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CMPA?

Is this poo worth checking again or is it normal for a formula fed baby? I keep getting told it’s normal but no dr will actually look at a picture. When my baby was 3 weeks old he had a small amount of blood in his stool for a couple of weeks. They diagnosed him with CMPA without seeing him but he showed no other signs. He was put on nutramigen and 24 hrs later another dr told us to go back on aptamil comfort and that it likely wasn’t CMPA Trying to keep it short… my baby: - struggles to poo and when he does it’s often green and yellow but now has black specs in? As per picture. Often mucasy too but been told that could be normal?! - seems to have a very mild spotty rash on belly after each bottle but quickly goes away - no issues with weight gain but cries during every bottle, we thought silent reflux but now not sure. - spits up a bit and it smells acidic but doesn’t seem in pain with it. Sometimes comes up much later as clear fluid. - has a lot of saliva bubbles - sometimes sounds croaky when breathing but not always. Usually after bottle - we’ve tried putting him back on regular milk twice and his symptoms get much worse so dunno if the comfort milk is masking some of the symptoms but not all? Any advice please? Dunno if I should be riding it out as it doesn’t seem too severe but this poo can’t be right?!?

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This sounds just like our little boy,.we are yet to find out what it is! Hoping to get some answers from a doc next week xx

We had a different CMPA formula with first and my lord the poos we’re army green and the smell was out of this world 🫣 I’m not sure what else blood in poo could be except an allergy and usually CMPA so I’m not sure why they’d pull you off the special formula so soon? Has he had it since or not? Maybe it was a one off! It’s so hard to figure out what the causes of these things are.

this poo is definitely something that needs looking at, the specialist formulas can produce some funny poo so if this was within a few days of being on the formula i’d see how they are in a weeks time. However, I would be booking a doctors appointment for the baby under different circumstances, ask for the one who pulled you off the formula. Then while there, i’d ask what made them pull you off and show them the image in person. They won’t have you come in over a photograph but if you’re already there for something “unrelated” then they can’t just turn around and ignore the photo if it’s there in front of them xx

@Olivia @Madeleine thank you both! sorry I probably didn’t explain it so well in my post, he was put on the specialist formula at 3 weeks old and taken straight off 24 hours later but he’s now 10 weeks old The fresh blood was when he was on Kendamil from birth and it stopped shortly after he went on comfort milk at around that 3 week mark. He’s been on comfort milk for 7 weeks so these are his poos on ‘normal’ milk, not specialist. Sometimes they are yellow but still seedy and mucasy and other times they are dark green like the photo. So I think I’m understanding that you both think that this poo is not normal?! xxx

yes i would say not normal, or at least a case worth concern.To my understanding, a green poo in a formula fed baby is okay if it is one off every now and then HOWEVER i’m more concerned about the hard pebbles within the poo and the overall consistency. im seeing quite a lot of mucus, pebbles and the discolouration which are all individual things to look out for, yet you have them combined! even while typing this my partner saw over my shoulder and said “what the f**k poor baby!!” It very much looks like an allergy of some kind / digestive issues due to the mix of consistency (hard is obviously trapped stool. the watery bits is newer poop that’s squished around the hard poo to get out and that in itself can cause further complications. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE book an appointment for anything - literally even say he’s been coughing a lot or whatever as if he’s poorly and go, just to show them this in person where they can’t refuse to look!! i say it because you’re not wasting NHS time

by doing that, as it is going to be an appointment put to good use - and having them check baby over for illness could also help indicate if it’s digestive/allergy or from any virus xxx

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