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• I cut all diary, soy, rice; eggs from my diet for 7 weeks with no avail.
• she has mucus and blood, mucus from week 3 blood from week 6 after her first rotovirus vaccination.
• she started with small specks of blood, which eventually turned to thicker mucus blobs since being on formula .
• has had blood even after being on an amino acid formula.
• she cries in pain randomly for ten minutes here and there and then stops.

Has anyone had anything similar that was not allergies? I’m completely at a loss and I need answers

I have a great milk supply, but as early as 3 weeks old we started seeing the mucus, then the intense diarrhoea, unsettled, pain and discomfort.
6 weeks we saw spots of blood, minimal but there.
For 6 weeks I cut all diary and soy, 3 of them I also cut eggs and rice.
We still saw the discomfort, runny and explosive poo.

After feeling beyond defeated we were convinced to go onto Neocate, after trying 1 bottle of hydrolysed and she had a bad night (coincidence I don’t know but we saw blood 48 hours later so I panicked and didn’t try another bottle)

She is drinking neocate but hates it and I don’t blame her, it’s smells and tastes fucking horrendous.

She’s dropped how much she drinks by about 100 ml a day, but otherwise seems happier less fussy and upset in the stomach.. except we still see hectic mucus.

I hate this, I hate not feeding her so much i cry every day when she roots for the breast. I am still pumping because I’m too scared to stop.
I want to feed my child but I don’t know what to do.

Would you go full blown elimination again? And see ?
Would you stick out neocate hope she drinks more and the mucus and stomach eventually heals?
Would you retry a hydrolysed formula further in case it does work?

I feel like my baby isn’t getting enough from Neocate and I also fear she doesn’t connect to me as much now I’m not feeding her

I feel like I have failed her, and I feel like a terrible mother.

My baby has suddenly started fighting my boobs. 6 weeks old and today refused to feed, fighting, kicking and punching. The worst part is she WANTS to latch and eat, but I have a massive supply and a hectic milk ejection that just sprays her constantly, if she isn’t in her right mood she can’t handle the let downs.

I am considering having to use a bottle and pump exclusively to get her to eat. Are there any suggestions? Any experiences moving to exclusively pumping and bottle feeding?

She’s also had signs of lactose overload with frothy explosive poos and GI discomfort,

I’m heartbroken, I feel like I have failed her and can’t feed my baby when originally breast feeding was something we did together just right.

Today was hard.

My 4 week old girl has a weird pattern forming between 3-6 AM she is inconsolable, uncomfortable & fussy.
For context she doesn’t want to eat (feeds at 3 am) but then will only go down for 30 mins before waking straining, sounding like a pterodactyl and writhing.

This goes on all morning until 7 am roughly. She’s tired she wants to sleep but can’t.

I am close to certain she suffers infant dsychezia and is straining hard core to poop, as she does this straining a LOT & is stoked after she passes stool.
She doesn’t vomit, barely even possets and doesn’t suffer reflux (far as we know) she happily sleeps in her bassinet when she has a stretch during the day, no issues.

My question I suppose is, is anyone else going through something similar?
anyone have a baby that hates sleep at that random time frame?
Anyone else think their baby has infant dyschezia?
First time mum who is severely sleep deprived. 🥺

Are we doing something wrong

My Bub is 3 weeks old tomorrow

It’s been tough as she seems so unhappy or uncomfortable all the time

She is always straining and beating down, well before she passes stool.

Accompanied by this god awful sound like s banshee 🥺 like pain

She is always very stiff, holding so much tension & back arching

I miss seeing her happy & relaxed

We burp, we tried all the gas drops, massage, holding upright after feeds etc

Osteopath & midwife say it doesn’t present as reflux more colic - but the stiffness and sounds has me so worried

A month before we can get into a paediatrician

Am I over thinking normal newborn colic/gas/digestion?

We were told it could be mild Laryngomalacia or nfant dyschezia but no one can confirm and I’m starting to panic

FTM 🥺