Making your own formula from scratch

[Anonymous]

A friend did that. Personally, I breastfed, but I don't see why commercial formula would be any better than homemade. I'd rather know what was going into my baby. Her pediatrician approved her recipe btw and the "baby" is now a healthy 4 year old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend did that. Personally, I breastfed, but I don't see why commercial formula would be any better than homemade. I'd rather know what was going into my baby. Her pediatrician approved her recipe btw and the "baby" is now a healthy 4 year old.

Which is more tightly regulated in the US -- infant formula, or dietary supplements?

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/InfantFormula/default.htm
http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad idea as you cannot replicate everything in real formula or breastmilk

True enough. You can't replicate the toxic amounts of flame retardants and other endocrine disrupters in your breast milk.

Ok so we are stuck with pesticide residues from the cow liver supplements or Salmonella from the raw egg yolk. Sounds much better!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG, my neighbor did this and I thought she was one of the only crazy ones. I don't know the exact formula, but it involved her driving out of the city to some farm to buy raw goat's milk and then combining that with a bunch of other things including chicken liver. She was convinced that her son had un-diagnosable allergies or insensitivities. She also takes him to a chiropractor and a homeopath. He's 20 months.

Chiropractor? What for??

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty militant about processed food, but even I wouldn't do this. There was a point when I thought breastfeeding was failing and I cringed at the ingredients to formula (whey protein, safflower or soybean oil), but absolutely yes I woudl have fed it to my newborn over some hippie concoction I could dream up (and believe me, I could dream it up).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, my neighbor did this and I thought she was one of the only crazy ones. I don't know the exact formula, but it involved her driving out of the city to some farm to buy raw goat's milk and then combining that with a bunch of other things including chicken liver. She was convinced that her son had un-diagnosable allergies or insensitivities. She also takes him to a chiropractor and a homeopath. He's 20 months.

Chiropractor? What for??

I believe the chiropractor was for un-diagnosed digestive issues that were causing the child discomfort. No other discernible symptoms, but the kid was a picky eater and mom was convinced he had some sort of food allergy or sensitivity. When I (gently) questioned her along the lines of "I didn't know chiropractors are able to treat babies?" she said, "that's what the traditional medical community doesn't want you to know." She knows perfectly well that my husband is a "traditional" doctor. I've avoided any conversations about alternative medicines or child rearing practices after that.

[Anonymous]

Organic Similac contains a high percentage of organicly grown sugar - but that is probably not a healthy ingrediant:



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/19formula.html?_r=0

[Anonymous]

Generations ago? You're making me feel old. I was raised on homemade formula, as was everyone else born in the 1950s. The point wasn't to save money on commercial formula: Enfamil didn't come out until 1959. The reason for specifying corn syrup rather than sugar was so that no one would accidentally replace the sugar with salt, which is toxic to babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Generations ago? You're making me feel old. I was raised on homemade formula, as was everyone else born in the 1950s. The point wasn't to save money on commercial formula: Enfamil didn't come out until 1959. The reason for specifying corn syrup rather than sugar was so that no one would accidentally replace the sugar with salt, which is toxic to babies.

Why are you replying to a poster from 6 years ago?

[Anonymous]

My grandma was fed basically DIY formula due to some issues that they made out of goat's milk. She grew up on a farm.

Let me tell you, my grandma had life long health issues. Every picture, from when she was a kid, she was painfully thin. My mom mentions being worried her mom was dying basically from age 4 on. She was just always sick.

Anecdote isn't data, but given the one person I know who was fed an organic goat milk DIY formula as a baby was super ill her entire life, I don't think it's a great idea.

[Anonymous]

My mother was the first of her five siblings to receive commercial formula. She was from a poor immigrant family and if mother wasn’t producing enough milk (which was fairly common among poor women who worked almost immediately after giving birth) babies were given goats milk. I feel like there was a reason it was goat? All this to say formula was considered a modern, high tech,luxury item not very long ago.

[Anonymous]

Anything but breastmilk is manufactured formula, and if you get it wrong, you could harm or even kill your baby.

WT actual F

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Organic Similac contains a high percentage of organicly grown sugar - but that is probably not a healthy ingrediant:



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/19formula.html?_r=0

Breastmilk contains a high percentage of sugar. Babies need sugar.

[Anonymous]

https://www.newser.com/story/219150/baby-fed-almond-milk-wracked-with-scurvy.html

Babies can get scurvy from incorrectly made formula

[Anonymous]

Don't do this. Babies died because of a lack of quality control before infant formula was standardized.