Week's 7-9 - Tummy Trouble

At the end of week 7, Piper starting having MAJOR tummy troubles.  We would give her a bottle and she would get about a ounce down then start screaming bloody murder.  Then poop.  Almost every time.  I tried straight boob, expressed breast milk, and formula.  Nothing worked.  It got worse and worse so I called the doctor and he had us come in.  We went in on October 22 and she weighed 10 pounds 13 ounces.  The Doctor was concerned but not too much because of her awesome weight gain.  He couldn't find anything physically wrong but agreed that something wasn't right.  He said it was extremely rare but that he thought she had developed an allergy to my breast milk.  WHAT?  Surely not?  (insert sarcastic tone)  Piper had all the allergy side effects and it is common for mothers with allergy's to pass them down to their children.  Great.  Not what I wanted to pass down to her.  In fact, the main reason I was breast feeding was to prevent her from getting allergies.  Lovely.  So the doctor put her on soy formula.  We did that for 5 days.  She was somewhat better but still not normal.  I did my research and decided to go buy some hypo-allergenic (VERY EXPENSIVE) formula to see if that would be better.  It took a few days but we began to see a major improvement.  We went for her 2 month follow up a few days after that and the doctor agreed that I did the right thing.  Weeks 7-9 were VERY hard and trying weeks and we are oh so glad that they are behind us!!!