Please help - I'm in a total mess

[Heliwebb]

Hi all - this is my first time posting here. I'm really hoping someone can help me. I'm in a total mess. My daughter is 9 months. She is dairy and egg intollerant and has reflux. From 8 weeks old, I have expressed all her milk for her because my letdown was so fast it choked her and she used to vomit entire milk feeds. She is also on Gaviscon and I found it didn't work unless it was mixed with the actual milk. I now desperately want to stop expressing because I am SO tired of it and my milk has almost completely dried up. I don't know what to give her instead. I don't want to give her soya because there is so much evidence now that soya is bad for you. I obviously can't give her cows milk. She won't drink formula no matter what. The ideal scenario would be if I could get her to breastfeed because this would stimulate my milk supply again but she won't. What should I do? I'm so confused! My HV is completely and utterly useless. Any advice at all would be brilliant.

I tried goats milk and she was violently sick. The gp still refuses to prescribe neocate (too expensive I imagine) - he says that she doesn't need milk at this stage (9 months). I've started expressing 5 times a day instead of 3 to get my supply up and again and it is working - I just hope I don't have to keep doing it this many times to maintain the supply. After a couple of weeks, I am hoping to be able to cut back to 4 or even 3 times again. Sorry, how dull. We are going to see a dietician in a month or so. If they decide that her diet is lacking in calcium then we will get prescibed a liquid calcium supplement. I've resigned myself to expressing until she's one or so and then I am definitely stopping altogether. Only 3 months to go !!!