We love our Pediatrician. She's a great influence on our parenting and a great advocate for the ways her patients and their parents wished they could raise their children. We took Alan in for a check on a small lump on the back of his head, not an uncommon thing on Robert's side of the family, and came out having had a in-depth conversation about Alan's fussiness. He was in rare form at the office that day and our doctor was quick to alert us to some possible problems. Firstly, she doesn't believe in colic. Second, she narrowed his fussiness to one or both of these: an allergic reaction to cow's milk found in Angie's day-to-day diet and/or infant acid-reflux.
We did a run of tests and they came back positive for the milk allergy. The reflux is still to be determined. I guess you could say we're relieved, but as a friend of ours put it, "the hits keep coming". We're happy there could be a simple solution to make him happier and more comfortable, but he can't catch a break. So we've gone milk-less in Angie's intake and put him on some medication to help with acid-reflux. One way or another we're closer to putting more smiles on Alan's face and helping him get more sleep.
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