Help please! I need help with my 5month old.

For starters, my son was born on Nov. 11 He was 8lb. 8oz. healthy baby boy. He took to breastfeeding wonderfully and has been doing great ever since (except for those first few weeks of course – painful!). He is now 5.5 months old and over 19lbs! So, we are not having an issue with him gaining weight. I am just confused on what might be bothering him.

I always noticed that when I would feed him he would squirm and arch his back and fussed quite a bit more than normal….spit up ALOT and had a ton of loose BM. But, once he turned about 3.5 months the fussiness increased and so did the spitting up and so did the BM. His dirty diapers never have a texture to them….always watery and he was having like 6 or 7 a day and most being blowouts. He would squirm more than normal while feeding him. I called the dr. they said it was normal. I had brought up milk intolerance and shke sort of dismissed it. Well, at 4 months it was so bad, I called them and told them how it had increased and she said she wanted to see him…..the diarhea was not normal. So….

I went to the dr. and she prescribed Zantac….actually the generic kind and he was to take 2 ml 3 times a day and this was to help with the fussiness and uncomfortableness, spitting up. She also asked that I eliminate dairy for 3 weeks to see if that helped with the diarhea. I did all of this and amazingly the first few days were awesome! I thought he was fixed….lol! The past month or so he has done a ton better than before, but isn’t exactly fixed….he has some fussier days than normal but he has always been a good sleeper and he wasn’t spitting up quite as much. I had elimated all forms of dairy.

Well, I called her on Monday to give her an update…..the spitting up was better, the fussiness was better, the squirming was better and the BM had improved but he is still having 1 or 2 wet loose stools a day. There is never a seedy diaper, always yellow water basically. (TMI, sorry) So, she has now asked that I eliminate soy in addition to the dairy for 2 more weeks.

I saw the list on this forum of things that I can eat and that is wonderful! Thank you. First, do you think we are doing the right thing to treat him? The medicine in combination with the elimination of dairy and soy? He actually for the past two days has been spitting up much more than normal and I’m not sure why…..but, today is really the first day of being soy free. Also, I have a wedding this weekend and will be out of town the whole weekend. The bride has already asked that my meal be dairy/soy free – God bless her, but what am I going to do the rest of the time? I cannot find any info on what to order when dining out at fast food or regular dining.

Any help at all would be soooooo appreciated!! I hate that he has had these diapers for so long and want so badly to help him. Thanks again.

-Ann