Dear Lactnetters, I am breastfeeding my 3rd baby sucessfully except for one development. My daughter at 3 mo developed occassional mucus/bloody stools. At 5 months it was finally diagnosed as probably milk or soy protien intolerance through my own diet protiens passing into the milk. I was recommended to try to breastfeed for a year or if I had to wean to go to nutramigen or pregestamil. I had not planned on weaning I nursed my last daughter until 3yo. Now I have been told I will be sent to Korea for 51/2 weeks unacompanied to Camp Casey in the demilitarized zone on the North Korean boarder to fill in while one doctor leaves and another one arrives. I am in the active duty army. My command told me to start my daughter on formula and if her gut bleeds they will make it a medical emergency that I not be sent. My daughter is 6 mo old now. I have been cutting back on the dairy and the soy. Also pumping extra milk and freezing it incase I have to go. No blood or mucus in the stool on the formula I have subsituted at the daycare for my breastmilk. But foul gas, foul stool and colic has developed, I stopped giving it to her after one week at the request of my husband. When I go she will be 81/2 mo old and 91/2 almost 10 mo when I return. What are the chances she will go back to the breast? She really loves breastfeeding, sleeps with me at night. Actually fought the bottle for the first 2 mo I went back to work where I had to feed her at drop off , lunch and pick up because she would go all day and only take 1 oz from the bottle, she is doing better now around 9 oz while I am gone. Please if anyone has experience with a baby this age and prolonged abcense please write me back. Thanks Cynthia S. Marske DO *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html