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That sounds similar to my daughters reactions. My son was out the gate crying all day (not an exaggeration). My daughter got progressively worse until she had her first reaction and she is so easy it was obvious. Good luck this road isn't easy but it's worth it.

Aw, your poor LO. Yes, that sounds like a dairy reaction. My LO's diapers also went from mustard yellow to green and slimy to flecked with blood (looked like coffee grounds) from birth to about 6 weeks. Luckily once we dropped dairy and soy, things got so much better. Hope the same happens for you and your LO.

Yep. I would grab some nutramigen and use that for a few days and pump and label as dairy contaminated while the dairy works out of your system.

Definitely sounds like MSPI to me. My daughter was "colicky" on breastmilk but didn't have blood in her stool until we switched to formula. Nutramigen was a lifesaver for us! I hope she's feeling better soon

@charlotte: sorry! We deal with multiple food issues in our home. I am celiac. Dd1 is dairy intolerant and DD2 has MSPI and is on nutramigen. I stopped BFing at 4 weeks after trying to be dairy and soy free (it was awful for me). So lots of empathy and sympathy from me!

@charlotte: yeah we have a 20 month old and an eleven week old so I totally get it.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this but glad you got it sorted out! My LO was MSPI an on nutramigen from about 2 mo. It's expensive and that sucks (best price I found was target when they were running sales). She grew out of it and now at 16mo is eating normally

@charlotte: We didn't try Nutramigen but it definitely takes a little while to clear out baby's system, so as long as she seems to be improving (sounds like she is if the blood is gone), I wouldn't worry. Sorry you are dealing with this but I'm glad you got some answers. I totally feel you, I went on a crazy elimination diet for LO1 but I think I would probably go for formula if it happens with a future LO. FYI, my LO had bad MSPI and other sensitivities (which we were never able to figure out) and she was able to eat everything with no residual problems by 14 months.

I'm sorry that what you've got is MSPI, but it sounds like you're on the right track! It can take a few weeks for things to even out. I'd give it more time.

@charlotte: I'm so sorry you're still having such issues! I'll try to give a brief summary here but I don't know how helpful it will because because my LO actually had no trouble sleeping at this time. This period of her life was her best sleep until 14 mo when she finally STTN.

Basically for us-- I had low supply so I was breastfeeding and supplementing, then for reasons that prob aren't important here I moved to EP'ing and supplementing with regular formula. At some point she started refusing her morning bottle every day but she was still taking the others so we didn't worry about it. About 2 weeks later she started getting really fussy taking other bottles. She would turn her head and push the bottle away from her face. For a day or two I was chill about it but over the course of a few days it got to the point where she was refusing ALL bottles. I would sort of push the issue and that just made it worse. She would eat a little then, but only with a LOT of sobbing, and she started crying as soon as she would see a bottle. I called her ped and took her in and they said maybe reflux and gave her zantac. It did nothing. Things got worse. She hardly ate for another 3 days until my husband realized if we did a "dream feed" (I.e. feed her right after she fell asleep) she'd down a whole bottle. So we started doing that for all her feeds to get her to eat and she went back to normal amounts but still refusing to eat AT ALL awake. I called the ped again after the weekend and they blew me off so I fired them and got a new ped. She immediately told me this was very not normal. She sent her for a swallow study, a referal to a ped gi doc, and told me in the meantime to cut all dairy/soy out of my diet and do nutramigen. Within 4 days she was eating willingly awake again (albeit with a lot of requirements but I don't think those are important to this convo). We kept the referral appts and she had no issues with her swallow study. The GI doc was super unhelpful. He said maybe reflux, probably MSPI, but also probably I'd made the issue worse by being anxious about it. I don't know that he was wrong but also fuck off dude, my 3 month old is refusing to eat and I'm scared and OF COURSE I'M ANXIOUS. He switched us to prevacid and her eating got better. We tried to wean her off of prevacid at 9 months and there was much puking. We finally got her off at 15 months. This whole time we followed the rule of keeping her upright 20-30 min after every feeding, even MOTN feedings. At 13-14 months we did dairy trials and she is fine with all dairy. We haven't done legit soy trials (like-- give her edamame) because we just don't eat much soy. But we don't check labels and she has had some items with soy sauce or soy additives and she's fine.

So my takeaway was that she most likely had reflux AND mspi and some combo of that made her stomach hurt badly enough that she would rather starve than be in pain. The combo of prevacid + nutramigen seems to have solved the physical part of her issue (she still had lingering fear issues about eating until about 9 months I believe). She's now grown out of both and eats normally, except that she just doesn't like milk so she doesn't drink it (or formula, we just feed her normal food for calories). I hope that helps! Feel free to ask any questions you have.