Actually my son hated the Neocate infant, but seems to really love the Neocate Junior. Yeah, the only other option would be for my son to drink rice milk with added fat, and since he has other food allergies they thought it best to keep him on it until he's able to eat a lot more and have more nutrition. Since he is 16 months old we are trialing cow's milk this week. If all goes well I'll take him off the Neocate now. Only because he's eating a bunch more in foods, rice bread, veggies, chicken.
If my son WAS eating lots of solids at 12 months we would have put him on the rice milk and not bother with formula. However, because he had gagging issue with so many solids, plus allergic to egg, wheat, oats, barley, beef, and mspi, we thought it best to put him on the formula. He didn't even START Neocate until he was 12 months. This was all on the advice of our pediatric dietitian.