What I've learned about Poo

An amazing subject at any time don't you think? Now, with nearly nine months of nappies under my belt I feel that I am somewhat qualified to comment on baby poo. Ha!

At times I feel like an animal tracker. The amount of information you think you can garner from a nappy is amazing! There can be quite the rainbow of colours. The variation in consistency is quite fantastic.

But what does it all mean? My baby bible, the book Baby Love, tells me that for a newborn this is all quite normal. But what about a nine month old? From what I can gather it's either a food reaction (but this is usually accompanied by a red bottom) or again, completely normal.

Back to square one. All I've learned from my own experience is that if the child seems happy most of the time, then I don't worry.

However, this week was a little different. I got a call from the child care centre on Friday to come and check on Maeve as she was very upset and scratching herself, not to mention the numerous poos she had done.

When I got there it looked like my little girl had been in a cat fight and lost! She had a huge gouge across her cheek and all self-inflicted. Poor little bugger. She had also not slept, eaten or drunk anything all morning so was quite upset. Obviously a little upset tummy right?

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I breast fed her and she calmed quite quickly. It's amazing what boobies can do isn't it? And yes, she has teeth - more on this later...

She still has some strange things happening in her nappy on the third day, but apart from that is quite happy. What do I do? I suppose as a "good-mother" I take her to the GP. But part of me is thinking I am over-reacting. I guess I could be, but you know that I will take her. It's just what you do or else you find yourself feeling forever guilty! Even if she is fine.

Hopefully the moral of this story will be that I have learned nothing from baby poo and that Maeve is just creating some variety in her little life to keep us all on our toes. That seems to be the usual outcome of each day with her in our lives!