Thanks in advance for your thoughts....

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?

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?

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!

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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?

~it is normal for some babies.

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?

~ does she still act hungry at these times?

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!


~ it really depends on the little one. some babies go back and forth with no problems whatsoever, some take a bottle once and decide they'd rather stick with it since it is so much easier, some refuse a fake nipple entirely.

the only thing i cna suggest here is that is you ever really NEEDED to have her supplemented while you were unavailable, that she could be fed with a cup until youwere able to nurse again.

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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

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ds #1 6/02 and ds #2 12/07

Mentioned the not pooping thing to our doctor.......he wants me to offer her juice each day?! What do you guys think about that? Seems early to me!

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A doctor suggesting to give juice to an infant of any age is a doctor I would not go back to, period. Especially a child so young. That is not good medicine, IMO.

My first son was not gassy, my 2nd horribly gassy. My first didn't spit up, the 2nd did a little. Neither would ever take a bottle without a fight, ever. Smart these BF babies are, who wants a bottle?

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i would absolutely notngive juice even occasionally at only 3 months old. the bare minimum i would give it is 6, and even at that i didn't do it with my ownb. just too many empty calories imo.

it is normal for bf babies to not poo as often as their digestive systems get more efficient.

human milk is so totally digestible to a human baby, that there just isn't a lot of waste leftover, make sense? as long as it isn't hard and pelletlike when she does have a bm, the babe is not constipated and nothign needs to eb done.

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That is kind of my thinking.... plus, I don't want her to be "full" after juice and not nurse well - no way! I haven't and won't give her any juice or solids until at least 6mos.

BTW - she had a nice poopy diaper this morning... so she is going every 4-5 days - I can take that!

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once every 4-5 days is great :thumb

you sound like you already know that the consistency of the poo is more importnat than thef requency

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