Does CMPA run in the family?

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Does cmpa tend to run in the family, like ds1 has cmpa and suspected lactose intolerance (eczema and stomach symptoms never went away until we got a cmpa milk without lactose) and I’m expecting ds2. I’m an only child so I’ve no practical experience, I can’t tolerate lactose well personally and neither can 3 other family members but were dotted about not mother child brother.

I’d wondered if I should bf from the start, I tried with ds but he wouldn’t take to it, possibly causing him stomach pain with any dairy from me? And a poor latch combined with no info on nipple shields (by the time I tried one I didn’t have enough milk for him and he preferred the fast bottle to actually working for his lunch).

How long would I need to be dairy free before birth? Anything else I should avoid (soy is a given). Or should I just eat as normal and see how this one is? Midwifes just shrugged when I asked and we don’t see dietician until after number twos here (1 year after diagnosis of multiple food allergies)

I’m also having growth scans this time as ds was born near the 5th centile (and has sprouted to the 50th in the first 4 months) so I’m unsure if I’ll get to go to term/natural birth.

I am planning on breastfeeding this one, and the dietician told me not to exclude anything from my diet unless baby shows symptoms. She said because I've had a child with it, this child is more likely to have it but there's still a good chance they won't. Because we've been through it once, we're more likely to be able to spot even subtle allergy signs quicker so the plan is to eliminate dairy and soy if baby starts to show symptoms and get a referral back to the allergy clinic.

I’m assuming that’s what our appointments for, we haven’t physically met the dietician yet only had his prescription changed over the phone once I’d trialed colief myself to help with lactose. Before that it was just the gp prescribing milk.
Do you know how long it takes for dairy to leave your system? One place said 2weeks another said 6.
Our subtle symptoms were constipation n reflux, he was 4 months before he broke out completely with eczema and started to have “colic” but it also took him that long to get onto his centile and taking a decent amount of milk.

Yes, it does run in families. Your baby is less likely to develop cmpa if you can minimise the need for things like antibiotics in the neonatal period, or early introduction of formula (top ups etc). I think I probably agree with the advice of not removing things from your diet prophylactically but would have a low threshold for going dairy free. It takes anything up to 3 weeks for milk proteins to leave your milk AND baby’s system. Both of mine had mild to moderate cmpa but the one who had antibiotics and top ups in nicu was very much worse.

Fortunately we had no antibiotics.. I can’t have a lot of them so I avoid them unless absolutely essential.. and neither has he so far. For all he was small/induced a smidge early he avoided any extra care.

I also don’t take in much dairy.. shouldn’t take in any but until they make chocolate taste decent without it I’ll suffer. It’d be cutting out two cups of tea and chocolate, which probably wouldn’t do me any harm either.

He did get formula around 12hours after birth, had morphine in early, but fast, labour which seemed to make him too sleepy to feed and midwifes couldn’t get him to feed from me.. or stay awake long enough to. Right enough the whole ward wasn’t very bf’ing friendly, never shown how to latch etc just here’s the baby good luck! You’ll be home tomorrow

My DD has cmpa and her consultant said to expect DS to have it too. I cut out dairy when he was born and trialled it a few times - he's only 10 weeks and I'm not totally sure so just keeping dairy low level for now.

Cmpa is different to lactose intolerance though so it would be worth becoming familiar with the two so you understand the condition a little more. Lactose intolerance is very very rare because breastmilk has lactose in it. Cmpa is an allergy to the protein, not the sugar (lactose)