Upate and My Baby and I project - Week 5

This has been a tough week for Andrew (and Mommy and Daddy too). Poor little man has been really fussy for the past couple of weeks and we're not entirely positive why. He showed signs of a cows milk protein intolerance around 8 weeks. At that point I stopped drinking milk but still ate other diary products. Before this happened we discovered he'd get super fussy after I had eaten any chocolate or had anything with red pasta sauce. Those are foods that commonly cause fussiness in breastfed babies. Then last Thursday I gave him a bottle of milk which I had frozen back when I wasn't watching my diet at all. A couple hours after he ate it and until the next day he screamed like we'd never heard before. I finally got so worried I took him to the pediatrician. Of course as soon as we pulled into the doctors office parking lot he fell asleep, slept through the long wait then was just all happy smiles while the doctor checked him out! She did find that his belly seemed to be super gassy and we figure it was due to something in the milk. That Saturday I had cheese a couple of times and his fussiness returned full force. At that point I decided, as hard as it would be for me to do, I'd go diary free. No milk, no cheese, no butter and no foods with any milk products as a major ingredient. Oh and no chocolate, no red sauce and nothing that is acidic like red sauce either. It's only been a few days but has proven to be really difficult but if it makes him happier I'll continue without one complaint. Everything documented about cows milk protein intolerances says it can take up to 2 weeks to get out of my system and another 2 weeks to get out of his system. We're hoping things clear out much faster than that, it's so hard to see him get so upset and not be able to calm down. It's also entirely possible that the milk isn't the only thing making him upset and that he's just going through a super fussy phase. We're hoping for the best, when he's happy, he's so happy and smiley and we just can't get enough of him! (We also still love him when he's screaming!) Here are some recent pictures and our weekly project photo. I love his little bear jacket so we did a "Hoods up" shot for the week. He's been eating his hands a lot so this is the best I got!