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GOATS FORMULA MILK QUESTION - HELP!!!

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MammyShirl · 20/10/2003 22:41

PLEASE HELP!
MY dd is 7 months old, I have been trying to wean her off my breasts since she was months, she got an alleric reaction to formula so i continued breast feeding and tried again with nutramagen. I have since managed to get her to drink breast milk from a bottle but i really jst want to stop breastfeeding altogether even though i enjoy it - I HATE GETTING UP TO EXPRESS! I dream of sleeping all night and ive had mastitus 3 times!!! My hv said i should try her with milk again as she thinks she may be ok with it now. i eat many dairy products and this has no effect on her. i was thinking of trying her with goats formula milk called "Nanny;s" has anyone used this with their babies - any advice or info would be much appreciated. i just feel like i will never get her off my breasts!!!!!!!!!!

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mears · 20/10/2003 23:24

Why do you have to get up to express MammyShirl? If you enjoy feeding you should be able to do that without having to get up for expressing at this age. Sorry I don't know anything about Nanny's goat's milk. What happenend with the nutramagen? Did she react to it?

Eulalia · 22/10/2003 15:57

Isn't goats milk awfully expensive? She should feed a lot less once she is taking more solids so it will get easier. Better for her to continue with your own milk if she is showing a reaction to other milks till she is a year old. Sounds a long time but it is only 5 months - not so long when you condiser allergies may affect her whole lifetime. Good luck.

Enid · 22/10/2003 16:46

I used Nanny goats milk formula for my dd2. Its fine but very expensive.

Do you give her cows milk in cooking (I presume she's weaned)?

Nuzzler · 25/10/2003 15:35

Hi, I had a similar situation and used Nanny for things like cereal when I weaned him, however after several attempts at putting him on the bottle and I gave up, continuing to breast feed. I intend to do so until he is a year old and then switch to neat goats milk which already I use for cooking. I have a good friend who has raised both her dd's on Nanny and swears by it. Both are lactose intolerant and she found it was much more easily digested. I have heard from my HV that children who are sensitive to dairy in the early months should be tried again around 8 months as they can grow out of it. Good luck

FiB · 25/10/2003 16:06

I gave my daughter Nanny from about three months because of baby eczema: it made absolutely no difference to eczema (she eventually grew out of it) and smelt foul when she brought any back. Still, it was fine otherwise - although v expensive and not easy to find.

jennifersofia · 25/10/2003 22:12

Yup, have used Nanny's and 'neat' goat's milk on my two and have found it to be no problem. I do think it is much more digestible than cow's milk (but not as digestible as breast milk). I got mine at the local health food shop (the goat formula, not the breast milk!). Do you have an electric pump? It did make me feel rather bovine, but at least it got the job done quickly and efficiently. It is difficult when you feel like you want your body back. Good luck with it all.

Evita · 25/10/2003 22:26

My daughter was also allergic to cow's milk though now at 1 year old seems to be better. I also breast fed and used Nanny which is, as your other respondants have said, expensive, but my daughter took to it really well and now won't drink ordinary formula!

mimiasovitch · 12/11/2003 16:45

Hi, hope someone can help me out, as I've gone through all the threads on this subject and am hopelessly confused. My 6 month dd is being breastfed, but on the 3 occasions she's had formula, only to mix some babyrice when I didn't want to express, she was really sick about 4 hours later. The 1st time I didn't connect it to the formula, the 2nd ime made the link and the 3rd was at the hv's advice to try a different formula. anyway, she has since been prescribed nutramigen, though no actual tests have been done to see what exactly the problem is. Does anyone think that goats milk would be suitable? The paediatrician and dietician both said no, but I get the feeling the latter doesn't know that there is a baby formula.

jmg · 12/11/2003 17:02

Mimiasovitch, my dd was only 6 weeks old when I tried to give her some formula and she had extreme and prolonged vomiting immediatly after. Next time following the HVs advice to try it again just to be sure we ended up in A&E! BTW the more you give them, just to test out whether it really is the formula (as advised by HV) the more sensitive they get to it. I only found this out after seeing a homeopath regarding her allergy - she was shocked that the HV had advised this after such a clear and severe allergic reaction. When I saw a consultant at the allergy clinic, they were also equally horrified!!

We tried goats milk formula just for mixing foods etc, and she did seems much better - no vomiting. However she was constantly ill - runny noses, every bug going etc. She then had a very severe allergic reaction to something - still don't know what it was - and we ended up with her on steriods for days and several more visits to A&E.

In the end we went to see a homeopath who immediately advised us to take her off all dairy foods, including goats milk products. She hasn't looked back since - no more colds etc than the normal child - she is now 5 Per Homeopath a child who has more than 3 or 4 colds a year or 2 or 3 tummy bugs is probably intolerant to something in their diet.

I think you are probably going to have to give the goats milk a go and see how you get on. It certainly does seem to be better tolerated. However, do watch out for any other less severe signs of intolerance/allergy.

You might also note that some of the supermarkets do a lactose free (or certainly reduced) cows milk it may be worth considering using this if you are only using for mixing and breastfeeding otherwise.

I ended up breast feeding for far far longer than I anticipated because all of the alterbatives were just not working for my DD!!

bobthebaby · 12/11/2003 19:19

jmg, there is lactose in breastmilk so a lactose intolerence would have shown up much earlier. Cow and Goat milk proteins are similar so Goats milk formula may not be any better.

My ds cannot tolerate cows milk protein, so I just make his baby rice with water (also can't be bothered expressing) and add some pureed fruit.

popsycal · 12/11/2003 19:27

my ds couldnt tolerate formula milk so tried allsorts.....breastfeeding worked best
also tried soya formula which he was great with....but have a strange balance of sugars...
gradually got him off soyaa onto normal formula
boots also do a sma formula for sensitive babies..tho only seen it at bigger stores...
it has taken me 4 months to get ds (now 16mths) onto cows milk from formula.
couldnt tolerate it straight away but gradually introduced it.
been totally on it now for a week - fingers crossed
i think it is just a matter of taking it slowly for those with sensitives tums sometimes!

mimiasovitch · 15/11/2003 15:01

Thanks, I think I'll try the goats milk. Mind you, she seems fine with butter on toast, though she just sucks it until soggy, and also with the single choc button I tried! I guess its a question of quantity.

Julia11841 · 18/06/2010 20:58

We've switched from normal formula to Nanny after finding out, through testing, that our 7 month old dd is intolerant to cow's milk protein. She's had terrible eczema and tummy trouble since she was about 2 months old. It has worked a treat and I've since met several other mothers who have had the same experience.

moaningminniewhingesagain · 18/06/2010 21:05

This is a very old thread

Goats milk formula not recommended for children under 1. An alternative hypoallergenic formula is now usually prescribed, and free on prescription.

Info here from the Food Safety Agency

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