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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I should add that for a 3 to 12 month old, WIC covers 28 oz a day, which is 3 1/2 8 oz bottles.  or 4 2/3 6 oz bottles.  The recommendation for a 6 month old who isn't getting significant calories from other foods is a 6 - 8 oz bottle approximately every 4 hours, or about 6 bottles a day.  Even if a baby sleeps through one feeding, and takes a relatively small amount at each feeding, they'll eat more than 28 oz.[/quote]

OP here - wow. I had no idea wic didn't cover all the formula you need . Is it meant to be only a supplement for needy families? Or do they really think all babies only drink 28 ounces a day?

In any case, I just met this woman - friend of friend.  There was no identified fat in the formula she was extolling, but plenty of strange supplements. Baby seemed very small for age. I just thought it was weird... I have heard of the evaporated milk - karo syrup formula, but this seemed so off the wall that I wanted to run it through a dcum test...[/quote]

Here is what WIC covers for infants:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/Snapshot-WIC-InfantFoodPkgs.pdf

Notice also that fully breast-fed infants aged 6-11 months get 256 ounces of baby food fruit and vegetables and 77.5 ounces of baby food meat, while partially breast-fed infants and fully formula-fed infants get 125 ounces of baby food fruit and vegetables and 0 ounces of baby food meat. This may be supposed to be an incentive to women to breastfeed. I think it's shocking and appalling.

(Nonetheless, given the cost of coconut "milk" and almond "milk", I think it's unlikely that the friend of a friend is feeding her infant coconuts and almonds because WIC doesn't cover enough formula.)[/quote]

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