Taking baby off formula 2 months early

We got Neocate spoon when I couldn’t breastfeed for a few weeks due to a nipple injury. My baby had dairy allergy and wouldn’t take the allergy formula. Neocate spoon is a feedable formula that can be mixed with purée or yogurt and spoon fed. It’s meant for babies over 6 months and temporary. It’s expensive but tbh gps just don’t always know what’s available. I agree with the dr tho there is little chance baby will drink an allergy formula at this age tbh and. Could result in a feeding aversion. A dietician gave us some samples to get us through, think you can buy it tho. Has baby got dairy in his diet through food. It sounds like these symptoms won’t magically go away if you stop his formula, I’d be asking for an allergy appointment and dietician referral.

We've been advised under our dietician that now at 10 months we can start using oat milk with added calcium and iodine (Asda sell it as do most shops) and a multivitamin and start transitioning him off his bottles so when he's completed the milk ladder and is off the formula at 12 months he's fully on the oat milk xx

He's also correct there's not much point using cmpa formula for 7 weeks as it takes ,6 for symptoms to correct themselves once on the right formula xxx

I agree with the others that as long as your doing vitamins it should be ok? Has he done a referral to the dietician as you should at least get this? We struggled a lot at 4 months transitioning and took about 2 months for him to feed as a normal 6 month old again as he hated it and took ages to get the right formula for him (in the meantime lost weight although all allergies improved) so i personally wouldn’t put myself down that road if it was only 7 weeks away from transitioning to oat anyway.

We used the ALPRO growing up milk with added vitamins in (recommended by our dietician) x

baby is dairy free solid wise. He’s Deffo not severely allergic to dairy (obv he’s been on his formula since day one) but taking him off dairy foods has helped with indigestion problems however is still struggling with awful skin (eczema) and the other symptoms.
He’s also egg free.
Babies dad gave him a real yogurt the other month and he had a bad reaction to it.

Because we’re not getting anywhere with his skin the doctor thinks it’s best to come off dairy all together including his formula xxx

I will look for this added vits ones thank you x

we are on referral to dermatologists as we’re already doing the food diary and dairy and egg free so doctor says to keep doing this for another 6 months and if nothing is helping then wel be going to a dietrician xx

I would definitely go dairy free for 6 months and then get a dietician referral in that time so that once 6 months has passed they can guide you through the milk ladder and reintroducing dairy to see if he's grown out of it x

My friend used this with her little girl from 11 months for similar reasons and she's now perfectly healthy at 3 years old. She did change to supermarket own oat milk after a while but she said she felt a bit more reassured with the growing up milk as it's aimed specifically at toddlers

https://www.alpro.com/uk/products/drinks/growing-up/soya-growing-up-drink-1-3

I saw something recently about oat milk and how it’s full of pesticides. I was drinking loads of it when breastfeeding CMPA baby but now only buy organic because of this. If putting a young baby on it full time I’d maybe consider organic stuff, I’ll be doing the same. Don’t mean to sound hippy dippy or interfering, I’m not, was just surprised how much crap is in the average oat milk and wanted to share - lots about it online x

organic stuff isn’t suitable as a replacement for babies cause it’s not fortified it’s got no calcium or iodine added. If you are breastfeeding dairy free make sure your taking extra calcium and iodine supplements.

unsure what to do then as I also don’t think pesticides& chemicals in that quantity in a little body is suitable for him either. I’ll ask my dietician. I won’t be changing anything until 12m, hopefully we get through the milk ladder or there’s other options

I mean unless you grow all your own fruit and veg there will always be pesticides and preservatives on the crops and in the food you consume so I don't personally see an issue with using the fortified versions of oat milk to sustain nutrition for babies

maybe, I just wasn’t happy with the amount of chemicals in the drink that’s all. I do try to buy mostly organic as I do think pesticides in particular are bad for human health but literally drinking blended oats covered in pesticides as a main food is imp to me. I was only sharing the info don’t mean to annoy ppl with this, my personal view point after seeing info on it and felt could flag it x

has it specifically got calcium and iodine added to it? It doesn't look like it does so I'm going to say no probably not best to use the vitamins are likely fine x

that’s all it says on that one.
I haven’t swapped him over yet. I’m just introducing it to solids like wheatabix and porridge etc
The only thing with needing the one with added is there’s no shops nearby that sell it🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
The HV did say any oat milk with baby vitamins will be fine but I’m just nervous he won’t be getting enough vits 🤦‍♀️ x x

It depends what its for. Sometimes i use the aldi one in cooking especially if i am making one thing for all of us (just because its cheaper) or if i am running low on the Alpro one. But for bottles after 1 i will be using the Alpro one. You can get it in morrisons, tesco and sainsburys but for reference its in the long life milk section not the fridge (as this confused me for a while as i couldn’t find it in the fridges) x

id say no then our son's dietician and most of the other ones I've seen specifically request the added calcium and iodine. Asda and Tesco do it and there's the branded alpro growing up one that's usually readily available in most food shops. I'd personally not go with the HV advice as they aren't nutritionists or dieticians and aren't very knowledgeable in cmpa and other allergies etc xxx