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April 2012 Moms
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**HuaHua**
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Your LO is MSPI, right? How did you know? When did you figure it out? Was this diagnosed by the pedi? Is this something that I would've known earlier?
I feel like something is going on with Colin but I don't know what. He has reflux which has gotten better but is still a problem. It used to be BAD. The pedi was never concerned about it though. He has bad gas and he'll scream in the night and then let gas go. I am trying to diagnose the issues with his sleeping and it seems like it's either teeth or gas--maybe even both. One day he was SO fussy, mad, irritated... DH and I couldn't figure it out and blamed it on teething and then he poo'd and it was one of those diapers that was like "dang kid, what did you eat?".
Anyways, I'm just trying to figure out if I should be addressing this issue and am wondering what this whole MSPI thing is and if it could be related, possibly?
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Re: **HuaHua**
DS has been super fussy, like crying non stop for several hours everyday. Little to no naps at all. Spitting up like crazy! I brought it up to the pedi, they ignored it. Then, at his 4 month appointment I brought it up again and wouldn't drop the issue. I haven't been around a lot of other babies, but from what others said on this board, I realized that my kid was not the norm. Finally the pedi told me to try cutting food out of my diet to see if it would help. I cut out gluten, all dairy, soy, and rice. Let me tell you, it is very hard to eat this way, but it is like I have a new baby!
I started adding rice back in, and he seems okay with it so I'm going to start to add gluten back in at the end of the week or so. I noticed a difference within just 48 hours of no longer eating all those foods with his attitude. I know that Colin is a higher needs baby too, so if I were you I would change out your diet, it can't hurt anything.
He never had the blood in his diaper or anything like that, but now he actually naps, he doesn't have to be held non stop, he is spitting up 10% of what he used to, he is just so much happier all the time. We kept thinking teething too, but then when I changed my diet I learned that wasn't it, or it wasn't the major part of his issues.
Thank you for the response. Colin can be so happy but at other times he goes ballistic and we can't figure out why. It's just so weird. I thought early on that there was an issue because he would spit up SO much but gains weight better than any baby I know (is probably 18lbs now!). So, the pedi was never concerned and called him a happy spitter.
So tell me what kind of things do you eat? How long did you cut all all that stuff before you started reintroducing? Are there any resources that you've used to figure everything out? I really need to try anything I can because I feel that food is at least part of his issues. I know his belly hurts him a lot and I feel so sad that what I eat might be causing it.
Also, rather than cut out everything all at once... my H suggested trying dairy (is dairy even one of the things?) because he has issues with dairy and feels that could be it. Is that silly to try cutting out just that first?
Are you giving any solids?
DS's pedi did the same thing because he was gaining weight so well. I tried explaining because I let him nurse nonstop so that is why. There are several mom's on here that have helps me out a lot. One website is mspimamas.com and it has a lot of things that you can eat. Since I cut out gluten and rice as well, I can't have much of those. I waited a week shy of a month to bring rice back, I'm assuming that I could have done that one sooner. Read the nutrition facts to everything, you would never imgaine how many things soy is in or even dairy. I buy some things at whole foods, but it cost a lot. I've been making a lot of veggies with meat. I eat a lot of bananas, potatoes, eggs, chicken. You can't use butter or cooking spray so I use olive oil. I lost the rest of my baby weight as soon as I went on this diet. I know it wasn't a very healthy way of doing it since it was fast. for snacks I I have chips and salsa or hummus, just again be sure to read all the nutrition facts because a lot of products do have soy in them still.