Please NO MORE ALLERGIES!

For those of you that have heard me talk about my boys alot, you know that Grant has always been fussy and Gabriel has always been laid back and happy-go-lucky. For those of you who haven't heard, Grant has a milk allergy. When I was nursing him he basically would scream in pain anytime he was awake. Every once in a while he would show me a little smile, but in the same breath he would be crying again. I felt helpless and we finally fixed him up with a hypoallergenic formula...(that's 26 bucks a can.) Now he's a new baby. He wakes up happy, smiling and "talking." He still fights sleep like a mad man but I can deal with that. As long as he's not hurting and is happy.

Well, now that he's better I'm wondering if Gabriel has a milk allergy as well.He doesn't scream constantly like Grant was, but he NEVER cried before; even when he was hungry. Now he has episodes where I've done everything I can to make him happy and he still screams bloody murder. That along with my sweet baby looking at me like "mommy help me" is enough to break my heart. You can almost look in his eyes and see that the sparkle is gone from them. He use to be so excited over the smallest things. Now he just looks sad all the time. The crying along with a rash is now making me wonder. hmmmm....could it be? or am I overexagerating? I have read that sometimes milk allergies manifest themselves as excema in babies. The poor kiddo has had a rash on his scalp that, if I didnt know better, would look like cradle cap. But it has big red splotches under it with very defined lines. This has been going on for about two months, and I have been treating it as if it were cradle cap. I have washed it with Selson Blue for the last week or so, but it's not helping in the least. Now the "rash" has spread to his face, shoulder, chest, and today his elbow and knee. GREAT! just what we need is another baby hurting from milk allergy. Not to mention that what he would need is 26 bucks a can. That would be a whopping 350 bucks a month in formula for both of them. If that's what they need, I will be more than happy to get it to help them, but ouch!!! I hope I'm wrong. It's just weird. This looks a lot like excema to me, it looks painful. Also my dad and Matt both had milk Allergies as babies so it wouldn't surprise me. I made an appt. with dr. bies tomorrow and hopefully we can figure something out. I hope I don't have to stop nursing him. It broke my heart to stop nursing Grant, and I don't want stop with Gabe yet either. I want my happy little guy back, though. I feel so bad for him.