Re: melamine in formula--what's a mother to do?

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We adopted a baby 3 years ago and I fed him strictly homemade formula from Nourishing traditions. He is almost 4 and knows his ABC, colors, can count and is reading word...he's very bright and healthy!!

Hello,Our family has been drinking raw milk and consuming other raw dairy for about a year. My almost 9-month-old is currently drinking 25 to 30 oz of formula a day. (She was breast-fed for seven months and then started sleeping too much to maintain my milk supply.) The melamine they've been finding in formula has me a little freaked out. I know that babies aren't supposed to drink cow's milk until the age of 12 months, but is there any reason we can't make the switch now? I know where my cow's milk comes from but I have no earthly idea where my formula comes from. Scary.

Any advice and/or information would be greatly appreciated.Best wishes,

-- Warmly, Verderaime RVT,RN,DHerbwww.mtairyfolkmedicinecenter.comThe whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead.

" I've seen the village, and I don't want it raising my child. " Autumn Burke " No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human

spirit. " Helen Keller

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how about making your own formula with raw milk?

http://www.westonaprice.org/children/recipes.html

this group has moms who are doing it successfully

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/newwaphb/

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> Hello,

>

> Our family has been drinking raw milk and consuming other raw dairy for

> about a year. My almost 9-month-old is currently drinking 25 to 30 oz of

> formula a day. (She was breast-fed for seven months and then started

> sleeping too much to maintain my milk supply.) The melamine they've been

> finding in formula has me a little freaked out. I know that babies aren't

> supposed to drink cow's milk until the age of 12 months, but is there any

> reason we can't make the switch now? I know where my cow's milk comes from

> but I have no earthly idea where my formula comes from. Scary.

>

> Any advice and/or information would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Best wishes,

>

>

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My great nephew couldn't drink formula at all. He tossed it everytime. He's been on a homemade formula made with milk from my goats since he was four weeks old. I have been pasteurizing that milk simply because I'd rather err on the side of caution when it comes to babies that young. Just my choice. His mother has been adding a little bit of raw milk kefir to his milk all this time. He just turned a year old and since he's been slowly building immunities he's going on raw milk full time. He's healthy as a horse. My great-neice, who I babysit regularly, was on formula as an infant. As soon as she could suck through a straw at 8 months of age she was given 'smoothies' made with kefir and my homemade yogurt. She's been drinking raw milk at my house for the past 1 1/2 years and in her whole life she's

had one ear infection. That was when she was a year old and the reason I decided it was time she go on raw milk. She hasn't been sick since. She thinks it's particularly funny when I squirt milk from the teat into her mouth.

Sherry

n NC

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my son couldnt stomach the baby formulas so my mid wife said put him

on cows milk. hes been drinking it ever since he was 2 months old.

and not a problem in the world. and is smart as a whip.

elizabeth fl

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> > Hello,

> >

> > Our family has been drinking raw milk and consuming other raw

dairy for

> > about a year. My almost 9-month-old is currently drinking 25 to

30 oz of

> > formula a day. (She was breast-fed for seven months and then

started

> > sleeping too much to maintain my milk supply.) The melamine

they've been

> > finding in formula has me a little freaked out. I know that

babies aren't

> > supposed to drink cow's milk until the age of 12 months, but is

there any

> > reason we can't make the switch now? I know where my cow's milk

comes from

> > but I have no earthly idea where my formula comes from. Scary.

> >

> > Any advice and/or information would be greatly appreciated.

> >

> > Best wishes,

> >

> >

> >

>

>

>

> --

> Warmly, Verderaime RVT,RN,DHerb

> www.mtairyfolkmedicinecenter.com

>

> The whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead.

>

> " I've seen the village, and I don't want it raising my child. "

> Autumn Burke

>

> " No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to

an

> uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human

> spirit. " Helen Keller

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