Dr Says...

Avery's rectum is the tightest she's ever seen in her 20+ years of practice! She tried to stick her pinky tip inside her to check her and could barely get it in. She said that's why she's having problems pooping. She "stretched" it and said the next few times she poops it could be bloody but not to worry. She said if she continues to have problems pooping them I could use a nose sucker outer (my word not hers lol) with warm water and baby soap and flush her out. Also I was worried about giving her so many suppositories but she said it's just fine and even some term babies have to have them often.
She doesn't think she's lactose intolerant and neither do I. I gave her an entire bottle of breast milk just to see what she would do before going to the Dr. and she didn't have any problems with it. She's not spitting up or having diarrhea and she said that's usually the first sign of lactose intolerance.
As for the formula she said it's up to me and what I'm comfortable in doing. She said Avery's not truly constipated because when she was checking her the poo that came out was runny not hard. She just has such a tight rectum that it's hard for her to push it out. With time and with Avery moving around more and more that will help. Until then it's fine to do whatever I have to, to get her to poop.
I explained how sometimes she'll just scream and then go right back to sleep. She gave her a prescription for some drops ( I don't remember the name). She said she's having spasms and that's common and that the drops should take care of it.
I think I'm going to continue with the alimentum and breast milk. Start the drops and see how this goes. If she starts to drastically improve I'll start mixing it with Neosure. Then if that goes well I'll switch her to Neosure because I feel like that's really what she needs.
She weighs 8# 7oz. She's gaining like crazy so that makes me more comfortable with keeping her on the alimentum for now.
Avery is really going to appreciate me sharing all her issues when she gets older!