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Today, I stirred up quite a controversy on my Facebook group when I addressed the problem of a baby with colic!
The brave Mom probably denies herself everything except water, the Baby is 6 weeks old, and the colic is driving them insane.
What could this be about?
I wouldn’t have thought of it either if it wasn’t for our Wisest of Pediatricians, who I often mention.
Ages ago, he looked me in the eye and said this – here’s how digestion works:
1. pour strongly alkaline milk into the strongly acidic environment of the stomach,
2. the milk neutralizes the pH of the stomach for a while, but over time it is digested and travels further,
(3. mainly proteins are digested in the stomach,)
4. if you keep adding new portions of alkali to the acid and thus neutralize it, the stomach can’t properly break down proteins and their excessively large molecules end up in the intestine, where they should not be,
5. protein in the intestine causes an inflammatory response (gas, mucus, colic, pain, anxiety),
6. protein molecules also enter the bloodstream, where they should not be, and in turn trigger an allergic response of the entire immune system,
7. as a result, we have colic and allergies (and spitting up and vomitting),
8. you get it, Mom?
I was so awestruck by this argument that I remember it in its entirety to this day. He convinced me immediately, both at the level of reason and intuition.
In a pocket journal I started noting the time of day the baby ate (or more precisely, started eating) and when she slept, and as soon as the tummy was empty and the level of unhappiness increased, I started walking around the living room, with the baby hanging over my shoulder to massage the tummy a bit and last at least 2.5 hours, at first 🙂
Of course, we didn’t immediately transition from ‘every half hour’ to ‘every three hours’ , but we tried to make each break a bit longer.
As a result, the baby was eating more than before when she latched on only for a short while at short intervals, the breaks between feedings got spontaneously longer, and there was a huge difference in the frequency of colic!
It really is worth trusting medical logic and giving biology a chance. If the experiment fails, you can always burn the journal and return to your old habits with a justified sense of your own superiority 🙂
Note: blaming everything that a poor mother puts into her mouth for the misery of her little child is, in my opinion, a classic case of oppressing the most vulnerable. A restrictive diet for a breastfeeding mother is a harmful myth! Women in igloos only eat meat and fat, because that’s all they have, women in India are encouraged to eat extra portions of garlic and curry, because it’s healthy, and in our country every pimple on the child’s body is the fault of dairy products (bad, selfish mom!), and every stomach ache is the fault of onions, garlic, cherries, strawberries, plums, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, spices and that delivery truck that has just passed by the window. Of course, the baby didn’t sleep because you drank tea yesterday, and he won’t sleep today because you walked past a café (you monster!). And by the way, you don’t drink enough so you will definitely run out of food and your child will lose weight and your neighbor’s dog will die….
I hate this type of harrassment. I honestly hate it.
As if worrying was proof 1. that the worried person is right, 2. and that he or she is kind.
So pay attention because it is not! All it does is only add to the worries of an insecure mother. A young mother needs less to worry about, not more.
And one more note: until parents get to know their baby, they often confuse the sucking reflex with hunger and feed it without restraint, for fear of starving it to death 🙂
Maybe a newborn should be fed more often than every 3 hours, I am not ruling it out. I certainly did. that The first month is an intense time of adaptation and getting to know each other. What happens afterwards? Afterwards, you simply know each other better and better and you can safely assume that a 2.5-3 hour break between meals is not a death sentence, but rather a symptom of common sense and good organizational skills. Because if we look at those tormented mothers who feed for 40 minutes every 1.5 hours, are their babies really full? Most likely not. On the other hand, if you allow the stomach to empty, more will fit in and it will last for longer, right? I know that logic has little clout when a midwife, a friend, a doctor, a mother, mother-in-law and a neighbor frown on you, and the ideological monopoly keeps nagging at you that you want to hurt your child (and kill your neighbor’s dog). But after 6-8 weeks, you know your baby enough to understand his reactions.
So I encourage you, dear Mom, to start taking notes – soon you will be wiser than anyone who criticizes you.
And when you are wiser, you will be calmer, which I wish for you with all my heart!
Also, take a look at the post about the importance of vitamin C in pregnancy, childbirth, neonatal jaundice and the postpartum period.
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