Hi all,
I don't post often, but this one is beyond my knowledge and am hoping that
someone can give me information for this mom. I have her permission to
forward this part of her note.
TIA,
Laurie

>>We went to the emergency room (the day before she came down with the
horrible cold) with her turning blue and gasping for breath. She ended up
with an intususeption (intestinal blockage) and was almost helicoptered out
for emergency surgery. The problem was accidentaly corrected as our docter
did a last minute finger probe. Whew. What a frightening day that was. We
have friends whose daughter died from that, which made it a little more
painful.

Anna generally poops about once a week. Our doctor, who is normally
unconcerned with such things, was worried that that may have helped cause
the problem, and so wants to keep her "regular" from now on out...meaning
wants me to supplement her with a bottle of water and corn syrup every day.
Anna refuses to take it, but for whatever reason has begun pooping at every
feeding...which is sort of nice, I suppose.

Do you think the long bouts between BM's may have led to the intussuseption?
Do you know anything about them? Since she won't take the water, what is
something else I could give her to help keep her regular (if something is
needed, that is)?>>

I told her that longer intervals between bowel movements were not uncommon
in exclusively breastfed babies and told her that constipation would
produce dry, hard, pebble-like stools. Baby has gained and thrived well to
this point and she doesn't like the idea of giving a bottle every day. Baby
is 4 mo. old. There was a brief problem with nursing after the
hospitalization (mom didn't pump as often as she should have during that
few days--but who can blame the distraction?), but several days of "nursing
day and night" fixed that problem :-). No recent immunizations or anything
else new in the diet prior to this problem.

Thanks for the help!!!

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