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"Marita Nickison, RN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Winnie's post:
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 Subject: cramps and diarrhea while nursing

Had a mom tell me this yesterday and it really threw me.  Has anyone
else run across this and is there any explanation or anything mom can do
to avoid it?  Baby is 5 weeks old.  7 times in the 5 weeks mom has noticed
cramping (which she originally thought was uterine) followed by diarrhea
while nursing.  She has not experienced this at any other times and believes
it directly connects with the nursing. Any ideas?
.........

I checked the archives for my post from February 2001:
The posts about the itching armpits reminded me of another interesting
letdown experience - diarrhea.  In the first few weeks postpartum, with all
three kids, I frequently had to go running to the toilet with baby either
attached in the sling or screaming at being put down just when the milk was
beginning to flow.  This happened as soon as letdown occurred.  I never said
anything about it to anyone.  (And here I am shouting it from the rooftops.)
At a conference for IBCLCs, one mentioned that she had a client who vomited
with letdown in the early days.  Then, in this room of 50, 3 others popped
up and said that they had had clients who had diarrhea.  We surmised that it
was the oxytocin(?).  I felt much better knowing that it had happened to
others.  I did a search in the archives and didn't find any matches.


Anyone else?  How common might this be?  Is it the oxytocin? If someone
else hadn't mentioned it, I certainly wouldn't have volunteered it.
Diarrhea certainly isn't a normal subject of conversation.  (Although I do
have some vague memory of a really funny joke about an elephant with
diarrhea...)As for avoiding it, I tried fiber and something else I can't
remember.  The only thing that seemed to work was "tincture of time".

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