When to try formula - CMPA?

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I'm currently breast feeding my 4 week old daughter, but know that eventually I want to move onto formula. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts of when best to try introducing it as my son suffered with CMPA as a baby so I'm aware that DD may also have this.

Do you think it is better to get the allergy (if there is one) recognised early so any relevant referrals can be made? (For what it's worth, DS (now 3) allergy was not too serious - mainly skin reactions, he still suffers a bit with eczema but has completed the milk ladder apart from drinking cows milk which upsets his stomach.

Any thoughts or ideas much appreciated!

I've got CMPA. If you want to introduce formula and you know it's a risk, could you try it in the morning when you know that the Doctors are open, just in case her reaction is ige?

My son has CMPA and as a result I was terrified of introducing formula to my daughter. I just couldn't bare going through all that again.

She was already a different baby and fed and slept way better than him. One day I just went for it and tried her, she refused the bottle but had no reaction to the formula she did take.

She never took a bottle, but tbh I enjoyed feeding her so didn't push it too hard.

At weaning stage we tried with cows milk and other dairy and she had no reactions to it. Huge sigh of relief from me.

Echo pp though and introduce it at a time you can sort a doctors app.

Thanks both - good advice to try in the morning so I can get to the doctor if needed. @Twizbe I'm exactly the same, terrified that she'll be the same and I'll make her feel rubbish by trying it, but I know that she may well be fine with it as well!

I would go with Thursday or Friday morning so you have chance to get seen by someone if there is a reaction and so you have the weekend for extra family support if there are issues.

If you suspect you will want to move to formula and potentially hypoallergenic formula I would do it early before they realise how awful the hypoallergenic formula tastes! We are trying since around 7 months to get her on formula with limited success!

My friend is on her second cmpa baby and with her second it took 2 weeks on regular formula for it too be clear that the second was also cmpa so keep an eye on symptoms that might build up with increased exposures.