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Take her to Children's Hospital if you are in the states. If not then take her to your equivelent. You need to be an advocate for her. You are her mother and you know something is wrong. Wether it is serious or not, you need an actual answer. Doctors usually go with the obvious. It isn't until you push that they begin to look at other things. Maybe she has reflux, or an allergy, maybe she is having mouth or throat pain- why that would make her vomit is questionable. I know how you must feel, your baby is hurting from something and you haven't been able to protect her from that yet. We have a three year old and our son is 9 and a half months. I can only imagine your frustration. Speak up to the doctor and don't let him, or her, tell you nothing is wrong when you know something is. If need be, BF her in the office to demonstrate exactly what is happening. Sometimes that can be helpful. Don't feel self concious about BF'ing in front of the pediatrician either. He or she is there for that kind of thing too and should be more than willing to witness firsthand. I am so sorry you and your little one have to go through this. If you want to talk more you can email me. Here is code for my email address. amanda venable at msn, then a period and then come, without the e. If that made it past the filters then I must be a genius.

Hey mjvdec01 - thanks for your comments. I think the main problem is the fact that she now associates milk of any kind with being violently sick!! Poor bub. It has been the most stressfull week of my life! Brief update - I got her to take a small amount of expressed breast milk this morning - not much but a start! She also put my nipple in her mouth and sucked a few times before cracking it completely so that has to be an improvement from not going anywhere near it. Am going to try her on expressed milk again at 11 and hold her in the breast feeding position and then see if she will take breast at all? Will keep you updated - I will never whinge about her wanting the boob all the time again! God I miss nursing her - didnt think I would this much.... :)

I am so relieved to hear that. I hope things continue to go well. You seemed so upset. Keep me updated. :)

Well I am about to go home and try again with boob! Will let you know tomorrow - I have been so upset - I guess it just seemed soooo overwhelming - if she was just sick but nursing I dont think I would have gotten so panicked! Talk soon! :)

OK UPDATE:
Got home from work yesterday arvo and tried her on boob again - not interested AT ALL... was pretty upset and discouraged - Poor thing was very screamy yesty too. BUT!!! Doc called back - have results from poo test - she has a nasty called Cryptosporidiosis - yucky parasite that attacks the intestines - I think she may have got it in a public pool - its passed through poo - like if a kidy pooed in pool - apparently chlorine doesnt always kill it. ANYWAY good news is I know what we are dealing with - bad news is there is no treatment except TLC and panadol - could take up to another 2 weeks to get out of her system! :( AND another exciting update - she went on booby for a short time this morn!!! Tried again before work but she wasnt interested - but its still progress yes???? I really hope she feels better soon!!! Lots of love, rest and as much booby milk I can trick her into taking is the answer - bit reluctant to take her back to swimming classes now but apparently this is pretty common?????

That is great that you know what it is, but awful there is nothing you can really do to get rid of it quickly. You do need to contact the facility where she has her swim classes, and they need to do a proper cleaning of the pool. If it were me, It were me, I wouldn't take her back to that pool. I would be afraid everytime I took her in. Anyway, I'm glad you have it figured out.

Hey mjvdec01 - yeah the doctor actually rang dept of health and reported the pool for testing - apparently they have too - I know - I am a bit scared to ever take her back too!!

UPDATE: Well FINALLY my little bub is ALMOST back to normal - she is back on the boob and making up for lost time haha - It is a huge relief and I think the breastmilk has helped get her better too - she was a bit scared at first like taking a few sips then coming off crying then going back on - but now I have to pry her off haha - I must admit I am very glad to be nursing her again :)