3/3/12

Sophie has continued to have a raw bleeding butt, mucous blood tinged stools, projectile vomiting and FUSSSSSSY.

I finally had enough. I was at the breaking point. I couldn't stand to watch my 2 month old go through such pain! I spent one WHOLE day on the phone trying to stay polite while not crying from frustration. We got Sophie an appointment at a GI doc March 26th. We also saw our pedi and got her 2 prescriptions for her butt and a prescription for a new formula.

We also have a tentative diagnosis (tentative because the GI doc has to agree) MSPI with reflux.

 MSPI: milk soy protein intolerance

It's a whole world that I haven't been in since I was little, too little to know how involved it is. My sister Emily had issues with soy, dairy, egg and gluten etc

The neocate formula is an amino acid formula for babies with allergies. We are currently on day 2 and we have already seen an improvement! Although I didn't realize that the rice cereal we use to thicken the formula for her reflux, contains soy!! So we are switching to a new milk & soy free brand.

So hopefully Sophie is on the mend. I'm looking forward to the GI doc to have some final answers and a diagnosis on paper. But as long as she continues to get better, I don't care how it works out!