Breast feeding constant poops and nappy rash hell

[DogsandDungarees]

Hi I have posted before but my little one ( 3 weeks old) has had persistent nappy rash for over two weeks so non stop creams from the GP different nappies ect. We just can’t get on top of it as she poops all the time. So if she is napping I will check see she needs changing , change her which wakes her up so she then wants to go onto the breast which of course then makes her nap and poop again.

its a endless cycle of pooping ( which midwives assure me is normal ) but her nappy rash is completely stressing me out. Would I be better to move her onto formula to control her feeding more this way ensures she gets enough and I can get control of her poops better. She was also born at 38 weeks and is only small so I also constantly worry whether she is getting enough.

Thank you for reading x

And if you do still want to cut out dairy, I’d recommend reading this article called Dairy and other food sensitivities from Kellymom

I had this with both of my children, I was in tears over it, both developed large open sores on the bottom, nothing I did worked. A lot of suggestions also did not work, they both just constantly pooped

With my daughter I had to use pampers nappies and the doctors prescribed timodine this seemed to do the tick when used with the yellow metanium

My son got the same and I thought hurrah I know how to fix it but it didn't work for him. He didn't wear a nappy for 4 months honestly it was hell. In the end I bought ilex cream which stuck like a pritt stick to the skin creating a waterproof barrier so the skin could heal underneath, this worked. 30g tube was about £50. You cannot buy it anymore, I think 3M caviilion cream is similar

I never met any other parent who suffered this way with the nappy rash. ( the skin on their bums was just open like red red raw patches of no skin) Honestly its so so tough and like you I considered formula to solve the issue but neither of mine would take a bottle.

I also had to not use wet wipes but water and wool. My daughter was ok with the huggies wipes which were like tissue.

Im sorry you are going through this, at about 4 month both of my children seemed to start regulating their bowels.

Cut out dairy. This was my first baby and I insisted this couldn’t be the issue. It was

I can remember DD going for 10 days by this stage and the sense of dread about the impending Poonami…💩

Around this time she will begin to strain more. Babies don’t actually know how to get wind, poo, wee or burps out. They are learning and sometimes that means straining the wrong thing in trial and error. Your baby will be straining over the next few weeks and will be upset at times trying to perform bodily functions. A degree of this is normal. They usually figure it out around 8-10 weeks (just in time for the poop to turn really acidic from the vaccines! 😂). If you are concerned about the amount of distress she is in, call your health visitor.

Has the GP or Health Visitor shown you how to apply the prescribed nappy cream or watched you do it? We were being too conservative in our application. I was shocked at how much our baby needed.

They said sneezing was fine and expected and that she had a lot of mucus from the C section. Thanks for your replies everyone , I did try canesten anti fungal prescribed by GP but it made it worse

Thank you for your reply, it’s honestly driving me mad this nappy rash certainly making me emotional xx

And just to think outside of the box, could it be an allergy to the nappies? Have you tried changing brand? Could be totally unrelated to the poo!

Thank you but I’ve tried a fair few now

My daughter was breastfed but always had a sore butt/ nappy rash/funny poos. Random crying too but I just always thought she was fussy. Now at 7 she has a dairy/lactose intolerance. I wonder now if it was this that made her poop give her nappy rash. So I suggest try a lactofree diet yourself incase it's lactose in your milk coming though from what you eat and drink.

Lactose (a sugar) intolerance is extremely rare in babies that haven't recently been unwell, its usually the Cow's Milk Proteins like casein and whey to which they have the allergy (hence CMPA).

A dairy free diet would eliminate both the protein and the lactose. A lactose free diet would only remove the sugar.

Just to add that post may sound pedantic but it actually makes a big difference.

For example hard cheeses like cheddar - low lactose. 0.1g per 100g. Lots of lactose intolerant people are OK with it. But has 25g per 100g of Cow's Milk Proteins. Very bad for someone with CMPA.

Soya milk. Zero lactose. Great alternative for a lactose intolerant person. But the soya protein is very similar to Cow's Milk Protein, so approx 50% of babies with non-IgE CMPA are also allergic to soy protein (mine included!) so a dairy exclusion diet for CMPA is usually also recommended to be soya protein free. So you can't replace dairy products with soya, need to do oat for example.

Lots of crisps like frazzles, doritos, pringles, walkers (not all flavours) will often contain milk protein, lactose or both. Proper dairy free exclusion diets are really tough to start with, lots of accidental exposures, but they do get easier and I managed 2 years in the end! Wasn't just dairy free, baby turned out to have other allergies that was reacting to in my breast milk. Eggs, nuts etc also possible.

They poo more with the bottle plus the rashes are worse. You need to layer on that barrier Creme after every nappy change. Use cotton wool and water to clean their bum as well.

Have to agree about lactose intolerance being extremely rare, although obviously it can happen. If there’s an allergy it’s much more likely to be CMPA which affects roughly one in ten babies. Soya isn’t an ideal substitute either as around half of all people with CMPA are also allergic to the proteins in Soya as the molecules as so similar.