Neocate LCP- weight gain

Hello! My 8 week old (3 weeks corrected) has been struggling to gain weight since she was discharged from her 2 week stay in NICU/SCBU. In 6 weeks of yo-yoing she has only put on 400g. She was breastfeeding and having EBM top ups at every feed, tolerating the full amount well. The outreach team and dieticians suspect she has CMPA, so I immediately went dairy free. In just under a week of DF she still had only gained 40g, so she was started on Neocate LCP for every feed to try to get some calories into her. She gets weighed again tomorrow and will have been on the formula since Wednesday evening. What sort of weight gain is expected if Neocate is working well for baby? Normal 20-30g per day or a higher amount if prescribed for faltering growth? Thanks!! Pic of our tiny girl for attention 🥰
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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.

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?

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