Coconut milk suitable for 6mo?

[ToonLass]

Hello, I'm almost ready to start weaning my 24wo DD.

She has a suspected dairy/cmp intolerance and so I have cut that out of my diet.

Weetabix for breakfast seems a popular choice, and so I'm wondering if I could use coconut milk instead of cows milk to make it mushy? It obviously wouldn't be much.

Thanks

It is recommended as long as you're not allergic to it, as it has the highest protein level. But Oatly tastes nicer on your cereal :o
shame it sinks to the bottom of your tea though

DD had CMPA and we were referred to a dietician when she was about 10 months as she was failing to thrive. She told us off for using coconut or rice or oat milk as they did not have enough calories and fat and too much salt. I felt pretty bad about it. I had no idea it might be wrong. She was bf alongside but we used these in cooking.

I also could never express (despite successfully bf for 18 months). We were advised to use non-dairy formula instead. DD completely refused to have the special prescribed one and we used a soya formula instead. I did worry a bit about this as apparently soy allergies are quite common too but she was fine with it and she did start to put on weight again.

DS was in the % that reacted to soya too unfortunately. Definitely don't use rice milk either. Too much arsenic in it for small children!

It's koko milk I use for myself just now, and would be what I used for DD. it's fortified with calcium and vit D apparently! Thought it would be ok to use in cereal/porridge etc but maybe I need to do more research

Thanks mama, will definitely keep that in mind.

Just doing (another) dairy free trial just now and if it apparent that dairy is a problem I will ask to be referred to dietician so I know DD gets the best nutrition I can offer.

Really though you should be seeing a dietician and allergy clinic. Ours was happy for us to use Oatly and soya as DS weight is fine and tolerating soya well. Other people may get different advice depending on circumstances.

All the alternatives are low fat/calorie. which is why they aren't recommended as a sole drink under age 1. but that doesn't mean you can't use them in cooking. especially as at 6 months they just taste it's not about meals really so provided they are still given formula or bm as their main source of nutrition what milk the two spoons of porridge was made up with seems hardly important. There's always coconut or oatly cream or soya cream to add to them fir extra calories.

I used koko coconut milk for ds. He wouldn't ever drink it but to mush down weetabix or on other cereal. porridge was less successful as it made a huge messy gloop. Once he was one i switched to the alpro Junior milk fit cereal and he liked this more and would to the bowl up and drink it at the end. I continued to bf alongside.

We did the milk ladder unforgiving dairy and at 18 months he now has cows milk fine and i have stopped bfing.

I didn't see a dietician which in hindsight might have been helpful.

We used all the plant milks but soya with dd for porridge with success. If you want more calories add a good blob of oatly cream (£1 ish all supermarkets on free from shelf) or melt some coconut oil in.
Check out coyo yoghurt. It is pricey but amazing.
You can do great overnight oats with this that you could both eat.
Ready brek is fine milk wise btw but it has a gluten warning.
Ready brek can also be made up with any liquid and doesn't have to be hot. Sometimes I'd add some to a fruit puree when out and about for a bit of extra 'stodge' but my baby was super hungry!

Re Weetabix, I wouldn't worry about the salt content. I checked our box this morning and it said there was 0.24g of salt in a portion of two bisks. Bearing in mind how much a baby would eat,that's well within safe guidelines.

My baby has CMPA. He's akso soya intolerant. Dieticians recommended oat milk and it's great but as others have said not as a substitute for breast milk, just for the occasions when you would use cows milk iyswim.