If you read my entry over at Mommy Musings, you know that Olivia was constipated. I know, I know, breastfed babies can go for days without pooping, but not my daughter. She loves to poop. She poops a few times a day and smiles when she toots. Nope, not pooping for 3 days is not normal for Olivia. I called her pediatrician today, who recommended I give her a tablespoon of dark caro syrup in a bottle with 2 ozs. of expressed milk. What a synch! Or so I thought. At first, she didn't want it. Then, when I finally got her to drink it, she spit it all back up. Then I gave her more, and again, she spit it up. I'm not sure if what little bit she got actually helped, but it's all good now.
I've gotta figure out how to post a video clip on my site so you can see my child (who apparently thinks she's a dog) nose dive into a bowl of rice cereal and begin slurping it up. Maybe it was a mistake to give it to her, as this won't be a part of her regular diet yet. It was kind of an experiment. When I got her head out of the dish, she began biting on the side of the bowl inbetween bites. It was a riot!
Ok, I'm going to sneak back into our room and put Olivia in her bassinet (she fell asleep on our bed) and read some more of Kite Runner.
Posted by Hannah at August 29, 2006 11:29 PMHAHAH!! That imagery made me giggle! Amelia is good about her cereal too, but she hasn't done that yet!! :) Isn't Kite Runner awesome?
Did you get my last email? xoxo!
Posted by: girl from florida at August 30, 2006 12:15 PMI'm reading The Kite Runner right now, too! How funny! What do you think of it so far? That sounds hilarious about Olivia and her rice cereal. We gave Lucas rice cereal around the same age ~ he was REALLY ready for it and LOVED it. Still does. You can use DropShots to post videos on your site ~ there's also YouTube. I have coding that you can use [HTML] in order to display a video on your site, too, and let me know if you'd like to have that.
Posted by: Lisanne at August 30, 2006 12:51 PMGlad little Olivia is feeling better! I suffer from that myself too often. I know for me rice, pasta and cheese are pretty binding.
Posted by: Ani at August 30, 2006 01:35 PMhave you tried gripe water? my friend here has a 6 month old and he didn't poop for 2 days...I asked her to try gripe wter diluted with a small amount of water...it worked wonders. my mum used to give it to me when i was a baby.
Posted by: stef at August 31, 2006 11:45 AM