Well, Meghan was fussy as all get out on Sunday evening...we looked her over and her belly was quite distended and she hadn't pooped in awhile... We called the pediatrician and he told us to give her prune juice with water. It worked by Tuesday. Thinking that whatever was clogging her had passed, we stopped the prune juice. Wednesday night she was acting fussy again and you could tell she was in pain...so we started the prune juice again...she hadn't pooped by this morning so we called the pediatrician who told us to bring her in.
She has a temp of 100.0...borderline fever. She gained another pound...she's now up to 10lbs 5.4oz. The Dr looked at her belly and did an exam and concurred that she was constipated (duh)...he told me to continue with the prune juice (once a day) and to add mylicon to each of her feedings... If in a week all is well, then we'll continue with that - if not, she'll go back in and they'll consider changing her formula again...
(A little funny from the Dr's office, OK, that I at least found funny...she has been incredibly gassy (loud and smelly, *sigh*)...well, she got the hiccups while we were there and after each hiccup she would fart...it was hysterical. What I think made it all the more entertaining to me was that she slept through the whole thing!)
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