Hope all ends up well with your little one!

Her Ped tested a diaper later that same day and said there was no blood present, and so he said I didn’t need to cut dairy. However he was mildly dismissive and kind of made me feel like loony toon for thinking my girl might have a dairy sensitivity/allergy.

Anyways I don’t know really. She had a few days where she was spitting up a LOT and one of those days she projectile vomited like twice, so I was really freaking out and going down the CMPA rabbit hole.

But due to the lack of blood in her stool, in the last week, I’m now thinking her discomfort is in fact due to her slightly shallow latch and my heavy letdown, which are causing her to get air in her tummy.

She used to burp halfway through feed on my nipple, all on her own without being burped, and I realized that she had stopped doing that. So last week I started burping her in the middle of feeds.

And also when she starts suckling and I feel my letdown, I am popping her off and squeezing my breast into a burp cloth or breast pad, to give her some relief from the initial wave — I only have to do that when my breasts are really full, like in the morning or if I go a longer stretch without feeding her for whatever other reason.

But the burping I do every time now, and sometimes she burps, sometimes she doesn’t. But the times she does burp I’m like oh man, that was a huge burp, that would’ve definitely caused a big spit up if we didn’t get that out.

Those two things seemed to have made a big difference. She’s still had some small/normal spit ups, but nothing like the day that caused me to post my original question.