The Poop Saga....

You were warned. The title of this post tells it all. We are having issues here in the King Household. Brady is having issues going "Number 2". Since he came into our lives, Brady has been a very consistent pooper. He poops, or at least "wet farts" (as Austin calls it) every 3 hours... This has NOT been the case this past week.... I believe it all started when I started to give him a vitamin supplement. I read that breastfeeding mothers should give their child a Vitamin D supplement because it cannot be passed in the breastmilk. I called my doctor and sure enough her nurse told me to give him a Vitamin called Poly-Vi-Sol. So, I went out and bought this stuff... but only found it with Iron in it as well.


The first day I gave it to Brady he spit most of it up all over his play-mat. Since one of the warnings on the label says that overdose of Iron supplements is one of the most common causes of death in babies, I was not going to give him another dose. Brady's bowel movements were pretty normal that day....

The NEXT day (Wednesday)... Brady got his vitamin in a bottle of breastmilk that Austin gave to him that night. Brady pooped at 7pm that night....

Thursday... No poop....

Friday... No poop... Now we are talking about 48 hours here of no poop. This is crazy for my little guy! Not only had he not pooed, but no smears or anything! Brady is also generally a very happy baby.... he rarely cries, except when we don't feed him fast enough... or when he's cold. He usually makes some noise when he is trying to poop, but nothing crazy. We stopped giving the vitamin.

Then Saturday came... and Brady was NOT his happy baby self... he would cry, his face would turn bright red, and he would just fart. It was obvious he was full of you-know-what.... He went the whole day being cranky.

THEN... he does this....


Sure enough... there was an explosion in his pants at 8:30pm (73.5 hours later)...

And he has not gone since then....