Ready to Feed Formula

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either one is just powdered fructose sugar. Not healthy.

Have there been any advancements in recent years for healthy alternatives? Or are they all still bad?

Breastmilk is mostly water and sugar. So, formula designed to replicate breastmilk will always be mostly water and sugar. That is a feature not a bug.

There are some subtle advantages to breastmilk, especially early on. There are significant advantages to breastmilk for some populations like micropreemies, or people without consistent access to clean water, and significant advantages for formula for some populations like infants with galactosemia, and adoptive families. But for the vast majority of families, both are good safe choices.

"All sugar is the same!" ..... yeah, no.

So what do you think women should do if they can’t breastfeed for some reason? You’re an idiot and what you’re saying is very harmful and hurtful. And not true. Do some research instead of listening to rfk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Either one is just powdered fructose sugar. Not healthy.

Have there been any advancements in recent years for healthy alternatives? Or are they all still bad?

Please go away. Formula literally saves lives.

Yes, formula manufacturers engaged in egregious practices in developing countries, convincing women without access to clean water to FF rather than BF. For those of us who could not produce enough milk or whose babies could not nurse properly, formula is a miracle.

[Anonymous]

Our baby actually had a prescription for ready to feed Alimentum so insurance would pay for some of it. She wouldn’t stop spitting up from the powder version. The powder contained Corn maltodextrin and the RTF did not and they thought she might be allergic to corn. She never spit up on the RTF version.

[Anonymous]

I only used it because Alimentum was the only formula mine would take, and during the shortage I could only find it in RTF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either one is just powdered fructose sugar. Not healthy.

Have there been any advancements in recent years for healthy alternatives? Or are they all still bad?

For those of us who could not produce enough milk or whose babies could not nurse properly, formula is a miracle.

Well yeah, if you cannot supply as Nature intended, then you pretty much have no choice. Nobody has said any different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than the price, is there any downside to using RTF formula instead of the powder? I find it so convenient and I read it’s sterile compared to the powder. I guess you pay for the convenience? Anyone else exclusively use RTF past the newborn phase?

I did. It was just easier. The bottles were great on the go too!