Hello!

I have a mom who is absolutely going crazy and I'm afraid she may defect to
ABM if I can't offer something concrete QUICK!

She's a G2P2; breastfed 1st baby 18 months; delivered 2nd baby 5 weeks ago at
37 weeks gestation.  Baby weighed 5-10 at birth and is thriving beautifully;
no problems at all with nursing.  The problem this mom is having is that the
baby passes a tremendous amount of small stools of normal color and
consistency for a breastfed baby.  She reports that in a typical 24 hour
period the baby soils at least 20 diapers.  the baby has thus developed a
terribly sore bottom so every time she has a BM she wakens needing to be
changed.  Pedi had mom eliminate dairy from her diet, to no avail, caffeine
{admittedly a far reach}, to no avail, and finally had mom give baby one
bottle of soy formula which, guess what...worked wonders!  The baby after one
bottle had only four good sized BM's in the next 24 hour period.

This mom does not want to feed her baby formula but also wants her baby's
bottom to clear up as well as getting needed sleep {mom, too!}.  She's been
assured by her pedi that the problem is not anatomical.

Is this something that will eventually resolve with maturity?  Need some
feedback; what am I missing?

Thanks!

Sue Martin,LDN, IBCLC