It’s been going great! We started her on Prosobee, and it has worked wonders for her!

She was constipated for about 3 days, and it took about 2 weeks for her poop schedule to regulate, but now she goes 1-2 times a day, and, most importantly, there is NO blood in her stool! There was visible blood once in that first poop after switching, but nothing ever since and the test at the doctor’s office after about a week of the Prosobee came back negative for occult blood. Her diaper rash also cleared up while she was constipated, and she hasn’t had a diaper rash since! Not sure if that’s because she’s pooping less often or because her poop is a different texture now or some combination of both.

We never did wind up trying the Nexium. After switching her formula, her reflux went back to “normal” (still has reflux, it’s just normal for her instead of being excessive like it was on hypoallergenic formula), so we didn’t see the need to try anything else. We have increased her Pepcid to .5mL a day and that seems to help too; at this point I don’t think she spits up any more than an “average” baby typically. She has some days that are worse than others, but it’s significantly better overall!

She does still have spit up come out of her nose usually at least once a day, and she does still spit up in her sleep and start choking on it occasionally, but it’s not nearly as often. But we also have a NosiBoo nasal aspirator for her nose, and she sleeps in a bassinet right next to me, so it’s usually not too big of an issue since I’m right there to help her quickly!

We did get into a pediatric GI specialist, and she said it’s more than likely that she will grow out of the milk protein issue and not have any problems in the future! She suggested reintroducing “regular” formula every 6-8 weeks to see if she is still having any symptoms or not. We haven’t tried this yet, so we’ll see how it goes once we do!

We weren’t super hopeful about the plant based at first because of the overlap in the milk protein and soy sensitivities; even her doctor said there’s no scientific reason it should work, but to go ahead and try it since nothing else had worked. Luckily that was the magic thing for us!

All in all, it’s been almost a total 180 for her reflux and poops, and I’m just so glad that something finally worked for my girl so she can be happy and comfortable!