My Gassy Little Logan

So there was a period within the past month that Logan has been HORRIBLY gassy.  I don't just mean normally baby gassy, I mean you can see tht he was in some severe pain.  So of course being the person I am I looked up the causes of infant gas. 

Well one of the things I foud is that with breast fed babies if the mom is eating dairy that this might cause severe gas in baby if the little one is lactose intolerant.  So I started cutting out Dairy a few days prior to his 1 month appointment.  We didn't see Logan's regular pediatrician since she was on vacation, but another woman.  I brought it up to her and she didn't think anything of it.  Well I should have trusted my gut because I started eating and drinking dairy again.  His gas got about 10 times worse it seemed.  Brought him back in to HIS peditrician and she agreed that I should try and cut dairy out of my diet for a while.  THANK YOU!


In between the dairy getting out of my system and Logan being in pain we kept trying to figure out how to help him out.  We tried the bicycle (moving his legs like he's riding a bicycle).  We tried bouncing him on our lap and walking.  We tried the upside down football hold, though we were new to this and not totally understanding...

We even tried the Mylicon drops.  Nothing worked!

Finally someone told Dustin at work about Gripe water to use for gas.  We just kept thinking...Your not supposed to give water to babies.  So we dismissed this idea.  Then as we were at the social security office one day (I still hadn't changed my last name yet from when we got married in August) there was a woman there that said the same thing...use Gripe Water.  She said that she formula fed her baby and it made her poo smell like death, but that it worked when nothing else did.  We broke down and picked up some Gripe Water from Walgreens.  Guess what...IT WORKED!!  This is something that every parent with children needs.  SERIOUSLY!  It was wonderful!  The best thing about it, it's all natural, no artifical chemicals which I love about it the most, besides the fact that it actually worked for Logan.  This is something that I will never let our Medicine cabinet go with out now...Baby's Bliss Gripe Water.

 

So next time your little one is having some severe gas, run out to the pharmacy (or just have some on hand) and get some Gripe water.  It works in 5 - 20 minutes!  It was great.  I will never go without it again!