Soy Formula and bowel movements

jamie217 · August 2010

We switched one of my DDs to soy based formula last week because she was having gas and constipation and we saw some improvement.

We also had to take her to the pedi on Monday for reflux and mentioned the change, she said if there is an improvement to stick with it, but soy can be binding and that it takes a full week for their bodies to adjust to a formula change, well the past 3 days her bowel movements have been harder than normal (not as hard as an adult - sorry if that's TMI) at times. Now we're debating switching her back because now she seems like she's in a pain while she's having a bowel movement.

Did anyone else have this experience with soy? Did you switch or handle it another way? TIA!

christina1313 · August 2010

When we switched to soy, we had to put a little bit of Dark Karo syrup in DD's bottles to keep her from getting constipated. We had to add more when she started on rice in her bottles at three weeks, too. It definitely makes a difference to add the syrup.

tbone22308 · August 2010

Huh. My pedi switched us to Enfamil AR on Wednesday, DD got constipated, so she told us to switch to soy formula to see if it helps before we go the putting juice in her bottle route. Now i'm wondering if the soy will help the constipation at all!

naturelle25 · August 2010

yep, we had to switch DS to regular formula bc he was super constipated from it.

D_Nett86 · August 2010

I put my DS on soy to try it since it doesn't seem like the Enfamil AR was working any and his BM were very soft and very frequent. He even had a couple of blow outs. I was changing poopy diapers every 2 hours when I put him on soy. But now that I switched him back to the AR he has been constapated. I almost want to put him back on the soy so he can poop again without a struggle!