Abnormal Output

There will be many a time when you panic as a parent. In most cases you distress over a very normal situation, which you probably never would have learned about unless you really had to, like opening a beer bottle without a bottle opener. Our first time for baby-related panic was on the second day Baby was born, when the doctor told us he lost weight and needed to be held for observation. What the doctor didn't tell us was that it was typical for all babies to lose weight, not just ours. (They're generally not getting the right nutrition over the first few days of birth, because mother is producing milk which is mostly water and non-fattening nutrients at this point.)

Our second day of baby-panic happened this past week, when Mommy called me and told me (stop reading now if you're eating, especially if you're eating chocolate) the baby had some blood in his poo. Such a symptom as an adult after years of Hot Pockets and crunchy fried Gorditas is never good, so you would expect it to be proportionately worse for a little person who is eating nothing but mommy-milk. After a call to the pediatrician and some research online, we found the most common cause to be simply an allergic reaction to dairy, from the mother ingesting milk, ice cream, grande caramel mocha Frappucinos, etc. We found another source that claimed multi-vitamins may also be the culprit, so we're currently experimenting with refraining from one or the other, since it seemed to start after he started taking those infernal multi-vitamins.

So far his poos have been as normal as baby poo can be, but we know this won't be the last of times we'll be panicking, calling the doctor, and eating Gorditas with Frappucinos. At least we can all sleep soundly knowing everything is normal, for now...