If your baby spits up and there's blood in it...don't freak out! This morning when I went to get Molly out of her crib, she had spit up and there were flecks of blood in it. She didn't have a fever and seemed to be in a pretty good mood. We called the doctor's office and the nurse on call called us back. She didn't seem too concerned but said she would have the doctor on call call us, which happened to be our pediatrician. For the next 30 min, Molly continued to spit up and it was kind of spit-up color and brown mixed together, like she had vomited. Finally I talked to our doctor and he said this is common with breastfed babies. (would have been nice to know!) That often your nipples crack and bleed, we know that's true!, and because of that the baby can ingest some of the blood which is then spit back up. He said any mixture of brown or black in the spit up is fine, as long as she's not spitting up just blood (like bright red). But she might have an upset tummy as a result.
It's like they think we know all of this stuff coming into Motherhood. I wish I had been told these 'commonalities' before I experienced them!!!
-Emily
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