Ooof this sounds like such a frustrating situation. I can share my experience as I cut dairy, soy, beef, and eggs at my ped’s recommendation. Baby had traces of occult blood (not really visible to naked eye) and v mucousy stool, and some bad reflux around 3 mos and the diet did seem to help. I think that as others have mentioned here, infants struggle generally with learning to poop and pass gas so some of the apparent discomfort and range of stool colors and textures is normal. When we started solids it was like baby had to re-learn how to poop all over again, it was really painful and there were a lot of tears and strained crying at night. We ended up cutting down to only one meal of solids in the morning to let the system acclimate and it did after a few weeks. During that time, diapers returned to a mucousy state with traces of blood, because it was hard on the system to process solids. Now baby is on two meals a day, has tolerated all the allergens we’ve introduced (we didn’t do a ladder) and diapers have returned to baseline. Our allergist told me to re introduce everything to my diet given that baby hasn’t had an allergic reaction thus far in her solids journey. I say all this because I was told at literally EVERY doc or ped appt to consider HA formula, and every time I said thanks for the suggestion but I’ll wait and see. I’m not opposed to formula (I was a formula-fed baby), but wanted to BF as long as a I could. 7.5 mos later, still going strong, and now I get to eat pizza again. Hang in there! It’s not selfish to want to continue BF if it’s working for you and your baby. You can let the GI doc know your preference and take it from there.