I have been working with a mom and 6 week old exclusively breastfed infant who has had blood in BMs for 4 weeks off and on. At 3 weeks of age mom eliminated dairy and soy and has not had any in over 3 1/2 weeks. She also has had an overactive MER that is slowly getting under control by nursing on one breast for 3 feeding before switching to the onter and she has been using a breast sheild. I was away for a week and the pediatrician but the baby on Nutramigen. While the baby was on the formula, the blood disapeared from the BMS. Mom put the baby back on the breast and within 3 days there was blood back in the stools. Mom has eliminated peanut butter from her diet 2 days ago to see if that would be the offending food protein causing the colitis. We have r/o a pathological reason for the colitis. Mom wants to breast feed exclusively as she did her older child who incidently had blood in stools as infant but it resolved when momm stooped dairy. Does any one have suggestions on what could be causing the blood in stools? Would appreciate any input. Thanks Joy Motsiff PNP IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html