OK the time has come.
I am fed up of making formula, and need a break from it before the new baby arrives in 3 months.
I am due to do a milk trial with DS in the next few weeks, but in the meantime i thought I'd try goats milk. Which was a complete disaster. We bigged it up "hey this is big boys milk, from the carton, can you see the goat picture on it?" Tried it in a beaker, big boys cup, on cereal.....
NOT HAPPENING!
TBH i dont think he will take kindly to normal milk now even if his stomach could tolerate it. He's just so set on the WYsoy
I have weaned down the amount of soy milk to about 6oz per day. A little bit with cereal, and 1 beaker either morning or night. Other times he has watered down orange juice or apple juice, or sugar free dilutey cordial.
I am concerned that every time i see a health professional their eyes pop out on stalks when I say he has soy milk. Like "OMG, you feed your child something thats going to wither his testes and you dont even care" type attitude. Its not that I dont care, Up until now, its been important for me and for him to be happy, healthy and have the nutritional benefits. But, he is eating well now (for a toddler!) and has a relative good range of foods. Will eat veg and fruit at most meals, and eats meat, potatoes and pasta.
So my question is this......should i just quit the milk completely? I'm pretty sure at the next trial I can get him to tolerate small amounts of cheese for calcium intake (he likes it too so thats a bonus). Should I just be grateful he's gaining weight and growing/developing as i would expect.
He's on the 9th centile for weight, and between 2-9 for height, but has been since day 1!
If you've read this far, then thanks, and I'd appreciate your thoughts
Lili xx