I realize I have not updated on Pax's "BM"condition lately. So here is the latest. We met with a pediatric GI specialist on Monday because after eliminating dairy from my diet we were still seeing some blood in his stools. It was really amazing that we were able to meet with him, as he is booked several months out. (Our wonderful pediatrician pulled some strings for us.)
After examining him thoroughly and asking us tons of questions he decided the next step would be getting some pictures of Pax's colons, via a mini infant colonoscopy. (This may sound invasive but our doctor told us that because infants are generally so relaxed it doesn't even bother them. Pax just talked and cooed through the whole thing. Our doctor said that if adults could be as relaxed as babies, they could perform colonoscopies just as simply. Remember that for your next colonoscopy!)
Again, we were very fortunate to have this done because these are scheduled even further out. But the doctor seemed to click with us (Or at least Pax. The doctor just recently had his first grandchild, a boy, who wears the same cloth diapers as Pax and lives on the East Coast.) and so he walked us over to the GI "surgery" room and performed the procedure immediately.
Thankfully he saw no reason for concern. The pictures confirmed his hypothesis that Pax's issue is a "variation of normal." Evidently breastfed babies have an abundance of lymph nodes in their GI track. Sometimes these lymph nodes dislodge themselves and as a result produce blood in the stools. While the doctor was taking pictures of these he took a small biopsy and is running some tests on it just to make sure there is nothing more seriously wrong. We should know the results of that later today or tomorrow. All in all the doctor is not overly concerned. He does want me to keep up with a very limited dairy intake because he says that can only help.
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