However, she is still having her "Milk Sensitivity" issue, which brings us to the reason for my crazy emotions. Apparently, my exclusion diet is not working. She is still continuing to have blood in her stool. The sad part is that the remedy is to just stop nursing. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. They put her on this NASTY formula called Nutramigen. It's hypo-allergenic and it costs A LOT! She does NOT like it. I can't get her to take more that four ounces at a time and it takes her about 30 minutes to do that. When she was nursing she would take at least six ounces in about 10 min. flat. It is so hard when she looks at me so sad and trys to nuzzle up to me to nurse. It's horrible because I know I have it, I just can't give it to her. So, the plan is to give her the yucky formula for two weeks and then they will take a stool sample and see if the blood is gone. I am continuing to pump just in case the Nutramigen does not work. I am being even more exclusive in my diet, now cutting out all soy, egg, corn, peanuts, shellfish and beef. There really isn't much for me to eat, but I am NOT wavering. Call me crazy, but nursing Charlotte is WAY to important to me. I can give up my ice cream, coke, chocolate and EVEN COFFEE for her. At the end of the two weeks, even if there is no blood, I am going to try to go back to nursing her for a few days and see if my exclusion diet is working. If the blood returns, we will go to a GI specialist and see what they think. It just doesn't make sense to me to give up nursing when my immunity is the best thing for her "allergies". Weird, huh? Well, it's been an emotional couple of days for me. At first when they put her on the formula I thought "woo hoo! bring on the food!" Now, I am more resolved than EVER to keep up with this crazy diet and give my baby girl what she needs!
I just love this picture of her - she is getting HUGE!
3 comments:
Oh my goodness Suz! I am soooo sorry! How frustrating! I can't imagine how you must feel right now. I am very proud of you for doing everything you can to continue to breast feed her. I agree - it does seem weird that your breast milk would be just taken out of the picture when that seems like the most logical way to keep her healthy. I mean, that IS the way God designed it. Anyways, I know I don't have to tell you that. I will definitely be thinking of you in the next two weeks as you eat like a rabbit and go through the emotional ride of not nursing Charlie. Love you girl. Hang in there!
I've run in to my own nursing crisis this past month...it stinks! it's so hard to know what to do sometimes and whether to go with your instinct or what the dr. tells you. hope you're hanging in there!!
Didn't get a chance to post a comment when you first put this up. How's it going? It sounds so aweful. The 2 weeks is almost up though. I'll look forward to hearing what the results are - hopefully positive!
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