Mucous poop? (NSFW) MSPI detectives plz help!
Wanting to show my doctor but wondering if he will say it’s normal. 8 month old literally straining and crying and arching all night. Though his poops have always looked like this, this has been happening more frequently lately and I thought it was a sleep regression but now I’m not sure. He used to poop 1x daily but now 3-4 times with the first being like this above and the next 3 poops of the day being like sharts when poop liquid looks mostly absorbed by diaper with flecks of drier stuff that sticks to his bum.
Other symptoms: eczema inner elbows starting a month ago, up every 1-2 hours throughout the night, wanting to nurse a lot at night which may be for reflux relief since he wants to be propped up at night?, poor weight gain to the point my ped scheduled him for an extra weigh in in a week, circles under eyes. Spit ups still. Sour poop smell, red around anus.
He is very active and super happy, I feel like everything above including his low weight (he was IUGR and was small at birth and has genetically short small parents) could be explained away by teething, sleep regression, etc. Ped told me my milk supply probably down and to try feed baby more. I give baby 2-3 solid food meals a day! I am at a loss why he doesn’t gain more other than that ethnically we are small and he is so active.
Then I started to wonder if maybe he had an allergy so I gave up dairy and soy 3 weeks ago. But I feel like nothing is improving and poos worse. Giving evivo drops and no improvement. Feel like all signs point to some sort of allergy.
I will ask my ped, but with all things considered does this seem like an allergy to you?
And any opinions if I should give up wheat or coconut next? Cause I feel like maybe the eczema started when I made and enjoyed a batch of my first coconut muffins a month ago, but after he developed eczema I went hard into having coconut everything since I gave up dairy. I’ve also been leaning heavily into wheat (baking my own bread and baked goods) to avoid processed foods with hidden soy or dairy and my snacks have switched from cheeses and yogurts to toasts. So could it be wheat allergy, should I give this one up first?