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[quote=Anonymous]OP. Thank you PPs, I am still looking for light at the end of the tunnel, and it has been a long 8 months.  I was on a milk, egg, soy free diet and when I stopped we first put her on partial nutramigen and partial pumped frozen BM. Nutramigen caused a lot of poops, and diaper rash and baby hated it, then ped GI suggested Gerber soothe which she has been on for a few weeks now exclusively since I have exhausted my pumped milk supply.

But despite being on Prevacid since her intake has not gone up, ped GI said either we do an endoscopy or just put her on elecare and if it is esophagitis due to milk protein then it will heal in 2-3 weeks and intake will increase. Problem is she hates elecare as well so currently mixing 50-50 with Gerber soothe.

The only reason I was a little focused on the solids is because of the low milk intake. I did have a tiny breakthrough where I got rid of the plastic bib, just put a cloth one on, laid a mat near her a play area and finger fed her the sweet potato purée. It's going to take me a while to introduce new foods since I have to follow the 4 day wait rule. I also had DH run and get baby teething water and miraculously when I started eating they in front of her, she took it from me and nibbled a few times so keeping fingers crossed.

We had tried the syringe earlier and that made DD angry. I dare not bring anything in a spoon near hear as she angrily swipes it away :(((

Who would donate milk, where would I go for that?

Ordering a variety of sippy cups right now since I don't know which one she will take easily. Also will look into getting a second ped GI appt and ask the ped if she can suggest a feeding clinic, an ENT and a speech therapist.

Any other suggestions please keep them coming.[/quote]

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