Milk Ladder Experiences

[HurlyBurlyyy]

Hi,

My DD (15 months) is on the first step of the milk ladder. She was diagnosed with CMPA as an infant after struggling with consistently terrible nappies and corresponding awful nappy rash. She’s just over a week in and her nappies are ok but she’s been waking overnight with bad wind.

I’m just wondering if others had this experience and if they kept going/did it go away?? She’s pretty happy most of the time so I don’t really want to stop as I want her to be able to have dairy.

Just went to post similar thread and came across this! No advice, sorry, but we are on day 7 of stage 1 of the milk ladder and she's started waking very early and upset, I'm wondering if she's getting some stomach pain.

Hoping someone comes along with experience!

Following.... cmpa here too. I was told I could send an email when I had questions but they're not repkying. I'm at 3 but she reacts to some things and not others. Wondering what to do now.

Hello all, my 11 year old has CMPA and we have been trying the ladder for years. He can’t get past step 1 still, he has stomach aches and wind and even diarrhea. The allergy specialist told us that any discomfort/ stomach aches mean you should give up and not keep trying. No need to put little ones through any of that.

Yep stop and try again in a few months. It took till DS was 8 to get to the top of the ladder and I think he was 5 before he could tolerate stage 1.

I agree my dd finally landed at the top at age 11. Don't push it, I just tried yearly. What's happened is her allergy has stayed same in test results but she's got bigger (obvs!) so can now tolerate dairy. She generally chooses not to eat it but can have cakes and ice cream as a treat out and about now

Thanks everyone that's really helpful for me aswell as the OP! I find it really tricky as she's only 18 mo and can't tell me how she feels, plus the nappy rash, eczema flare up, early wakings could be due to other things so hard to tell what it is! I'm going to stop it for a few days and see if it improves though

Thanks everyone, @theworldhasgoneinsane interesting you mention early wakings as we’ve had the same!

@HurlyBurlyyy is your child under a dietician? Mine is but they're so behind with appointments she hasn't been seen since September. Feel like these are the kind of questions I need to ask but with infrequent reviews it's difficult

We had a 4am start yesterday, not nice!

@theworldhasgoneinsane Yes she is, I actually emailed to ask about the wind/wakings but they weren’t very specific. Just said this is one of the reasons the milk ladder is hard, because it’s hard to know what’s a reaction and what isn’t!