So my 10 month old baby finally weaned from the breast to nutramigen about 2 weeks ago. I was so relieved to have freedom from nursing around the clock. I was still nursing him at night and he was cuddly with me in the day and it was great! Until I realized that after starting the nutramigen, he hadn't pooped in 3 days. Then he had exploding diarrhea and some vomiting for the days following. It was bad. Our pediatric gi doc (who'd recommended the nutramigen) was on vacation all last week, and the best advice the family care doctor could give was "start breastfeeding again." It was good enough advice except my milk supply was very low (only enough for nighttime feeds), and he was refusing solids altogether! I saw her on Wednesday. I nursed and nursed for Wed, Thurs, Fri, and supplemented with defrosted bm to satisfy him. I was almost out of ebm on Friday so I called back to the GI office, and the doc there never deals with kids (just a gi doc) and he gave us alimentum as a last resort. We tried it on Friday but the diarrhea came back. He was doing fine as soon as I'd switched him to the breastmilk and diarrhea again with the alimentum so it was obvious it was an allergy. Saturday I'd run out of options, and without enough breastmilk I was running short on options! I took him to the ER, nobody else was open. He was crying out of hunger, but still refusing solids and nursing on my empty breasts at every opportunity. We talked to the ER doc but she was clueless. She offered him applesauce, but saw firsthand that he wouldn't entertain even a little of it! She wrote me a prescription for Neocate which seemed like a good idea, but Walgreens said they couldn't have any until Monday! I went to the grocery store and bought goats milk (several friends suggested it). I nursed him through the night, and gave him the last bag of ebm at 6am. I nursed him again at 9 and at 11 he was starving. I gave him the goats milk and he took it without any objections! He started rubbing his face, but I thought he was just tired. He took a nap, and at 3:45 I gave him another bottle of it and immediately he broke out in hives around his mouth, wherever the milk had touched his skin!

So.. I think I can nurse him enough tonight, I'm praying he won't cry too much, and I will call the gi doc in the morning. I'm at my wits end!!!! Please, any advice would be great. The neocate is soooo expensive, we're on wic as it is, I can't afford $50 a can even if we need it!