Infant Bowel Movements

[B'sgirl]

I know it's rare to catch celiac in infants, but I was wondering if anyone whose child has celiac had dark flecks in their breast-fed only baby. Maybe this is a rare situation because I do not have celiac, but my oldest son does and I'm wondering if my daughter has it. She is 4 months old. I avoided gluten my last month of pregnancy and until she was a month old, and I only ate things with white flour until a few weeks ago. But now she seems constipated and uncomfortable and there were dark flecks in her stools this morning. I have a picture I can post if it helps.

[wsieving]

Well I probably won't be much help, but our DD is 13 months approaching diagnosis of Celiac Disease. We are 99% sure that is what she has, just waiting to see a pediatric GI in a couple of weeks. She was exclusively breastfed also, but her stools at that time were pretty normal the first month or two. She started getting constipated a little after that (before starting solids). But I do not ever remember her having flecks of anything in her stool. Now that she exhibits the symptoms of Celiac that are so obvious, we can look back on her early months and totally see that she has always shown some signs. I do not think it is uncommon to see symptoms that early, but I think it may be extremely difficult to get a diagnosis that young.

Have you tried eating everything gluten-free for a couple of weeks to see if that improves her bowel movements? I hope you figure something out!