Mom's who give soy...

IlliniQT

My LO has been on soy for serious fussiness and gas.  I have a milk protein allergy, so I am hoping his doesn't stick around (it's a PITA for me).  Do you plan to try milk at age 1?  I am curious what the pedi will say at our appointment.  I am wondering if they'll try milk or go straight to soy. 

I already decided if they want us to try cow's milk, I'll take a few days off work in case it goes BAD!

weebos8

We go back to the GI in May, and I am hoping then he will give us the green light to start to try some dairy with LO.  He has said he will want us to give him bits, but not until we get the ok. 

If he tolerates the dairy he eats well, we hope to go to regular milk.  If not, then I think we'll stick with soy.

jlsimon56

I just wanted to add that we are asking the pedi this week about milk - cow's milk, soy milk, almond milk, etc. to see what the pros and cons are for each.  LO doesn't have any diagnosed allergies, but has pretty bad eczema that lately I am wondering if it's from my diet (dairy).

lisamoe

DS was on soy, up until 4 days ago when we switched to regular Similac.

He had been on soy since 8 weeks for fussiness/gas.  It gave him horrible constipation, so I was really itching to switch him. I gave him cheese, cottage cheese and yogurt in small amounts to see if he would have reaction to more milk based products.  He did not, so I switched him.  So far, so good, no issues.

I figured it may be easier to switch him from regular formula over to whole milk at 1 yr, than from soy.  HTH. 

lucylea

DS is intolerant of dairy and I EBF so we are both dairy free.  This weekend we did a trial of baked in dairy per our pedi's recommendation, but unfortunately it didn't work out.  Poor LO has the allergy ring on his bum and painful gas again, although his diapers didn't get bad this time.  At 12 months I will trial baked in dairy for him again and if that goes well then slowly introduce dairy products.  My pedi as well as an allergist friend said to try baked in first as some MPI patients can tolerate that before full on dairy.