Failure To Thrive

Not so worried about relieving the congestion at the top end

The baby is desperately constipated. Watching him in such pain has been awful and we have tried everything medical and otherwise in the book to sort out his intestines without much joy. But I think I’ve found the solution: with cold season upon us again Ben has suffered with a series of nasty colds and [...]

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Nose bags and penises

Three weeks ago this evening we had asparagus for supper. The next morning Ben, who at five months is still exclusively breastfed apart from something like a huge bowl of porridge at breakfast, a large bowl of baby rice at lunch and a dinner plate full of apple puree, had what I have come to [...]

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