CMPI 6 month old weaning advice and soy question

[ScarletBegonia1234]

Hi all...a bit of advice please! I have just started weaning and thought I would have a few weeks of ds chucking veg around before I had to actually think about this properly. Instead he has demolished everything we have put in front of him!

He is dairy free due to cmpi and I am wondering how best to ensure he is getting enough fats in his diet (he is still bf). Also any recipe ideas? We are mixing blw and spoonfeeding....anything goes!

Secondly I was wondering if you could give me a show of hands...if your dc was dairy intolerant did they also react to soy?I know the proteins are similar but the dietitian said I should just give ds a cup of soy milk and see what happens! This seems a bit reckless to me as he gets poorly from small amounts of cows milk that I eat so I am worried about what kind of reaction he could have. Does anyone have any similar experience?

Thanks in advance!

DS1 was CMPI, he was fine on soya milk but I didn't start it til he was 1 just on cereal as was still BFing him until age 2 (me on a boring dairy free diet)as he never took to the yuk taste of neocate. I was encouraged by the paediatrician to add olive oil to things to provide a bit of fat, I recall.
For interest, DS1 is now 4 and can tolerate cheese in small amounts, yoghurts, things with cooked milk in, but will still get a bad tummy from cows milk so has soya on his cereal even now. We do a dairy challenge on him every few months though and it's slowly improving.

That's good that he's improved so much! I am happy bf (even though I miss cheese soooooo much) but I go back to work when he is 8 months and am wondering what I will be able to give him in the day as expressing doesn't really work well for me! Soy formula is the most likely to be tolerated as long as he isn't allergic as apparently the other ones like neocate taste vile!!!

Yes DS1 refused point blank to take Neocate, to my despair! What about Cow & Gate Pepti Junior? Soy formulas really aren't recommended for the under-2's - which is why I BF so long. I do understand the work issue, but I used to feed morning and when I got home from work, then bedtime, and it worked well enough. I wasn't a big expresser either but would get enough to make up some cereal a few times a week...

Worth having a look at this if you've not already seen it:

www.nhs.uk/ipgmedia/National/British%20Dietetic%20Association/assets/MilksforChildrenwithaCowsMilkAllergy.pdf

PS I used Alpro junior on DS1s cereal from age 1, once a day

Try cooking with oatly cream substitute.

Had to go back to EBF at 8 months, having combi fed and tried to completely wean at 6 months. He wouldn't take the hydrolised formulas. At a year we switched to oat milk which I added the oatly cream to so the fat content was equal to milk. He seems to react to soya, but there are suggestions that it's not good for boys anyway. Supplemented his calcium with Osteocare liquid supp which has other good minerals to aid absorption. (GP prescribed calcium was horrible and contained colour linked to hyperactivity.)

He was ok with cooked cheese, plain butter was ok too all the time. He was back on dairy fully by about June this year, so at around 3. Took about 3 or 4 months to reintroduce.

Now he's just a total fusspot! Good luck!

Thanks so much everyone that's really helpful!