I haven't been on this thread before. J is my 2nd MPSI baby so I knew what I was doing with him this time around and didn't really feel the need to be here - it has been second nature to me this time!
But he's just turned 1 and I have just started a dairy trial. And I need to write it down and be around others who know what I'm talking about!
With J I cut out dairy from my diet at 3 weeks old when bf him because we had the first signs of reflux and difficult feeding and he had no traces of milk from then on. At 7 months we moved to Neocate.
So yesterday I gave him cow's milk in a sippy cup. He drank about 30ml maybe a little more and then refused to drink anymore. He usually drinks from a bottle so I wasn't sure which he was complaining about (or both!). Today I put it in a bottle and he drank 70ml. Both mornings he's just been so fussy. Cries and whines and follows me around and is just generally unhappy. His tummy is also hard (a problem we have with other foods including gluten and fruit - but I'm otherwise only feeding him things he has no problems with). His poo has changes to be much looser. Not quite diarrhoea though.
I think I need to press on for another day to be sure. I tend to quit when things start heading bad but then I never have a definitive answer. Teeth don't seem to be an issue right now (he just got tooth #4 last week).
I wanted to go the milk route first because the last time he had any traces of dairy was so long ago. If he COULD tolerate milk it would skip the in between steps. Plus with DD we took the slow route and it did my head in. But if he does fail milk I will go back and try cooked in dairy and cheese etc in separate trials.
We will have to switch from Neocate at some point. I think I'd rather not go to Neocate Advance if I can avoid it. I don't want to do soy and I have a feeling (based on the other things he doesn't tolerate) that coconut milk will be out otherwise I would have tended towards rice milk with added coconut milk for fat. I haven't investigated the nutritional benefits of oat and hemp milk yet though I read someone around here saying hemp milk was fab nutritionally. I don't even know if we can get that here. So maybe we will have to go to Neocate Advance
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