My Poor Little Guy:(

There have been alot of ups and downs these past 6 weeks. Here is the deal. When we brought Silas home he was the best little guy. Sleeping great, never fussy, a cozy baby. At about two weeks something changed. He would cry super hard after eating and it would take me 30 minutes to calm him down. By then he would be back asleep and the cycle would repeat itself at the next feeding. I called the Dr. He said to try gripe water and that little babies were just fussy sometimes. I knew something was not right. After having two babies it just felt wrong for him to cry after eating. I started the gripe water and that helped a little. I went from giving it twice a day to almost every feeding. He was getting worse. The crying made it hard to take care of the other boys or go anywhere after feeding him.

At about five weeks my mom came over and I was feeding him. He started to scream and she said something was wrong. So, I called the Dr again and they made me an apointment to bring him in. In all this time he was having super green breastmilk poop (TMI unless you have had a newborn then you know all about looking at dirty diapers!). I knew that was wrong too. It is suposed to be a mustard yellow color if you just breastfeed. Monday came and I missed the Dr. apointment but I was not too worried because he was a little better over the weekend. That night I had pizza and after I feed him for the night he started screaming and then had blood in his diaper. I freaked out! I started looking on Medical sites to see if he needed to go to the ER. I was scared. Alot of the sites talked about having a dariy protien allergy. Both the older boys and I don't drink cows milk or eat much cheese, but are not super strict about butter and pizza and stuff with whey in it.

The next day I called the Dr back. He told me to take the babies temp and then try cutting out dariy. I did right away. I did not eat anything with butter, whey, cheese, milk anything made with dariy. The websites said sometimes it takes a week to work...well later that day the baby pooped yellow! He was really calm and stopped crying after I feed him. It was been five days of yellow poop and a brand new baby!! He is sooo much happier and almost never cries (except if you put him in a carseat..sigh. I am so happy but at the same time I feel so bad that he was in so much pain and I didn't help him. Our days and nights are a million times better and I am so thankful I figured it out. I have even been to walmart and Costco with all three boys and it went fine.