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The moral to this story for those who haven't finished their families is obviously to breast feed. I nursed my first 2.5 years. It was embarrassing, actually, but I didn't know how to wean her since she showed reactions to my reactions to dairy! My younger one I nursed 14 months. I'm so glad I did.... Always have been - but then we didn't have these substitutes so readily available and I wasn't going to wean them onto cows milk which was for huge animals and not humans! I have a niece who has always refused to see the correlation between feeding their kids milk and early on (due to the cost). They were always congested and sick. One ear infection after another. O types aren't supposed to do well with soy so I am not big on it. I bought some chocolate soy milk cause it was cheap recently for my little wake up in the morning and I've had gas from it - and bloating. I don't think I'll buy it anymore for my daughters sake now either. Thanks! Once we took her to the ER cause she was in so much pain and we finally realized it was from the health food bars that were high in soy. I'd had appendicitis (maybe also partly due to this??) so was leery of that happening with her, too, but had just read then that soy caused gas..... (And when we cut them out it never happened again). I have to experiment again when I forget... I like almond milk now - or rice milk.