Okay to cut this short and sweet. DS has vomited since birth after feeds, not always straight away and can continue vomiting for quite a while after birth. At 8 weeks was still not putting on weight, so ended up in hospital where they diagnosed reflux. Was put on ranitidine and domperidone. 10 days later still not putting on weight, so was given formula to top up and because of blood in some nappies was given nutramigen (hypoallergenic formula). One week later where I bf and then topped up with nutramigen had put on 1lb and 2ozs. Continued with this and he continued to put on weight and I increased amounts of nutramigen. Christmas and NY were a nightmare - he didn't sleep well, was constantly uncomfortable and crying and having humoungous nappies as well as continuing to wet through (i.e. wet through nappies and clothes to bed) at night. Read about links between dairy and soya intolerance, so I gave up soya (already don't eat dairy or wheat for myself) on NY Day. Then mid-week decided to trial h-a formula only for 3 days - DS became much more contented, slept better and did not wet through for two nights. Went back to bf yesterday and last night he wet through and has been really uncomfortable today.
My questions are - if your baby has allergies/intolerances, and you breastfed, how long did exclusions from diet take to have effect and how did you get them diagnosed?
Thanks so much - I really want to continue bfing but can't take much more of my LO being uncomfortable!