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Will she eat avocado?

Sunbutter was a go it. It had just a few more calories per bite than peanut butter. We did peanut butter on bananas a lot. Coconut yogurt from Whole Foods was a godsend. I used coconut oil to cook the scrambled eggs up. We did a LOT of meats like bacon and pepperoni. Not great but something.

We also used Neocate Splash which is a hypoallergenic food product. That helped more than anything else. It was expensive but so worth it for my son. He was Failure to Thrive from 6 months - 18 months old.

ETA: we tried adding oil to purees and he stopped eating them completely.

I hope this isn't totally unhelpful, but my LO outgrew his dairy allergy at 14 months - so if your little is 11.5 months, there is hope!! His allergy was pretty severe - he would projectile vomit if we gave him milk, cheese, pretty much anything. But I kept trying little samples, once a month or so, and suddenly it was like a switch flipped.

Until that happened for us, I mashed an awful lot of avocados. I also tried hemp milk, but he hated it. I think @adira: has a LO with dairy intolerance (she recommended hemp milk to me!) so she might have some good tips. Could you try other nut butters too, like almond? Maybe a slightly different flavor.

@Anagram: LO also straight up refused Neocate, but he looooooved Alimentum. I gave up BFing because I couldn't (okay, wouldn't) stick to the MSPI diet. So he was on Alimentum until he was over his dairy allergy. Maybe your ped office could give you a sample to try?

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Xander is allergic to dairy so he drinks hemp milk. It has almost as much fat as WCM, so I feel pretty good about his fat intake. I also feed him a TON of almond milk yogurt which has a decent amount of fat AND protein.

I also try to feed him more meats to supplement his lack of protein in his milk.

My vegan friends give soymilk or hemp milk, which are the fattiest plant milks, and add coconut oil or flax oil to them. My LO isn't allergic, but I'm planning on skipping wcm, and this will be my plan, combined with bf. Flax oil with DHA seems to be a great supplement in general-try Udo's or Spectrum refrigerated brands.

I used to give LO pasta with a 'sauce' of mashed avocado, olive oil, garlic and Italian seasoning and she loved it. She still eats it noe that she can have dairy but I add parm. If bigger pasta is an issue, try pastina - it's like the tiny stars.

@Anagram: if you want to use the food processor you can add basil and it's just like pesto! I totally like it too! Hmm sugar on avocado huh? I'll have to try it sugar and lime I could get behind!

@Anagram: R outright REFUSED nutramigen formula (I also tried to stop pumping because I was over it)...homegirl was having none of that! But, our pedi gave us the toddler one and I think it 'tastes' better so I was able to slowly wean her to that. Have you ever tried nutramigen?

@Anagram: of course it's completely your call, but I looked into the soy/estrogen thing when deciding what to feed our son, and a lot of it seems to be myth. Plant phytoestrogens, which many legumes such as chickpeas have, don't seem related to human estrogen. I look to societies with high soy consumption, and feel comforted that there don't seem to be problems there. Ymmv! Fortunately there are lots of options.