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Hemp milk?

http://www.hellobee.com/2012/07/12/hemp-milk-the-best-alternative-to-cows-milk/

@Pollywog: amazon!

I think I had found it at target too.

@Pollywog: i was also going to suggest hemp milk! if i recall, it was at almost every health grocery by us!

I SAH so my experience may no be relevant. My LO was MSPI and couldn't tolerate WCM at a year but I was done with the pump (I pumped at least once a day up to that point). I tried hemp milk but he wasn't a big fan so I just offered water and nursed first thing in the morning, at naps, bedtime, and overnight. He was able to have WCM between 15-18 months, I don't remember when exactly but I just started very small amounts and continued nursing as we had until around 2.

@Pollywog: your LO sounds a lot like mine. I pumped until she was 16 months old when I went on summer vacation. I made vague attempts to get her to drink WCM and almond milk but I always felt she reacted and she mostly rejected it anyway. I did transition to straw cups around 13 months, daycare never said anything to me about it (and I would have been pretty mad if they had!). Same thing with pumping at work, I was only using up my prep time at school so no one would have ever said anything to me. They actually asked if I needed the pump room still when I went back this fall when she was 18 months so they were great about it!

When she went back to dc this fall at 18 months I just sent water. She can have dairy products now (basically started to tolerate those at same time) and continues to reject milk & mlk substitutes unless I mix with pumped milk (which I only have a small amount left of) and even then she won't drink much. We still nurse am/pm and before nap on the weekends.

So my long winded point is that if you are still nursing I wouldn't worry about switching over if you don't want to. Hopefully LO will grow out of his mspi and I think you'll find he'll take to dairy products more easily than regular milk if and when he can have them.

I kept pumping, my work didn't care. I pumped till about 14-15 ish months? Although I cut down to 1 pump a day. I always had a huge oversupply and still had a ton of BM in the freezer so I just used that.

I think hemp milk would be the best alternative, but my LO wouldn't drink it. He will drink rice milk but I don't like it that much (too low fat).

To give you some hope, my LO is almost 17 months now. He passed his blood allergy test for all top 8 allergens, so we did a "dairy challenge" with Similac sensitive (very low lactose) formula and now he is drinking that! Woohoo. We still have not tried WCM and we'll be trying lactose free to start with, and he's still had some reaction to dairy foods (butter), but we're making progress.

I still nurse him AM and PM too.

We weaned off formula and onto coconut milk at 11 months at the direction of our doctor.

LO is only 13 months, but we are not introducing cow's milk (with the pediatrician's blessing). We took advantage of her bottle hiatus while I was on winter break to make the switch to taking breast milk from a cup. It took about a week for her to adjust and for us to find the right cup. During that week, she was only drinking water during the day, and compensated with maybe a bit more food. Now that she's drinking breast milk from a straw cup, I've been surprised with how little seems to be enough for her - about half of what she was taking from bottles just a month ago!

I am still pumping once, on the way to work in the morning. I produce less than she drinks during the day. The plan when I run out of freezer stash is just to switch to water and food during the day, nursing when we are together.

We didn't do WCM with DS for the same reasons. We nursed when we were together, and he drank water. As long as he got sufficient calcium and fat from his other foods I didn't see a need for a milk alternative. He got a lot of coconut oil and avocado. I dropped to one pump/day after 11 months and petered out eventually once I realized DS was good with solids and water.

Yup, hemp milk. I was able to find it at my old grocery store, which was nothing special - it had a small, single aisle of organic/natural foods and I never had trouble finding it there. I haven't checked my local Target, but Wegman's has it. You can also order from Amazon (though my sister cautions against ordering stuff like that because packing may be insulted in shipment and compromise the product and OCCASIONALLY you're not getting what you think you're getting).