Well. He IS cute, anyway!
Evan is very high needs. I believe this to be mostly due to near constant intestinal distress. I am not positive what it is that is causing his stools to be abnormal for a breastfed baby, but he has diahrea, green stools and has had blood. The stool sample we sent in came back “negative”. Don’t ask me to clarify that, I have no idea what that means.
An internet search has pointed me in the direction of food allergy, most likely dairy protiens. Dairy protiens are in nearly everything and it’s been an adventure (to put it nicely) for me to try to adjust my diet so drastically. It takes 2-3 weeks for the proteins I’ve ingested to clear our systems, so it will take at least that long to see improvement. Just when I think I’m doing everything right, and I think his stools look better, then he gets a bad day of fussiness and a bad diaper or two and I realize taht I’ve tripped up somewhere and the 2 weeks essentially starts over. It’s discouraging to say the least.
I had hoped that changing my diet would help, but over all, it has not. I’ve decided to try to get in to the ped next week if possible, even though I’m sick to death of drs appts. At his age, the only way to determine an allergy is by elimination, but I want to see if there are other tests that can be run, or if there is some medication that can heal his gut faster so as to stop the bleeding. My fear is that he is allergic to other things as well like eggs or wheat and THEN what will I eat? I’ll have to go vegan I guess 
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He seems to get the correlation that eating causes his stomach to hurt, so most feeding sessions are a battle. He knows he’s hungry, but he knows what is going to happen if he does eat so he’s not too keen to do it and often is just fussy and refuses completely. WHen he does this, I have to put him down or hand him off and pump a bottle which he will then take pretty well and then spit 1/4 back up.
As I type this, we’ve had a rare relaxed normal feeding session that is a huge relief and a nice way to end a very bad day.
So if you’ve wondered where I am, or when I would update, I can tell you. Attempt to feed, swaddle, change, rock & wrestle. Lather, rinse, repeat from 7 am until 9 pm when he goes down for the night.
But he is really cute, even when he’s wailing.
