RE: Re: abdominal migraine

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Bo,

We were also doing the warm bottle to the tummy, massage, etc. Jillyan

would just scream out in pain when she was a new born. Our issue with her

is that we are introducing more complex foods for her. The weak muscle tone

issue also follows along with the colon and other areas I'm sure as well.

Since she is still not mobile she is not exercising those tummy muscles

which help to push everything out. With our new PT (who give her a complete

60 minute workout whether she likes it or not!) we sometimes get a BM during

therapy -- which sounds silly -- but we get so excited as she is using those

muscles. Jilly was extremely gassy with my breast milk. Then when they put

her on the 24 calorie formula it got even worse. At that time (she is

orally fed) we put Karo syrup in her bottle to help or the glycerin

suppository. We had a quiet period of time where this was not a problem and

then all of a sudden 1 month ago she started suffering from extremely

serious constipation. Mineral Oil I will say has been the life saver.

We've cut out all baby cereal and bananas and we've starting adding water to

her whole milk and juice. She loves milk -- and it has been the biggest

constipator of all. We do a lot of veges and citrus type fruits and she

appears to be fine -- as long as she gets her dose of mineral oil.

Best of luck -- Even as a new born Jillyan did not have regular BM's --

Every other day seems to be her style -- even with the oil.

Huggins

Mom to Jillyan (17 months) & Hailey (5 yrs)

Re: abdominal migraine

This subject is extremely interesting to us. We have been

experiencing the same type of behavior but it's so early in the game

for us, it's hard to tell if it's just gas or is having more

major abdominal pain. Some days, it seems like his stomach hurts him

all day long. He grunts and groans and cries and pushes but never has

a bm. He can be consoled by picking him up and bouncing him a bit,

but i don't think he had too much time when he was awake yesterday

that he didn't seem uncomfortable.

At one point, we put a hot water bottle on his belly and he relaxed

for about 20 minutes and seemed content. Some massaging has helped

while i'm massaging, but it seems to hurt him soon after. We have had

to use a glycerine chip each day for the last few days to see a bm.

He was going just fine it seemed in the NICU.

We are also playing with his food mix. We switched from breast milk

and rice cereal to infamil A/R and his gas seems to be better but he

seems more constipated. We have been introducing breast milk back

into his diet and are nearly at half-and-half consistency now. His

stools are soft, but they are very far between. From all the posts

we've been reading, we will ask our doctor about mineral oil today. I

hope to stop any aversion he may have to painful bm's.

Bo

3 Mo. CHARGE