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childcarebytori 08:04 PM 08-13-2011
I have had one of my daycare children in care since the itty bitty age of 3 weeks. Smarty-pants is now an extremely smart 2-year-old who is the only child under 3 years old who I include in our Preschool lessons. She counts to ten in English and Spanish, she recites the entire alphabet almost perfectly (her L,M,N,O and P still sound like "elmo pea"), she speaks in clear sentences, she knows all of the other dcks' parents by name and will greet them in the morning, and she is a well-trained sign-language 'speaker'. I would most definitely say she is advanced for her age.

The week of her 1st birthday, her mother and I slowly started the transition from formula to cows milk. We added more and more milk to her bottles each day and by Thursday DCG is sent home for continual vomit and loose BM's. Doctor suggests DCG is lactose-intolerant and we make a plan to start soy milk the following Monday. Monday we start adding soy milk into her bottles and on Wednesday DCG is back to loose bm's and frequent vomiting. By now, she is refusing bottles and cups all together, even with water or juice. With no liquids going into DCG, it warrants another trip to the pediatrician and Mom is recommended to try Next Step Formula. The doctor told Mom she thinks the DCG's stomach is too sensitive for whole cow milk and that soy milk doesn't taste the same which is why DCG refuses bottles and cups.

Monday we take a bandaid approach. We took away the infant formula and gave her Next Step in her bottles instead. When Friday came and DCG hadn't thrown up or had a loose bm, we decided the Next Step formula was a success.

Fast-forward to present time. DCG is thriving and Mom makes jokes sometimes that she thinks the Next Step formula made her daughter a genius. DCG is still on Next Step toddler formula and she will have formula to drink when the rest are having cow milk, or very rarely coconut/almond milk if she likes it that day. Mom has plans to purchase the Next Step 3 formula that is a vanilla flavored formula since we once in a blue moon flavor our milk at daycare for a special treat for a birthday party, and she doesn't want DCG feeling left out now that she knows she has different milk than the rest.

Has anyone else had any experience with toddler formulas? Mom has said that the doctor may think she's a crazy parent if she suggests to them that the reason her daughter is advanced is because of the extra nutrients and vitamins DCG receives from the toddler formula. I think she could be onto something.
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