My month-old son farts...a lot. I'm not talking an occasional discreet toot. I'm talking 12-hours-after-eating-a-bowl-full-of-hot-chili-and-beans fart; farting so loud and powerful it will wake him up from a deep sleep. If sleep apnia describes people who have trouble sleeping because they stop breathing, he has fart apnia.
We cannot quite figure out what is causing this problem. Kim is on a diet more bland than someone who has the had the stomach flu. Still, he farts.
I recall hearing that "bovine emissions," aka, cow farts are a major source of greenhouse gasses thus leading to global warming (I'm not joking here). Cow farts produce methane and methane has been determined to be 23 times more "warming" than carbon dioxide. I fear for the cows. I fear for my son. In just the time I've been typing (and I type quickly) he as farted five times. The air in my room feels warmer. I don't know what to do.
[Note - Some readers have inquired whether everything is ok and the answer is genuinely yes. He has an allergy to something in Kim's diet plus he ingests a lot of air while nursing. He's really fine, sleeps well, is gaining wonderful amounts of weight, etc. ]
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Well, stop feeding him the bowls of hot chili and peppers, and the problem should clear right up. Oh, and the warm room problem...light a match. :-)
Seriously..If jr. is putting on weight and keeping food down and developing normally then it is what it is. My oldest was born hungry. He'd pound down a bottle and tons of air, spit it all up (usually on me), then start screaming for another bottle. Not quite a normal feeding pattern. He's 17 now, about 210 pounds, and hopes to start on his HS football team this fall, so it seems to have worked out okay.
Cheers...Phil
Let everything that hath breath, praise the Lord!
Because she was my fourth baby, and I had let up a great deal on the "perfect diet", I drank a cup of coffee in the just a couple of hours before I went into a very hard and short labor with my daughter. Later on, when we were back in our room for the night I was cuddling and nursing her. Every few minutes, I would smell the most HORRIBLE, NOXIOUS flatulence--which, since it wasn't me, I automatically blamed on the other mother in the next bed. I kept getting fresh whiffs every so often until I realized by pulling her diaper open that it was coming out of my daughters perfect little pink butt!!! (The nurse and I had a good laugh, and she confirmed that the coffee could have stimulated her digestive tract.)
By the way, babies do need a little time to develop the enzymes and colonize their intestinal tract with the kinds of bacteria that help them digest their food--just be patient!!!
cnucklehead - howling
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