Good luck, Rebecca. That is pretty upsetting that he's still at this point after how hard you've been working on this. They can probably get the stool sample from the diaper--I know for our stool sample that the GI wanted, they just asked me to put some from a diaper into a little container and bring it in within 24 hours, I think. He happened to poop right after we left the exam room, so I just left it there right then.
I can't remember from my other kids at what point in the solids introduction their poops became formed instead of the peanut butter type mush, but Henry's got there a couple days ago. On the one hand, they look great and just where they should be according to the chart I found on one GAPS website, but they were coming out in little balls through out the day and night and he seemed to have to strain a little, so I've cut back on how much squash he's getting and upped his chicken and broth amounts and we're back to mush this morning. The others were SO much easier to clean up, but we'll see if he can sleep better this way. Anyone have any comparison--at this age, what should they be looking like? Is he too young for formed poops still?
I think I'm making pretty concentrated stock because I only get about 2 or 2.5 quarts from each chicken (5 pound chickens). And I can easily use a quart to make Henry's meals for the week, which doesn't leave me much for cooking soups--I would need to cook a chicken about every other day, which is just really expensive. And I feel like I'm not eating as much broth as I should. When everyone talks about drinking a cup of broth with their meals, etc. . . I maybe get 1 cup a day, usually in the form of a soup of some sort. Is that enough?
our farm isn't delivering the next 2 weekends because of the holidays, but first of Jan, I'm going to order some extra bones to do more beef broth. I need more ground beef anyway, so I'll just get a few items seperately instead of ordering another cow portion. It takes us a lot longer to go through all the roasts and steaks.
