Milk allergy in 1 year old Question

[starryfish]

My DD turned ONE year old today! 

She has been on RX formula for 4 months due to her severe milk allergy. I have some frozen B milk left in the freezer we have started using but after that runs out, I need ideas. 

What "milk" did your baby go on? Almond? Coconut? Soy? Nothing?

Also, how did you transition and do you do "milk" at meals or snack time? She has been on 4 bottles a day (7am/11am/3pm/7pm) for a while but will take sippies so we have started doing that. Do I need to move the "milk" to meal times now?

thanks! 

[dcn]

Is it an allergy or mpi? My nephew was mpi and he drank goat milk and ate goat milk yogurt and coconut milk yogurt.

[joy]

Happy Birthday Little One!

I’ll speak to moving to milk, not the allergy.

We do milk when she gets up and when she goes to bed. The rest of the day she gets water. This was mostly her showing no interest in milk during the day, however.

She still has a bottle when she gets up and bottle before bed. We dropped the other bottles (after naps) and replaced wth sippies of water and ultimately now it’s just sippies of water at meals.

Very soon, we’re going to switch her bottles to sippies of milk. She’s been resistant but I gave her a three month grace period with those as I wanted her FULL before bed and - as my husband says - “she’s so little!” Ha.

Good luck!

[lauralala]

We moved to almond milk based on taste preference, and we started doing milk at meal times only. I know kids don't need milk of any kind, but DS loved milk, so I wanted something he could drink. He is 8 now and still loves almond milk.

[macmars45]

My BFF's DD (20 months) is allergic to milk and eggs. I'll ask her what type of milk works for her and update you on that when she gets back to me.    
Update: my BFF says cashew protein milk by Silk.

Transitioning from formula to milk was a daunting process. At first I offered milk only at afternoon snack just to get DS used to WCM. As we dropped bottles he started getting milk at meals and water at snacks and any other time he is thirsty. So we'd just decide that we were dropping the 3pm bottle and offer food/water instead. Then 5-7 days later the 10am bottle and did the same and so on. By 13.5 months he was down to just his bedtime bottle which we weaned him off of at 16.5 months.

DS is now 19.5 months old and drinks 16-20 oz of milk a day.

[starburst604]

No milk allergy experience, but I don't remember the transition to from formula/bottles being a huge thing. We had been trying out sippies with meals at home and daycare for a while prior. I think I did 50/50 milk/formula in her bottles for a few days after she turned one and she seemed to like it fine so we just went right to milk. The day she turned one, daycare literally handed me back the bottles we stored there and exclusively gave her sippies from there, so that cut out the mid-day bottles. In the morning, instead of giving a bottle upon waking I just brought her downstairs and served breakfast with a cup of milk or water. We dropped the bedtime bottle last, around 13-14 months. She never asked for it again. I think daycare cutting the mid-day bottles was a huge help, I don't know if I'd have had the nerve to do that so quickly on my own. I don't think she was ever terribly attached to her bottles though, and I know some kids are. She was also confidently eating lot of solids by one. Her paci was and is her big vice though lol.

Oh as far as the milk choices, I don't know if your DD is in daycare but almond milk may not be allowed there. It isn't at ours (which is great bc my dd is allergic to almonds).

[Poppy]

We did coconut milk, though in retrospect I probably would have chosen soy. Coconut milk has very little protein.

The chain daycare we attended said no almond (nut-free center). Our pedi said any alternative milk was ok since they're all fortified. I was wary of soy due to the concerns that it emulates estrogen but TBH I feel a little guilty about buying into that because I didn't really take the time to check the quality of the science on it.

[Blue Moon]

Just curious as the mom of a fellow milk allergy baby, have you tried to introduce dairy at all?

I’m wondering a lot of these same questions as well so thanks for posting. Happy birthday to your DD!

[Poppy]

Also, we get the "original" not the unsweetened, which I think is more appetizing. I felt better about that choice after comparing the sugar in alternative milk to the sugar in regular dairy milk.

[starryfish]

Dec 11, 2017 16:23:38 GMT -5 Blue Moon said:

Just curious as the mom of a fellow milk allergy baby, have you tried to introduce dairy at all?

I’m wondering a lot of these same questions as well so thanks for posting. Happy birthday to your DD!

Yes....her birthday cake had dairy in it (very little) and she was a mess. She has bigger GI issues outside the dairy/milk problem.

[starryfish]

Dec 11, 2017 16:05:13 GMT -5 Poppy said:

We did coconut milk, though in retrospect I probably would have chosen soy. Coconut milk has very little protein.

The chain daycare we attended said no almond (nut-free center). Our pedi said any alternative milk was ok since they're all fortified. I was wary of soy due to the concerns that it emulates estrogen but TBH I feel a little guilty about buying into that because I didn't really take the time to check the quality of the science on it.

That was my thought as well regarding soy milk...so is it not true? Our daycare offers almond or soy as an alternative.

[redblue]

We use Ripple unsweetened. It's a pea protein. It's high in protein and calcium. I think it tastes awful but DD loves it. www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/smart-choices/what-is-pea-milk

[fayeelle]

E was MSPI so we transitioned to hemp and oat milks. Right at 1yr I started offering in a sippy cup and then only offered alt. milk after she weaned at about 16mths. This kid will drink milk all day, everyday if we let her so I had to limit it to AM wake-up, nap and before bed. As she got older we dropped the before nap milk. We kept this up for about 2yrs. She just finally outgrew the mpi about 2 months ago so I made the switch to 2% which she does mostly fine with.

[boiler717]

My son also has a tree nut allergy, but regardless both the pedi and allergist recommended unsweetened soy milk over the almond milk because of higher fat content. They say the concerns over soy are not found in the data.
We also use Ripple unsweetened (pea protein) because it has high fat / protein. I love their half and half, too. Coconut milk has a lot of saturated fat so I’d skip that.

[gretchenindisguise]

We went with oat milk.

He outgrew his dairy issues around 2ish and now likes both cow and oat/almond.

[shortcake2675]

My son is MSPI, though he’s outgrown the severe milk issues to a point he can eat cheese, but still has severe soy issues. We do almond milk. I wish it was higher in protein, but he eats plenty otherwise. He’s being a pill about it, and I’m letting him drink chocolate. It’s got less sugar than his sister’s cow milk.

We used hemp milk in cooking and I liked it, but the smell made me nauseous after 18 months. He eats cultured coconut yogurt. I’ve never seen Ripple here. I get twitchy about legumes with the soy issues. I think it’s in my head, lol.

[mnp555]

DD had MSPI. I nursed her til 20 months. At 1 we tried to introduce alt-milks, but no dice. So we’ve been doing just water for about 18 months. Her pedi is not worried at all as there are other ways to get the nutrition of milk.

[yourmother]

My DS drank the Silk Unsweetened Soy milk when we stopped formula. He drank that for about a year and a half until we tried cow's milk with him. He's no longer sensitive to cow's milk, so he now gets 2% milk.

He only gets bottles of milk at breakfast, nap and bedtime. It's water the rest of the time.