Weaning CMPA baby

[Needsleeeeepsendheeeelp]

Hi! Will be starting to wean baby in a couple of weeks. She is currently on Neocate prescription milk for CMPA. Her symptoms were relatively on the mild side - mainly just pain/discomfort when feeding. No sickness, physical reaction etc (although does now have excema on and off). I've spoken to my HV about how to wean with CMPA, and was told to ring the gp. Rang gp, and they said to ring the HV 😏 I've asked for a referral to a dietician but they said there were no paediatric dietician that they could refer us to. Feeling very let down, I've researched as much as I can but obviously would prefer specific guidance so as not to cause any harm/discomfort to baby.

Does anyone have any experience in this field, or can anyone suggest a site or route through to access a dietician when the main routes are being so unhelpful? Thanks.

Hi @Needsleeeeepsendheeeelp
I've no experience to offer as my DD cmpa is looking like it could have been reflux. Anyway when it was possibly cmpa I followed an account on Instagram to give me some possible dairy free meal ideas when I needed them. The account is TheDairyFreeMum and it may give you some help?
Hope someone is along soon to offer more help than I can give

Hey, I've been weaning my baby who has cmpa for past 6 months now. It does feel daunting doesn't it! Dietician said to start off with 1 food at a time for 3 days to see if any reaction, then introduce another one for 3 days and so on. It is a slow process but I'm glad we done it that way as it allowed us to discover his egg and mustard allergy.

Ds I did one new food at a time starting with veg with dd I was a bit more slap dash but avoided soya until a year. I believe cmpa can often also have soya sensitivity. Ds is definitely sensitive to too much soya (ie he can have soya yogurt and milk in the same day)

We use
vitalite spread instead of butter,
oat milk instead of cows (took dd the best part of 10 months to except oat milk to formula, ds took a week of gradually swapping an oz)
Coconut yogurts

Top tip read the ingredients on everything as milk powder is in lots of things. Stock cubes, gravy powders, sausages for example have surprised me before.

Free from products are low calorie, my dietician recommended 3 meals and 2 desserts from 7 months.

Oatly Greek yoghurt is great. Birds custard powder. Make your own rice pudding.

Add fake cheese where you can (Asda own grated cheese is good). Add flora or similar wherever you can. Salmon and sardines come with soft bones in tins, full of calcium.

Also ready break, it says not suitable for milk allergy sufferers but my dietician said it's fine, and it's loaded with calcium and iron.

Thanks everyone, really helpful tips! It does feel daunting, but we'll get there. As it happens, the HV has now said they will refer us to a dietician themselves - why they couldn't do this beforehand I don't know, but at least we know we have the professional support we need coming now.

My son (4) has CMPA and hasn't grown out of it.

Honestly the only thing different is not to offer milk until a year old when you can start the milk ladder.

You can use her formula in place of regular milk or alpro soya growing up milk is good too.

We used coconut yoghurt with my son and he loved it mixed with fruit purée.

Ella's kitchen and Sainsbury's do loads of dairy free pouches

Read ingredient lists as lots of kid food does have milk in it

Don't bother with vegan cheese

Flora is the best dairy free butter.

Our whole family eats dairy free because of DS and honestly it's fine.

I've got CMPA and I'm the cook so my family are pretty much DF most of the time.

Try not to worry too much, you'll get used to reading labels pretty quickly at at least these days everything is labelled, when I was a kid you just had to try and work out what food was hurting you and then stop eating it.

Think it's about half of all people with CMPA also have an allergy to Soya. I can have a little soya but it's really not good for me.