1. Is your BF baby VERY gassy? Rachael has got gas of the worst kind....loud and VERY smelly! She does not poop often (which I know can be normal), but is is normal to has such awful gas?
-I discovered that certain foods I ate made gas worse for ds (mainly beans). I cut them out and things were ok.
2. Spitting up. Rachael has been doing this more and more. I think it is bc she must be eating more as she gets bigger and her appetite increases. My question is.... if she spits up, do I assume she is full? Sometimes she spits up after nursing on only one side?! Should I still offer her the other if she spits up all over?
-I gave up on 2 breasts per feeding pretty early on. He was a "happy spitter" and would spit up after one side too. The extra time and work to offer the 2nd side if he may already be full didn't seem necessary. Diaper counts were good and he was growing well.
Babies have immature esophageal sphincters so some spit up is just going to happen. So long as they are thriving and they don't mind spit up it is more of an annoyance, from what I read and my ped told us. We just kept a bib on ds the first 6 months so we wouldn't have to change his full outfit.
3. How often do you recommend giving a bottle of EBM - just so she will take one if I am lucky enough to go out or there is an emergency? I am with her 99.9% of the time, but I do want to have that option. My son was not picky at all and would easily go back and forth, but this one likes it from the tap!
-I only did it when necessary and he would take it if he really had to.
Beth