Look at all these dairy free babies! Incidentally, my cmpi baby is sometimes great, waking once a night. However, as its taken til 11 months to recognize and treat DT1's reflux, despite having a reflux cmpi twin too, we are about to re-try dairy free for my nightmare sleeper. He's more terrible than ever, plus 5:30 is now the morning, every morning. It wouldn't be so bad if he'd sleep until then, but it just adds insult to injury. Boys are both coughing loads, and as its been so rubbish recently I've consoled myself with lots of chocolate, so DT2- the definite cmpi one- has been up loads screaming. Bad mummy. I always think, oh, he's nearly one, a couple of bars of chocolate for me should make no difference, and he does have this cough which is also disturbing him, but its distress with back arching. So of course, I feel very guilty and stupid now. I am of course, both guilty and stupid for scoffibg shed loads of milk chocolate in the first place but my willpower runs out sometimes. Call it an alternative dairy challenge :) . He'll be ok within 48 hours though was last time I did this . So Lucy IME, which is very limited, once DT2 is comfy again he sleeps better pretty much immediately. We are on 3-4 long difficult wakes atm, once he feels better he will go back to one, occasionally sleeping through. If I'm right, and he really is cmpi. He seems to be, but isn't classic. His symptoms are just misery, solid poos he strains to pass and terrible sleeping, waking with bad wind and seemingly uncomfortable. No watery diarrhoea, mild excema but that hasn't gone without dairy, nothing else, always had good weight gain. Yet every time we give dairy and move up the dairy challenge a bit he becomes unsettled etc. We did get to 60g yoghurt last time before this happened though, and he can tolerate eg butter on toast at playgroup if its not all the time. So we think it could be teeth, developmental, ya do ya di yada, re stop the dairy, 48 hours and he perks up. Sorry for the essay but i don't want to mislead :)
So what does everyone feed their cows milk intolerant babies? Mine eats Ella's kitchen, almost exclusively as he's refusing all home cooked fare and has gone super fussy. Just to help matters. He can have soya though.
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I'm going to post this as DT1 waking, of course, and its too long and boring as it is. I really should accept I'm not witty enough for mn....
Oh, but i just have to say DT1 did his first wobbly steps today, ahhh. :) DT2 getting left behind, he remains a little pudding sat on his bottom 