Eliminating dairy and soya from my diet for ebf baby

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Is anyone able to offer any tips? I am vegetarian but considering eating meat again temporarily as I am already underweight. I am not keen but think it may be helpful; any thoughts?

I cut out all dairy previously so know about that, but replaced it with soya (milk, spread, puddings, yougurts etc). I am just concerned about my health - getting enough calories and staying healthy.

Sorry to keep starting threads on this topic, I am new to the whole allergy field

Follow your instincts. If you feel you need to eat meat, then perhaps you do.

I was vegetarian for about 15 years, but DS is allergic to dairy, eggs, nuts and pulses. Without meat, I don't know how he and I would get any protein!

And I can always console myself with bacon sandwiches

If I buy small amounts of free range, organic meat I think I could live with it. Will be weird though.

I still gag when I cook meat sometimes... but yes, bacon sandwiches are good!!!

Same here, was veggie from age 11 but feeding ds (cmp & egg & fish allergy) would be hard enough without excluding meat as well. I still try to do veggie meals during week but usually resort to chicken, sausages or beef mince.

I did the ebf & exclusion too, a couple of months of cutting out dairy,egg, soy, nuts and wheat was a major crash diet, not at all sustainable combined with the bf. For milk you could try Oatly or rice milk plus kara (coconut) to make puddings. For marge you should be ok as there is Pure sunflower - it tastes much nicer than the soya anyway. Yoghurt I don't know how you subsitute without soya. Birds custard powder is OK though I think, so could make up with another milk. The nut milks are tasty too.
You can make cakes still - especially if you have eggs in your diet still.

Also are you sure baby reacts through your milk? I wasn't sure in the end that it made much difference even though ds was definitely very allergic to milk and eggs in his own food. I know babies often do react through milk but might be worth trying to check if you're not sure, just in case it doesn't make a difference. (subject to what the docs say of course...).

Look after yourself!

Hi, sorry just come back to this. I am 2 or 3 weeks in now and its not fun! Yes, I am sure he reacts to milk and soy in my milk as that is all he had had when diagnosed. He is now 6.5 months and doing better though still not sleeping (bad habits as much as anything now though). He seems much happier.

I am not sure I can keep it up for months though. I haven't got on with eating meat and am starving all the time. And fed up and missing cheese so much! Seems such a shame to put him on formula though as DS1 never had a bottle and I dont even know where to start with all that malarkey!