The other night we had a little bit of a scare with Sophie. She had some blood in her diaper, which became more and more prevalent throughout the night in her diaper changings. Being new parents Annie and I both freaked out and I called the on-call pediatrician from our pediatric clinic. He pretty much told me to watch it until morning and, if it was worse before the clinic opened to take her to the hospital. Otherwise, we were to wait and visit with our regular pediatrician.
Luckily that was the last diaper of the night, and we were right in to the pediatrician early in the morning. Sophia's doctor is great with kids and with parents, let me say that right up front. He very calmly assured us this happens a lot and that she simply is allergic to cow's milk proteins which are normally broken down by the breast, but in most formulas the protein isn't broken down the same.
To remedy this we have to use a special formula when we use formula and we are also supposed to watch to see if the same thing happens when Annie eats dairy. Hopefully everything will return to normal now. Luckily today Annie is good to start nursing again so I'm thinking this will all clear up quickly.
It's nice to know that we have a great doctor for our child that we can trust and that is very patient with worrisome parents such as us. He also gave us a fat book that explains a bunch of stuff about child development for the first few years of life.
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