “seeds” since stopping. His gas is only occasionally stinky. This kid has me so confused. 🙂 FTM can’t you tell. Yesterday, we gave him a dose of prevacid. Again, he spit most of it out, but minutes after, he stopped screaming. He did not want to eat, sleep, lay down or be held. I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not. Then, I thought maybe he was teething because the fussiness came back at night. He has been chewing on everything, drooling a whole bunch and pacifiers from the freezer made him stop screaming. We tried teething tablets, but it didn’t seem to help. Sometimes I feel like nothing is wrong while other times I do. It could be anything or a combination of foremilk/hindmilk imbalance, teething, anal fissure, allergy/sensitivity, reflux, anxiety, normal baby fussiness and/or pacifier dependence (wakes up when it falls out sometimes). As far as reflux vs GI issues, idk. He spits up a couple times a day and throws his body towards the bed like in these videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lVYMKgNPo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxIRsvICrmM&feature=related

This is when different things started.

Birth to 3 weeks- I pumped and bottle fed. Sleeping was good. Didn’t burp very much. Had hiccups all the time. No other problems

5 weeks- mucus in bm’s. Went through a very fussy period I think because of not getting enough sleep.

6 weeks- sick.

6 weeks 4 days- mucus went away but came back, fussing, not nursing as much, not sleeping as good I believe during the day, gnawing on our fingers, slobbering, dry cough, slept almost 5 hours in a row.

7 weeks- started putting him down for naps when he first yawned, he was much happier.

9 weeks 2 days- pushed his feedings back from every hour to every 2 hours, slept 5 1/2 hours at night.

10 weeks- caught a cold, coughing, slobbering, increased bm’s, woke every 2 hours at night.

10 weeks 4 days- first blood tinged bm, greenish, happened periodically after this

11 weeks- 1st nursing strike that lasted 4 days, happened right after going to a stimulating public place, would drink from a bottle, stopped letting me nurse him sitting up, bm’s started to smell different and were “muddy” looking

12 weeks- finger chewing

13 weeks- greenish bm and blood again, dry cough

14 weeks- 2nd nursing strike, didn’t last as long, happened after crowded public place

14 weeks 4 days- bad cold, runny nose, sneezing, coughing

15 weeks 2 days- started TED, hard night, had to walk 3 hours to get to sleep

15 weeks 5 days- stopped TED

16 weeks 1 day- today, was really fussy yesterday and refused to eat for awhile again after going into a crowded public place

So what should I make of this all? Sorry it’s long, but I wanted to be as detailed as possible. Thank you again.

143mommy2010-06-14 16:25:54

How long does it take for the blood to go away?

I quit dairy only instead of the TED just to see if anything changed and the next day the blood stopped. This got me wondering if it was an allergy at all because that’s a little too quick. I saw where hellbennt said that it could be a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance. I started reading about it, and learned that it can cause blood in stools. I block fed today and started dairy again. No blood and I was able to rock my son to sleep for the first time in awhile. Maybe this is the answer. I’m praying. 🙂 I am still keeping a detailed journal. The diapers are more orangy yellow now with some seeds. I definitely know what you mean by the stinky gas. When he had blood, I could tell before even opening the diaper. Thank y’all for everything. I will let you know how the block feeding works. 143mommy2010-06-18 22:50:30