Watering down Soya Milk (night feeds 13 month old)

[Dixiechick17]

My DD had just started to sleep through, then she got Chickenpox, followed by cutting a top tooth. Since she recovered she has been waking multiple times through the night and will not settle back down without milk. Scream cries until we give her a bottle. I don't know whether it's teething related (second top tooth possibly going to cut soon) or whether it's habit or comfort. I wanted to try watering down her milk during the night to see if she would lose Interest, but didn't know if it is ok to water down normal soya milk? Or if I should just assume teething and ride it out? She's a late teether, so not much experience with this.

[CoteDAzur]

RedLarva - re "Cote has it wrong again re dairy/soya."

Let's see. I said two things:

(1) High consumption of soy products is linked to early puberty in girls. See here, here, and here.

(2) It's linked to breast development in children ("premature thelarche"). See here, but especially in this study, where you will read:

Phytoestrogen exposure and sexual development in children
... the most extensive exposure to phytoestrogens occurs via soy-based formula feeding (35). A few studies have investigated the relationship between phytoestrogen exposure and sexual development in children, and an association was mainly reported in girls (Table 2). Neonatal consumption of soy-based formula was independently associated with premature thelarche in Puerto Rican girls (36). Zung et al. (37) also reported that premature thelarche was more prevalent among soy formula-fed infants. In addition, the estrogenic activity of soy-based formula in infants involves vaginal cell maturation (38).

I'm sorry that none of my links are from such unbiased, scientifically sound sources such as "White Lies" and "One Green Planet", but not everyone can be as academically rigorous as yourself