Anyone Dairy Free?

Are you meaning for yourself cos you are bfing? I was totally dairy free for about 6 months while feeding Hannah.

For milk you can have rice or soy. You may need to take a calcium supplement (just make sure it has no hidden dairy ingredients). Really you just cant have cheese and cream You can get dairy free ice-cream (Lite Licks in various flavours). And there are several brands of soy yoghurt. If you are going strictly dairy free, watch out for most biscuits, crackers and any meal tins/sachets etc. Oh and I thought that rice bran oil was dairy based (not sure about the lite one though).

Have a look at these - Manufactured foods database, click on the milk/lactose free link at the top, and this one has the list of foods that are derived from cows milk, plus the website is worth a look around as well.

Hope that helps.

I stopped bfing at about 14 weeks because I had 5 breast infections and nothing I tried would stop them from recurring and slowly weaned him to formula where he then got constipation and ezcema, gp and plunket were both totally clueless so I rang Karicare for some advice and they said it sounded like he had an allergy to the protein in the formula and that we would need to see a paed to get specialist formula on script. So we saw a paed and he agreed that it is most likely an allergy and we are now waiting for a script for neocate, if the constipation and ezcema disappear than thats definately what it is.
So if that is the case he won't be able to have cows or goats milk and introducing soy too early is likely to cause an allergic reaction to that as well.
Me and DH have talked about going dairy quite a few times, I was actually gonna give it a go before falling pregnant but then put off playing with my diet. I have a lot of digestive problems and think they might be eased by not having diary, afterall it is pretty gross when you think of it, I mean I wouldn't want to suckle at a cow!!!! Its a bit unnatural really.

Thanks for the links

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Hi there :-)

I am also dairy free (due to allergies to cow'd milk protein and lactose, but also ethics), egg free (due to ethics), and meat free (due to ethics and environmental reasons).

For a milk substitute, you have the recommended rice and soya milks.

You can also use a nut milk (if your DS isn't allergic to nuts) like almond milk or cashew milk. You can buy almond milk or make your own. Almond milk has a very creamy taste to it. Almond milk was used in the middle ages and during Tudor-Stuart times during Lent (when animal's milk was not allowed).

But because DS is a baby, you will probably need to feed him Neocate until he is old enough to have other milk substitutes.

and if they are allergic to dairy you generally you delay the other big ones..(so that includes nuts) ..or even if you arent allergic but it runs in the family.

Sanitarium do a 'So Good' Soy range and they have a chocolate 'icecream' which is sooo good. I just polished off nearly half a carton of it this arvo