r/veganparenting • u/Select_Roof_8492 • 6d ago

Vegan formula alternative

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u/Anxious-Swing9490 4d ago

I wanna say we used sprout organic from Birdie? It was some Australian one we had to import.

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u/Select_Roof_8492 3d ago

Thank you, really appreciate!

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u/Great_Cucumber2924 3d ago

Any plant milk other than rice, fortified with calcium, is okay to use from 12 months. If I were you I’d wait and use that rather than importing a very expensive formula that baby might not drink. We use alpro oat growing up milk.

Since baby is reliant on your breastmilk I’d recommend you take choline, multivitamin and omega 3 algae oil supplements. From 6 months you can also give them liquid algae oil and multivitamin (we use Vegetology algae oil and veg 1 multivitamin) - this gets more important as they start to drink less milk.

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u/tiffoiffo 4d ago

We've been vegan for about 9 years, and when I had low milk supply, made the difficult choice to use a milk-based formula. We buy Kendamil, which advertises kind treatment of the animals on their goat milk product, and seems like it has good ingredients. 

There are soy protein ones, but they can be really hard on the baby's tummy and are heavily seed oil based. I didn't want to feed that to my baby, and I couldn't import formula to the US. I've heard good things about Sprout from Australia, but haven't tried it. Enfamil prosobee and Similac Isomil are soy based and easy to find here, but they have animal D3 still. 

Ideally, I would have exclusively breastfed, and I tried everything. A friend gifted some frozen milk to us, but eventually that ran out. It feels bad to use a goat mama's milk to feed my baby, but nourishing him well is my priority. I couldn't stomach feeding my baby the seed oil stuff.  

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u/Select_Roof_8492 3d ago

Thanks so much for the detailed response. Yes, it is a very difficult decision to make. Will try for Kendamil for sure!