Go the SOY!!!!!

[Tisme]

I am here today to share the absolute joy and pleasure that SOY has brought to my life ..... LOL

Firstly (in case you don't read to the end) don't assume that allergies don't run in families. I have three beautiful children now (4,2, and nb) and they are all allergic to Animal fat proteins (cows AND goats). I never believed it possible, hence the following tale, but I wish to enlighten those who believed as I did ... it happens, my family are prrof!!!!!

I have gotten home from hospital today with a very happy and content bottle fed baby boy thanks to the wonderful invention of Soy formula.

For those who didn't see my other thread I was having trouble with Declan in-utero having MASSIVE atacks of movement whenever I consumed anything dait\ry related. Regardless of my instincts i chose to try him with dairy formula in the hospital once he was born. Well come last Mon my little boy entered the world and refused to feed for the first 24 hrs (I did TRY pwomise) and ended up Having to have the bottle anyways so I tried dairy formula. He appeared fine and settled all Tues afternoon and night. On Wed we started to see a DIFFERENT boy, gut ache, projectile, and even completely conscious NON-REM sleep times .... Thurs we tried Goats milk and ended up with NO SLEEP and VERY upset little man. Paed told me Fri to try Soy before he gave me the script and when I mentioned all the research he laughed and said "inconclusive". I tried soy and within that 4 hour period he settle, sighed, winded and SLEPT as a normal baby would.

As i said I am now home from hospital and thanks to the soy formula once again can rest assured that my child is getting the right nutrients and vitamins and is putting on weight steadily and as should be. None of my children could tolerate my breast milk, as it had traces of dairy coming through to them ... and as I suffer if I don't have dairy that wasn't an option. I am now just thankful that someone somewhere in the world thought of the idea of "milking" a plant to give an alternative to animal proteins. I'm not vegan, but the animal protein does my kids no good!!!!

[♥Heaven Sent♥]

Hi there,
I agree that soy is good.My daughter is lactose intollerant and i didnt really find that out till she was about 4 months old.So i end up cutting out all dairy food.But i have tried her on some soy choc milk and she never even threw it up.So when i change from formula to milk when shes 1 i will be giving her soy milk.:)

[reAllytee]

Im glad to hear all is now going well Eleanor !
Bubs is gawjus !
Sometimes there is no alternative & whats right for one babe is right for another & vice versa !
Good luck & well done :D

[nemosmum]

Yep we love soy too (But am still worried about soy overload and my bub becoming allergic to that too:eek: )

Orlando has had adverse reactions to milk since I stopped bfing him around 11 months, we put him on a hyper allegenic formula but this didnt help, so we had him on a special prescription formula which was great:D

Then at around 15 months we stopped the formual and put him on soy, he was very good for a long time but then I got nervous about him having soy all the time and the chance of him becoming allergic to it.

So we put him on goats milk and well he spent his first night in hospital with asthma symptoms.........I believe its all related as a while back we tried him on normal cows milk and he got a ear infection.

We are back on the soy now and will stay that way :)

[Sarie]

I'm glad it worked for you that's great!
We tried putting Nat on Soy when we were first trying to find formula for him but it was awful. From the first bottle it gave him the most terrible wind pains, it was awful. We ended up putting him onto Goat formula (hubby had Goats milk when he was a bub) and it was brilliant. We put PJ onto Goat formula straight away when he was born and will do the same with number 3 when he/she eventually arrives;)

[nemosmum]

Yep I have heard good things about goats milk too, it cleared DH eczema when he was a child:)

[Sarie]

Yeah that was why hubby was on it and for both boys. They are so similar, in photos you can't really tell the difference except that PJ has dark hair and Nat was blonde at this age. Though we actually got asked yesterday if they were twins!

[Mrs Little]

My son will be 6 months in 4 weeks...YAY.

How time seems to fly. :(

It will mean that he needs to move onto the next formula...the follow on one.
I was considering changing him to soy instead of the karicare. Are there any disadvantages to using soy? I've heard somewhere that soy formula doesn't give them something? (Sorry...very vague i know....but i can't remember).

Thanks.

Mrs Little & Son.

[Tisme]

I personally think that the only thing soy doesn't give them is that which they don't need (if allergic) the animal fat preotein!!!

Karicare make a soy product (which I use) and I have heard that they use all the same vitamin and mineral base in it as their other products (whey, Gold, and Goats) then they seperate into the four different products. So if you wish to transfer to Soy perhaps look into the Karicare Soy.

I know with Ciaran (hence haven't tried with Alana) he had a severe gut ache with Infasoy as we couldn't get Karicare when he was around 6 months old (on a train ride from Brisbane to Sydney with a baby AND gut ache .... ahhhhhhhh) I still to this day do not understand why the 2 soy products reacted so differently for him but I am sticking to Karicare!!! It's also the cheaper here ($17 a tin instead of $23)

[Mrs Little]

Well i'm pre-pared to give it a go in 4 weeks time.

I must admit i do like karicare.
I'll try to find the soy formula in our Franklins supermarket (where we shop).

I'm hoping it will help a little with his wind and reflux. We will also be putting him on solids in 4 weeks too...hmmm...maybe i should make one change at a time so i can make sure i know what he's had a reaction too...if he has one.

Thanks.

Mrs Little & Son.

[jarrahsmumma]

Mrs Little, there are some disadvantages to using soy. It *can* be just as allergenic as cows milk, and contains high amount of phytoestrogens which can be bad in high amounts. Especially in people nt meant to have lots of it in their bodies, ie males... If you want some more info, I will dig up some links :D