My son just turned 1 month today. He’s been exclusively breastfeeding since he was born. The last few days, he’s been screaming in pain and absolutely nothing calms him down. The doctor put him on reflux medicine last week and we have also been doing gas drops. I took him back to the doctor today and come to find out.. he has a dairy allergy.. the doctor made me stop breastfeeding for the next two weeks and put him on formula until all the dairy gets out of my system. I now have to throw out all of my milk stock pile that I pumped for when I return to work. I return back in two weeks.. my baby will have no pumped milk. I feel absolutely defeated. I have cried all day and ball when I give him his bottle. My heart is so broken. I was so proud that breastfeeding had been going so well and that I was able to have that special bonding time nursing my baby. I’m a young mom, 20, and everyone said that I wasn’t going to be able to breastfeed because I was young and I’d just give up. I worked so hard and absolutely love nursing. I’m so worried my baby won’t be able to go back to breastfeeding in two weeks since he is strictly on bottles until then. Has any other mom had to go through this? Please let me know if your baby was able to latch back on afterwards and any advice. My husband thinks I’m being ridiculous for being so upset but I can’t help it. I was so proud..

( I have nothing against formula-feeding mama’s. Think we are all bad ass! No matter how we feed our babies!)