Hi, >What exactly is so terrible about explosive mucousy stools? >Eventually they will stop. It ain't worth stopping breastfeeding for >that. What long term data do we have that Alimentum is safe? And IMHO, even "colic" is preferable to a severely allergic baby - they grow out of the worst colic, generally but food allergies can be lifelong. And I say this after having had a severely colicy, breastfed baby who screamed for many hours a day for the first 4 months of her life. Maybe on soy formula, she'd have screamed less, OTOH, my reasoning was that if mother's milk upset her so, what could she be like on formula? I wasn't prepared to take the risk. It seems there is a bit of a double standard amoung some HCPs here: if you are formula feeding and your baby is colicy, you are told it is "only" colic and not to worry because she'll grow out of it (once they've tried a couple of formulas to see if that makes any difference). If, OTOH, you are breastfeeding, it seems suddenly to be seen as a major problem for which you must wean. Anyone else come across this? -- Anna (Mummy to Emma, born 17th Jan 1995, Alice, born 11th Sept 1996, ??? due 18th April 1998) Email: [log in to unmask] Web Page: http://www.ratbag.demon.co.uk/anna