Neocate LCP- weight gain
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Btw she’s so cute
I find that my little one doesn't gain a lot either on neocate. He's 6 months old and still fits 0-3 clothes. He is now more mobile so not sure if that has anything to do with it he's also on the 9th centile (been up and down them) he hasn't been weighed recently but by looks and feeling it hasn't seen to have changed
My baby didn’t gain much with neocate even when it was bumped up to 26/kal, she’s now 18m and weighs 21lbs but even now she’s a tiny baby and wearing 9m clothing but as a infant she was constantly in 5% or lower sometimes; her weight chart always went upwards which is good but it was little by little ounces she put on each visit
@Kai I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that's gone through the same!
My daughter wasn’t gaining much weight either but she had a swallowing test and needed thickener in her breast milk…do your hospitals give safe donated breast milk?
No advice re. the formula - in case you are still breastfeeding I just wanted to add that it will take much longer being dairy free to see weight gain. My LO started putting on more weight after around 4 weeks of me being DF, but some guidance says it can take 6 weeks x
We had similar issues on althera and now on infatrini peptisorb, which goes down much better. We're aiming for weight gain between 20-30g, but so far has put on 60 -180g per week in the last month, it really depends on how her tum has been. She's also super active and not great at sleeping which probably isn't helping
this may be the cutest photo i’ve ever see
Hi, in my experience they want to see linear growth, in the normal range of 20-30 but for it to keep going for several weeks. my son was put on Neocate in NICU (due to a bowel condition not CMPA) but he barely put any weight on it. Dietitians had no explanation why but they tried a different amino acid forumla (Alfamino) and his weight gain took off. He went from being under the centile charts to 50th now at 8 months. My point being is that even if formulas are theoretically the same it might take some attempts to find the right one.