Q: My baby is 5 days old and she has diarrhea.
A: After the first few days of life when your baby has meconium bowel movements that are very dark and sticky, it’s normal for your newborn’s poop to begin to be very watery and seem like diarrhea. Breast fed infants, in particular, have BMs that [...]
Common New Parent Questions
May 3rd, 2010 No Comments
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What’s the big deal about Vitamin D?
May 24th, 2009 1 Comment
All pregnant and lactating women should have their vitamin D levels checked because many of us are deficient and don’t know it. Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy has been linked with an almost 4 times higher Cesarean-section rate (J Clinical Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Mar; 94(3):940-5). Maternal deficiency during pregnancy has also been correlated with low [...]
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