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Ever since we brought Parker home from the hospital he has cried.  If he was awake, he was crying, unless he had a bottle in his mouth.  He hardly slept, and cried from the second he woke up to the second he went down.

People told me he was probably gassy or had colic and gave me lots of ideas of how to soothe him, and nothing worked.

Also, he was spitting up a lot of his formula, passed A LOT of gas, and his poops were all liquid.

I was concerned that maybe his formula was disagreeing with him.

He got to go to a doctor a couple of days ago, after I finally quit trying to contact the PED who had seen him in the hospital.  I’d been trying to get a hold of her since Before thanksgiving with no luck, so I finally just chose another doctor.

The doctor asked me about his sympotms, then asked what I was feeding him and listened to his enitre little body with a stethescope.

He said he thinks Parker is lactose intolerant and said we should try changing his formula.  He said it could take 5 days to a week to notice any real difference.

Well, here we are a couple of days later.  Parker slept 7 hours last night, was up for 3, and has been asleep ever since (exept when I wake him up to feed him).  He’s not passing gas as much (only one poot so far today) his poop is still soft, but is much more solid than it was, and he’s not spitting up as much after he eats.

He still seems to be fussy when he is awake, but overall changing his formula seems to have helped.