So Alethea is almost 14 months old.
We can't have dairy, wheat, corn, soy, eggs or nightshade.
She was tolerating neocate fine as a supplement, but we have been out of that for awhile. Basically she was just having some 3 days per week when I work, if she ran out of the milk I pumped.
Lately, on the three days I work, she doesn't even finish the milk I leave for her, even though it is usually only 12 oz at the most (I am gone for 8.5 hours). Maybe she wants something else to drink?
I took 1 cup of rice milk (I know, high in sugar) and added enough flax oil and rice protein powder to it such that it had the same amount of calories from fat and grams of protein as whole milk, which the average American baby her age would be drinking. I even put it in the blender to get it really mixed. She would not drink it. I believe it was because the powder made it too chalky. We use the nutribiotic powder, which I do love, but it is chalky. I tasted it and it did taste good, just chalky texture.
Does anyone else have any ideas?
Is there a less chalky safe protein powder? I'm thinking of trying that again but dissolving the powder is a little really hot rice milk first.
The ingredients on the neocate splash look bad, with maltodextrin in the list. I know there was corn in the neocate and she tolerated it, but it was not in the form of maltodextrin. I guess if she didn't react to that I would be fine with it, don't want to order a case, perhaps they'd send a sample?
I was thinking of straight coconut milk, but that wouldn't have the calcium or protein.
TIA,
Tracy
We can't have dairy, wheat, corn, soy, eggs or nightshade.
She was tolerating neocate fine as a supplement, but we have been out of that for awhile. Basically she was just having some 3 days per week when I work, if she ran out of the milk I pumped.
Lately, on the three days I work, she doesn't even finish the milk I leave for her, even though it is usually only 12 oz at the most (I am gone for 8.5 hours). Maybe she wants something else to drink?
I took 1 cup of rice milk (I know, high in sugar) and added enough flax oil and rice protein powder to it such that it had the same amount of calories from fat and grams of protein as whole milk, which the average American baby her age would be drinking. I even put it in the blender to get it really mixed. She would not drink it. I believe it was because the powder made it too chalky. We use the nutribiotic powder, which I do love, but it is chalky. I tasted it and it did taste good, just chalky texture.
Does anyone else have any ideas?
Is there a less chalky safe protein powder? I'm thinking of trying that again but dissolving the powder is a little really hot rice milk first.
The ingredients on the neocate splash look bad, with maltodextrin in the list. I know there was corn in the neocate and she tolerated it, but it was not in the form of maltodextrin. I guess if she didn't react to that I would be fine with it, don't want to order a case, perhaps they'd send a sample?
I was thinking of straight coconut milk, but that wouldn't have the calcium or protein.
TIA,
Tracy
