soy feeding infants

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Darla

 

It sounds like your daughter has weened the baby. If that is so I would stay

away from formulas soy or otherwise if she can. as a mother of 11 children I

have had a lot of experience with feeding problems. Soy formulas can

actually form a bolus in the babies gut and needs to be used with care. I

have used raw goats milk with my babies and this is the first milk other

then breast milk that they are given. Here is a link to an article that

might be helpful. http://www.healthnews-nz.com/infants.html . I do believe

that there are some commercially available baby formulas made from goats

milk if she is concern about using raw milk.

If she hasn't weened yet and would like to continue to breast feeding. she

should look at her own diet. All to often Drs and others are to quick to

recommend that a colicky unsettled baby is weened and placed on formula when

a all that is required is a change in diet of the mother. so much of what we

eat is passed on to the baby via breast milk and by documenting what we eat

each day and the babies reaction and by a process of elimination we can

usually find the cause of the problem. some common food groups that cause

problems in babies are dairy, wheat, and foods high in acids like tomatoes

and oranges windy foods like cabbages ect. I have used this method my self

to calm a colicky baby as have a few of my friends and we have all gone to

continue to breast fee well into the babies second year. I hope this is of

some help. Both camomile and catnip teas are good for settling colicky

babies

 

Lynn