7 month old cmpi baby - underweight not interested in food or milk

[Kdam]

Hi mums, hoping to get some advice. My son is cow milk protein intolerant. He is 7 mo 2 weeks old and is on neocate.i give him fruit and baby rice for breakfast, a snack in the aftermoon and for dinner he has lentils, spinach with vegetables etc. He doesnt eat more than a couple of tablespoons, he has no interest in food. I tried smooth purees, chunkier ones and also finger food. Nothing more than a couple of mouthfulls. He is on the 0.4 percentile and is a very small baby, the dietician asked me to give him high calorie puddings et to help gain weightl. I tried soy yogury and hes terribly constipated ceying in pain. I will stip2the soy now..anyone has any suggestionsom high calorie puddings i can make or even better buy for a cmpa baby

Do you offer him constant snack in the hope to have him eat? ? say a bite of banana here, couple of sip of juice, a cracker? It might turn against you, because then your son loses the sense of appetite and will not eat as well.
Make sure he doesn't; have anything to eat, even a bite an hour at least before meals, then offer some pasta (the pasta soup shape are perfect for that age) with broth or a liquid sauce , a risotto cooked in a thick vegetables broth.
I have lived in many countries and it is funny as everyone is so different when it comes to feeding infants.
I quite like the French system in which they offer soups in baby bottles with a bigger teat.
Another nice idea is trying polenta. Either warm or let it cool then cut into free shape and bake in the oven.
You can also bake chickpea muffin with vegetables. If you google vegan recipes for babies , you will find of ideas. I know you are not vegan, but I guess you haven't introduced eggs and meat yet,, so it is your better call.

You can find some pudding ideas here.
homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/baby-food-recipe-competition-share-your-ideas-and-win-a-prize/baby-dessert-recipes-from-other-mommies/#babychocolatepudding

It is not rare for milk intolerant to be also soy intolerant , so it is wise to avoid it for now. You can prepare some porridge in the morning with his formula milk.

My youngest stayed symetrically well under the 0.4th for years. Tiny babies have tiny stomachs so small and frequent meals and snacks can really help. It could be a couple fo mouthfuls is leaving him feeling full if his stomach is very small. At 7 months I was still having to offer Elly food in some form or other every two hours...including at night. [It was that or consider an overnight NG feed.]
When she was very small her pead' dietician provided her with Maxi-jul fortifier to add to her home made high calory meals/food. There are other fortifiers you can add to foods. This is prescription only and may still need to be prescribed by a hospital.
I used to add the fortifier to make her rice puddings, porridge with mashed banana, custards, mashed potato and so on. I even made my own bread and would make her tiny finger rolls with the maxi-jul kneaded into her rolls. I did not use custard powder to make her custards. I used egg yokes as they had the higher calories and baked them in a bain marie in the oven. You can swap and use your babies formula for ordinary milk in most recipes. I have to admit not everything will work as some specialised formula tend to behave oddly when cooked.
Ready made milk free 'puddings' have additives that can be a bit too much for a really tiny baby's tiny stomach to cope with. Likewise some of the milk free products suitable for older children under the 0.4th are not suitable for children under 2. My son with a severe milk allergy could not cope with the plainest of ready made vegan style desserts due to the sweetners and thickners till he was 2. You may have to bite the bullet and make your own.

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First, if he’s eating 2 tablespoons at a meal, that’s really good. How much formula is he having each day?

If you want him to eat more, have you tried giving him finger foods and purses at the same meal? So you could try feeding him Banana-Cado for breakfast and giving him a porridge finger to chew on at the same time. Oatly do a single cream that you could add to either one of those to up the calories?

I’d definitely ditch the baby rice though, it has very little nutritional value as there are so many more interesting things for him to try

*purees

What kind of snack is he having in the afternoon OP? Unless it’s high calorie, you may be better giving him formula instead.

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Has the Dietician suggested adding olive oil to his savoury food? This is a great way to add calories. Oatly cream can be added to things like mashed fruit or veg too.

As for puddings, I think you are right to stop soy. It sounds as if he’s in the 50% of people with a CMPA that are also allergic to the protein in soy.

Banana-Cado can be served as a pud. Try making rice pudding with coconut milk and adding Oatly cream, I make mine in the slow cooker and you can freeze it. A banana, you can freeze them in this weather and serve as a lolly.

How about Banana Bread or Berry Pie. Jus rol pastry is DF too so it’s fairly easy to make jam tarts with, even for me

Jelly and ice cream is usually a favourite at this age. There are a few sorbets and vegan ice creams on the market now, you’ll need to check they are SF though. There are sone recipes here for ice lollies though you may want to replace the water with more coconut milk.

Try these yoghurts as well.