Spokesperson for Probiotics

January 25th, 2008

I really should do commercials for probiotics…huge fan. There are 2 reasons why I started giving Madeleine probiotics. First, she had thrush when she was a few weeks old so I was concerned about the level of yeast in her system and second she had symptoms of colic.

Apparently there is a debate about whether colic is real or not. IF there is such a thing as colic, not being able to sleep flat is a symptom and probiotics have been shown to help. Madeleine slept exculsively in her swing (which my brother-in-law affectionately named “the magic bucket”) for the first 4 months of her little life. I was convinced that she wouldn’t be able to go off to college because she would still be sleeping in “the bucket” when she was 18.

I got a bottle of Baby Jarro-Dophilis and started giving it to her in expressed breast milk everyday. I saw huge improvements in the color of her diapers, less struggling when she soiled her diapers and after a few weeks she pulled her legs up less when she was laid flat. I really believe this product helped get my little one out of the swing.

Unfortunately I didn’t discover this product until after we had already spent weeks clearing up the thrush, but I figure it can’t hurt and it keeps me from worrying about yeast levels in her system. Even now that she is 6mos, I still give it to her every couple of days.