Alternatives to neocate

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My six month old has cpm allergy. He was ebf before I started to wean him. I am really struggling to get him to take neonate, have tried going up so slowly, it has taken nearly a month to get to 50/50 ebm and neonate and now he is starting to bottle refuse. I am back to work in a fortnight and plan to continue to bf him and express, but I am not sure that I can maintain a dairy (and egg and soy) free diet and express until he is two and can go onto another milk, but the idea of fighting with him about neonate at each bottle is horrible too... Help!

Does anyone have any experience of other milks, I bet i could get to a year on just ebm and bf when I am there and increasing solids, but as I think he is soy allergic too, worried about calcium too as no yoghurts etc.

Thank you!

Ask for a referral to a dietician. DS is the same and they said not to bother trying neocate formula as he wont take it. He's also soya intolerant. I BF and work three days a week. He's now 15 months but still needs good sources of calcium.

Can you feed morning and night with one dream feed around 11pm? Then in the day give him calcium enriched oat milk (oatly in a red carton) - which doesn't contain enough nutrients to be a milk substitute, but is good enough to supplement.

For calcium, I give DS mashed up sardines with bones (bones are soft so no problem - and these contain the calcium) once a week, spinach (e.g. in mashed potatoes), ready brek in the mornings. Also some veg contains calcium, although not a huge amount but every little counts. Such as swede, parsnips and sweet potatoes.

Have you tried goats milk products? Supposed to be easier to digest. I've given DS one tea spoon of goats yoghurt and cheese and he seems to be ok with it - I need to try again to be sure.

Try a very small drop of vanilla extract in with the neocate, helped with my ds. We were then able to stop putting it in after a few months and he didnt notice.

He still doesn't take much but will drink it when I'm not there to bf and takes it at nursery and on his weetabix etc. It reassures me to know hes having the calories/ iron / calcium.

We have seen paed allergy clinic and dietician and they are totally against goats milk as the proteins are so similar. You really need a referral thats a difficult diet to manage (at least for reassurance).

Did you try pepti jr? it tastes better and some cmp allergic kids can tolerate (it and nutramigen have a small amount of treated / denatured cmp). Ds really liked it but had a reaction :(

Thanks for the advice. Will try the vanilla, who knows! When we saw the dietician I thought we would win with the neonate, so didn't ask about alternatives. I thought he might be too young for oat milk, but as you say, as a supplementary milk, might be ok with bf.

I suspect will react to all cpm as he is v sensitive...

My ds is 14 months, he has multiple allergies and he is also on Neocate - which he refuses to drink or eat in any cereal. However his dietician suggested flavouring it with Nesquick. This hasn't worked.
Ds won't drink oatmilk either so I work and still manage to bf (Don't worry it does get easier for you once your ds is a year old)
Now all of ds food has added Neocate.

I hope you find a solution.