Help needed - Weaning a dairy intolerant baby with finger foods only

kezlou

Hi they,

Hope these are ideas are of some use to you.

breakfast
toast/crumpets with nut/pumpkin seed butter (made with oil).
This a thread by weezl, which has a few dairy free recipes for nut butter and apple curd.
porridge made with breast milk,
kedergree: - basically boil rice till soft, drain and leave to settle while you fry an eggs with a little oil, some salt/pepper,nuts, veg, meat, fish etc , place the rice in with the egg mixture , fry till combined and warmed. Then serve. I know this is a lot off faffing about but the above can be frozen into little portions for the future.

lunch
carrot sticks, cucumber batons
mashed up banana on toast
pasta and sauces
falafel
avocado
omeelette
dhal - basically lentils cooked and mixed with spices, good for toast, and a filling main meal.
rice pudding - boil rice in breastmilk and some water, tiniest amount of sugar (optional), or boil the rice in coconut milk and serve.
hommus
vegetable stir fry
prawn crackers - a good little snack which can served hot or cold.
plain mashed potato i.e just mashed with no butter etc, small bits of sausage and some beans or gravy.
liver pate on toast
tangy bean pate both of these contains lots of protein and iron.

If i can think of anything else i'll post them up.

good luck x

moppet_217

My son was eventualy diganosed as lactose intolerant at about 16 weeks old after continuing to loose weight, upset stomachs and being in genral really grumpy. He was even afteced mildly by what was coming through breast milk and was not putting on weight so we decided to swap to formula and it than got ten times worse. Your sounds more of a contact alergy which my son had with several foods mainly spinch and other simalar foods.

Do NOT give your baby soy milk as it main drink we were advised by every NHS professional we came into contact with about his intolerance. Apparently there is some small evedince that it could lead to infertility later in life. Our son was placed on a cow and gate prescrption formula that we used for his milk and for cooking. Have you spoken directly to your health visitor they can prescribe it for you? After the doctors kept saying there was nothing wrong with our son our health visitor put him on a 1 month trial of the milk and he gained about 9lbs in the first two weeks.

Be careful with other foods that are known to cause alergies e.g. nuts, eggs etc. Lots of foods have dairy in them so I always used to go for the vegan options.

We partly followed the BLW with him and foods that were not finger foods as such e.g. yogurts he attempeted to feed himself anyway.

In regards to food

We could not find a soy cheese that he would eat.
Alpro soy yoghurts were a favourite.
Chunks of Avacado was always a great also lots of good fat and calories in them
I used to get my butcher to mince up meat for me and make it into patties.
Toast spread with various purred foods
large pasta shapes
pork ribs (any meat on a bone and he would knore it off.)
Pancakes (made with dairy free milk and butter)
my son started eating sandwiches(tuna, avacdo, bananna) from about 7-8 months but he did have a few teeth by then and we had to make sure they were really well squished together.
rice noodles


At about 20 months we gradully introduced dairy back into his diet and now he is 2 1/2 he is now back onto a toally normal diet.

hope some of that helps a bit

Kimitatsu

My son is dairy gluten and soya intolerant so we use lactofree which is lactose free. Its great as it does cheese and yoghurt in handy sizes, and milk in litre cartons. I would try this because it is likely that he is intolerant to the lactose rather than the milk protein.

So I feed him, rice crispies or gluten free bread (homemade, Lakeland do a really nice mix) or pancakes made with rice flour and lactofree for breakfast. Sausages, bacon, eggs, beans all that sort of thing for breakfast, if he is away on camp.

Lunch is either veggies and humous, or veggies and dip, gf bread sarnies, gf pasta with chicken and hm mayo, soup that sort of thing. Yoghurt (DF) or jelly, fruit and a HM biscuit. My sons both loved avocado and banana mashed together.

Dinner, pasta and bolognese, meatballs and pasta, HM burgers with potato wedges and veggies, Roast dinners, pasta bake with gf pasta and homemade sauce, frittatas with veggies, curry with veggies and rice.

I know when you first start out it seems a huge hurdle to cross as everything that you buy off the shelf seems to have milk/lactose/whey powder in, but if you make most of your own stuff at home then it is SO much easier and they will not go hungry. My son is now 11, had never missed a residential trip because I just email the catering manager with pretty much the above list, and is a strapping lad nearly 5ft tall already. It is a bit of a case of trying it and seeing how he is, a paediatrician can only test for certain intolerances , but you may find that he has others as he gets older. Anabell Carmels books were great for making meals that everyone could eat too .

zygurat789

Been there suffered that. Too painful to read it all in detail.
But two things worked for us
1. Goats milk instead of cows milk. It is now available in supermarkets but in our day we had to find a farm with a herd of goats.
2. Read all the ingredients especially for margerines, they all seem to contain whey, this is cows milk and gets into lots of things like biscuits cakes etc etc etc ad infinitum

The good news is at 5 it was virtually over although she now has eczema and asthma but this does not stop her leading a normal life and running half marathons.

Waxy_Bean

Triker wrote: »

Ask your Dr to prescribe it?

Sorry I wasn't clear - she can't prescribe that either, that has to come through the specialist. But she did tell me what he would prescribe in case I wanted to buy it off the shelf (which I don't think I do!).

I suspect somewhere that whoever holds the purse strings has said that GPs in my area cannot prescribe specialist formula milks, that they have to be prescribed by a specialist.

Anyhoo, his appointment is not until the 17th June so I'm stuck avoiding dairy and continuing to breastfeed until then.

Waxy_Bean

And thank you to everyone else who has replied - there are some great ideas there, and I'm a bit more enthused about weaning again!

sianster

I have a 10mth son - no allergies thank goodness but dairy free foods he loves to feed himself are:

toast fingers
banana
wedges of hard boiled egg
breadsticks
fruit bread - made in my breadmaker is wholemeal with oil and has lots of dried fruit in for energy
grapes cut in half
organix sweetcorn rings
slices of apple slightly stewed
slices of ripe peeled pear
peach slices (tinned in juice or fresh)
pineapple chunks
pasta with tomato sauce
omlette

good luck!

narabanekeater

My son is exactly the same. You can buy a milk direct from chemists called Nutramigen stage 1 for up to 6 months then stage 2 for 6 months plus
My son didnt get on with Neocate. The problem with GPS prescribing milk according to my pharmacist is how much the stuff costs to the NHS. My son had a single bottle of medicine every week which cost the NHS 500 a bottle:eek: no that wasn't not a typo but its the only thing that works for him.
I may also advise you to get a badge made for about a pound off of ebay and when you take him to parties etc when he's older make him wear the badge. I discovered the hard way when I left my son to go to the loo. He was fed trifle. This women who ive never met simply said dont worry love its got no lumps in. It was over a week before the effects stopped. People dont realise how bad allergies can be. So now he had a badge that says please dont feed me im allergic to dairy to wear
All baking we make with pure spread and he did eat a lot of pasta when weaning
Feel free to PM me tp chat or for more help
Im told it can be a fight to get what you need from the NHS luckily ive never had too much trouble

bitsandpieces

Mankysteve wrote: »

PS his symptoms are not intolerance but allergic.

Yes - so worth being a bit cautious with goats milk etc. Hopefully the appointment with the specialist is fairly soon, so they can prescribe/advise appropriate foods?

mumto1_2

OP, dont' worry about how much he's eating - as you say -'under one, just for fun' try here: http://www.babyledweaning.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=2c2d5184112225bc28c4f75485f7fc03 for help with baby-led weaning, they've tried it, done it all on there.

Mine was baby-led weaned, and he eats well.