Formula query

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Permalink Reply by Sara B on January 26, 2012 at 8:00pm

Nutramigen aa is fine up to a year, thereafter most people go on to neocate active. X

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Permalink Reply by Verity on January 26, 2012 at 8:24pm

Finley is on neocate and I'm doing baby led weaning, he's on a ristricted diet too. Neocate and nutramigen AA are basically the same just a different name is how I think of it lol. So he will be fine having that and doing baby led weaning. I like a phrase I think Jen Rawlings uses 'food is for fun before one'. My hv tolde today finley should be taking roughly 25 oz of milk a day and his three meals. Today he took 30 oz which is the most he has ever took! 

Milk is still the most important up until one xx

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Permalink Reply by Jenny Rawling on January 26, 2012 at 9:00pm

Follow on formula is a con to get round the code banning advertising of breastmilk substitutes before 6 months. Babies are designed to very gradually transition from getting most of their nutrition from milk to getting most of it from solids, they do not suddenly become deficient in anything at 6 months old. We did dairy (and soya) free BLW and it worked very well for us, it probably took until about 9m until Matthew ate significant quantities of solids. There are a lot of babies on here who have extremely restricted diets due to food allergies/intolerances and do fine on mainly formula well into their second year.

I would suggest you ask to be referred to a dietician soon as the waiting lists can be long. A lot of people have issues introducing solids to LRs and also then you can be reassured that you are providing a balanced diet. As Matthew has moved to more solids and less milk, we have introduced calcium and multivit supplements to ensure he is not deficient in anything. We will see the dietician every 6 months until he is back on a "normal" diet. At the moment he is 20m and although we are seeing some hopeful signs that he is outgrowing the intolerances he still can't tolerate much dairy/soya.

My theory about the BLW us that putting the child in charge of how much they eat and having small amounts of many different foods allows the gut to mature to the point where it can cope. The only downside I would forsee is if you are  unfortunate enough to have a child with multiple food intolerances it would make it difficult to pinpoint what is a problem and you may have to go back to "one new food every 4 days".

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Permalink Reply by kylie davidson on January 26, 2012 at 9:34pm

I'm just starting to wean Rylee properly on and off food for the past month she isn't keen on spoons so we r combining the 2 approaches using her safe foods as finger food and purrees of others so rice cakes baby crisps butternut squash parsnip as finger foods then the 4 days of a new purree to she if she reacts to them (2 days in to Apple which she loves so fingers crossed)

I'm going to the gp next week for a dietian referall as so far Rylee is diary soya and oats free and I need some help

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