And I particularly like this line: “Doctors say that parents need not worry about the precise composition of formula, because the product over all has been proved safe and effective.”
First- HAHAHAHAHA- add this to your Dr. Joke series
Second- which doctors? I love their meticulous referencing.

We were sent home from the hospital with instructions to “fortify” my milk (which I was pumping for my preemie-baby) with formula to “support” her growth. After two weeks of dealing with the gassiness, fussiness, and overall miserable-ness that she was suffering through, it hit me that those problems only happened after she ate the “fortified” milk. When she took it straight from me, she was peaceful. We stopped fortifying, she started sleeping, and our whole world improved. And, big surprise, she’s gaining weight at EXACTLY the same rate as before. (Probably because she’s not throwing her food up as much!)

-Rachele
www.lilaguide.com/groups/BosomBuddies

Two words. Poor Baby!

My daughter was born in Nov 2006 and is ’still’ breastfed.

I agree with wiffersnapper.

A woman recently posted on a message board I visit, because she was ‘worried’ about her 19 month old who is now mostly eating processed foods and refusing home-made stuff (which apparently she was weaned on), yet the toddler was fed formula from birth.
Talk about crazy, the most over-processed, junk filled ‘food’ you can give and the baby had it from birth! Don’t think I’d be worried about tins of beans and shop bought fish fingers at 19 months!

Rubbish, lack of support or lack of commitment, dressed up.

How infuriating.

Side note- A company called, “Yogi Tea” makes a nursing tea for supporting or increasing lactation, and WOW, it really works!

this sounds to me like adults actually tasted that crap. that makes me giggle.

It would be interesting for someone to study the relationship between antidepressants and diabetes in children as well. Antidepressants cause diabetes just not quite as quickly as Zyprexa. With all the moms taking them during pregnancy and all the kids being put on drugs (believe it or not, they have been actually giving babies these drugs) as well as all the moms being told to breastfeed on drugs it won’t be long before we see similar rates of diabetes in breastfed and formula fed kids. (Did anyone read Growing up Bipolar in newsweek? They said that the boy showed signs of bipolar as a baby because he couldn’t sleep and would bang his head against his crib. Then they put him on drugs by the time he was 2 and he has been on 38 different drugs now at the age of 10..)

I think there is more to the diabetes story than most people realize - it’s constantly blamed on diet and formula yet it makes no sense - didn’t we have more moms feeding their kids formula in the 50s than we do now? Back then it wasn’t even a “good” recipe. Although I suppose kids played outside more and Monsanto hadn’t sabotaged our food back then. Oh, and the food at school probably was better and they hadn’t cut out PE yet.

Seems like with 1/5 of the nutrition in the average food compared to organic as well as toxic ingredients in our foods, people will instinctively eat more to try to get the nutrients they need.

also, the whole “organic formula” thing reminds me of a post on “stuff white people like” where “white people” would rather eat organic rat poison (”cause it’s organic!!!!111!!) than a hungry man frozen dinner.

“Amy” said sugar is a concern for them - she MIGHT re-consider her formula choice.

I don’t get it.

How, how, how, can people have put so much thought into some things for baby but totally ignore, deny, look the other way about breastfeeding?

How, how, how, can WE help get breastfeeding back into mainstream American culture, to reach everyone? How can we get “Amy” to condsider breastfeeding her next baby instead?

Anyway, I’ve also heard that the “organic” formula isn’t really organic at all! They by law HAVE to add chemicals (vitamins) that are made in a lab, and therefore are NOT organic!