[darclauz]

people do give the dumbest advice..... i had one person tell me not to change freddie's diaper till after she'd eaten. (mmmmmm... that's a comfortable way to partake.) someone else actually suggested that i should feed her in the bathtub, to improve cleanup. (which might have been more practical, come to think of it....)

people are dumb. but you spend more time around your child than even the doctors, and you should go with your gut.

when freddie was a baby, she started having what looked like bloody diapers. this freaked me out, and the doctor told me that she needed her formula changed. i told her i didn't think that was it........... she ignored me. the next doctor ignored me, too. it turned out that she had rectal prolapses, which basically means that she was pooping out some of her intestines. so THEN i told the doc that there was something wrong with that piece that kept coming out...and they ignored me again.

thanks to the marvels of a video recorder (and a baby video that she's NEVER gonna want to show at parties) i convinced them that she had a pollup the size of a jawbreaker. eventually, she did a self-pollupectomy (or however you spell that) and we went back to normal.

the point of this long gross story: i knew. they didn't. don't let 'em tell you different, when you know.