CMPA - weaning, feeding and bloody milk ladder - advice and experiences please!

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I'm finding it a bit of a nightmare feeding dc (18mo). Relying on bottles still.

Going back to dietician soon, and she wants to start the milk ladder. I'm not convinced.
Blood test showed no allergy anymore but I'm still terrified (allergy interfered with breathing when dc was born)

Atm dc basically eats meat, fruit, veg and biscuits. It gets quite reparative.

Please share favourite recipes and experience of milk ladder.

DD is 2 and fully weaned by blw but is now becoming fussy. She had her last bottle at 13 months when she nolonger needs milk on a nighttime.

I always had concerns about DD poo and reflux (medicated) but I was repeatedly told it was normal. At 9 months she had sickness and diarrhoea. The diarrhoea did not stop and have her awful nappy rash and we went lactose free at 12 months the dietian made her completely dairy free. We had tried step one of the milk ladder and she always get diarrhoea, but each time it has been less but enough to stop and try again in 6 weeks.

Hi, popping over from your bottle thread

I have a 14 month old who has CMPA as well as egg and peanut allergies, it is a total pain in the ass! Oh and she is still on her bottles of Aptimal Pepti. I don't see them stopping for a while yet.

Despite the allergies, she is a pretty good water, but she does have a lot of repetition.

Breakfast is porridge made with her formula, with blueberries and raspberries added and mixed up before cooking.

Lunch tends to be where I struggle most, on child minder days it's an Ella's Kitchen toddler pot, the spaghetti Bolognese and chicken curry ones are both diary free and popular. She'll have half of one for lunch.

Dinners tend to be either beef stew and mash, shepherds pie that I've made with diary free alternatives, salmon with sweet potato and veggies, or pasta with a broccoli and tomato sauce.

Snack wise it may be toast with hummus, organic crispies or rice cakes, along with fruit (depending on what she is, or isn't, enjoying at the time).

We also bulk buy these as they are her favourite things in the world...
heavenlytasty.com/en/products/coconut-squishies/

She's only allowed one a day as I'm not convinced they are that healthy, but she is such a tiny thing that I'm happy to let it go.

We are meant to be doing the ladder at the moment, but I'm finding it very hard to motivate myself as I hate the idea of causing a reaction. Ours are pretty mild, hives more of less straight away, scratching and eczema. Luckily breathing doesn't seem to be impacted.

We have worked out that pancakes are ok in small doses, same with toddler sachets with milk on the ingredients list. It causes red flushes but not the hives.

Egg pasta seemed ok, but I think more sauce was sucked off than pasta eaten!

I need to step it up and try things like custard, but I know that will cause a reaction.

Apologies for the very long and rambling post!!

Don't apologise! It's very useful! Must try the squashies

Dc loves coconut chips (urban fruit)

It's sooo repetitive - rest of family bored with casserole type meals and it's gonna be too hot to have oven on for two hours a day soon!

Dc also eats a lot of rice

Been too scared to try hummus for some reason - I'm also terrified of peas (no idea why)

Wheat pasta was a bit dodgy - so we've been using rice pasta, but must try normal pasta again

Have you seen the baby rice sachets from Tilda?

I picked up a couple from Morrisons and they are really handy.

We eat a lot of spicy foods, so still doing separate dinners for the adults. Batch cooking is the saviour, as it means I can just grab dinner from the freeze. The stews freeze really well, same with mash made up with the diary alternatives.

I have a coeliac husband and cmpa dd. Some of our favourite meals:

Chilli and rice
Curry and rice
Pasta and free from pesto
Pasta and sauce
Jacket pots and chilli / tuna / beans
Beans on toast
Big salads
Risottos

I have a coeliac husband and cmpa dd. Some of our favourite meals:

Chilli and rice
Curry and rice
Pasta and free from pesto
Pasta and sauce
Jacket pots and chilli / tuna / beans
Beans on toast
Big salads
Risottos

My DS is 14 months and allergic to cow’s milk, eggs and soya. We started the milk ladder about 6 weeks ago and so far it’s going well. I’ve been relying on the old (12 rung) ladder more than the 2017 version as it has more variety, and more suggestions of shop bought things. I started on rung one of the new ladder using the recipes but DS didn’t like them so I switched to using shop bought stuff. We are now at end of rung 4 of the old ladder, and about to try rung 3 on the new one. I hope this all makes sense!
So far everything seems fine and it’s nice to be able to introduce new foods. The dietician said to spend quite a while (at least 1-2 weeks) on each rung. Going slowly on the low rungs allows the body to build up some immunity as the amount of milk is small, and it’s well cooked.
I hate cooking so I’m probably not brilliant at giving meal ideas but the non-milk stuff we do is:
Porridge and fruit for breakfast - made with oat milk.
Lunch and dinner:
Avocado on toast
Hummus on toast
Roast veggies with hummus
Jacket potato with beans, tuna mayo etc (free from mayo from Tesco is great)
Beans/spaghetti on toast
Vegan cheese on toast
Spag bol
Fillet of Fish (cod, salmon etc) with veggies and potato
Cottage pie
Cous cous and veg
Veg Risotto
Roast dinner
Dhal
Loads of different veggie curries and rice
lots of steamed veg fingers

I don’t eat much meat so I cook a lot of veggie stuff then panic about how to add meat! DS loves oven baked fish so he’s having lots of this now.

We are using oat milk in porridge and mixing it in with the prescription formula so that we can gradually wean him off it (the prescription has now been stopped). This seems to be working well. The dietician says that oat milk is more nutritious than others (eg almond milk) and Oatly Barista is nice - DH drinks this now, even in coffee.
If I think of anything else, I’ll post more later.

Thank you!

@Dontbuymesocks the mixing the oatmilk into formula is a great idea.

As we aren't in the UK we've had to pay for the Pepti and I'm ready to make the switch. More from a convenience perspective, as the powder is a pain in the ass!

MrPotato - I introduced it 1oz at a time as my DS seems to have very delicate bowels! When I first gave him soya and then oat milk, it gave him terrible diarrhoea so I went back to the beginning and just mixed in a tiny amount, and added a little more each week. Introducing it gradually has really worked well for us and he doesn’t seem to notice the difference - and his bowels are back to normal

Not got a little one with CMPA but I have it so I thought I could share some stuff I eat

Breakfast, I usually have muesli with almond milk but we sometimes have Blueberry Pancakes made with Almond Milk. Jus-rol croissants and pain au chocolat are both DF but seem a bit heavy on the salt, so maybe an occasional treat. Sausage and beans make a good DF breakfast, just cut the sausage lengthways to reduce the choking risk. Smooth nut butter on toast is lovely too.

If you are worried about hummus, I’d try it on.a Monday morning when the Doctors is open, just for peace of mind.

For lunch try him with sardines on toast, bits of things you have in, DF pesto pasta, eggy bread or just sandwiches with raw fruit or veg or soup with chunky bread.

Last night we had Hairy Dieters Chilli Salad bowls and for Tea tonight we’ve had chicken fajitas. You could cool down the heat on both with some mayo, lidl’s Is DF or some Oatley cream.

Tomorrow is Jamblaya, another DF favourite. Would he eat pizza made with a fake cheese?

This fish pie is DF too as long as you swap the quark for sone Vitalite