Has anyone switched baby from breastmilk to formula and saw improvement?
I exclusively breastfed my daughter for the first 5 months, then finally switched to Neocate (an amino acid formula with no whole proteins) because of multiple food allergies that we were not able to diagnose. I strongly believe in breastfeeding and cried and cried when I had to stop, but in our case it was definitely the right thing to do. My baby was miserable – terrible gas, hiccups for over an hour each day, projectile vomiting, screaming and thrashing around in her sleep, etc. I eliminated all of the top ten allergens from my diet, used all organic vegetables and cooked everything at home myself, and it made no difference. At first we thought it was just colic, but it got worse and worse until she was waking up screaming several times per hour ALWAYS – every day and every night, for months. The pediatrician finally sent us to a neurologist because she was worried my daughter was having seizures. (Thankfully, she wasn’t.) We tried Zantac in case it was reflux, and that made the pro
