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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HIPP is a great formula for mostly breastfed babies, OP.  Don’t believe the propaganda.  All three of my breastfed babies happily took the formula when needed.

You have to get your baby’s weight up.  That trumps any and all of your desires.  [/quote]

OP here. I don’t feel comfortable with imported formula with the pandemic. I have no clue how it’s stored and if anything will be contaminated. [/quote]
Oh FFS! This isn’t about you. It’s about the baby. You should probably also be checked for post party I’m depression bc you’re not thinking straight. That or you are incredibly sleep deprived bc you are feeding every 2 hours around the clock. That also is t good for the baby bc he’s not getting bouts of deep sleep. [/quote]

Many pediatricians and experts have said to avoid imported formula. [/quote]

Where are American formulas made?  Most Overseas. [/quote]

Most of them are made at the same factory in Vermont. Do some research.

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No, they really are not mostly made in Vermont!!!  :lol:

And the ingredients are almost always made and shipped from overseas.  [/quote]

Store brand formulas are manufactured by Perrigo, whose manufacturing plant is in Vermont. They also make Bobbie formula, which has been mentioned on this thread.

Anyway, the argument that American formulas are manufactured overseas and therefore are just as safe as European formulas is silly. European formulas are perfectly safe for infants - European babies are not malnourished. OP is just coming up with straw arguments because she is too selfish to put aside her own desires and parent the child she has, not the child she wanted.

A PP who brought up what happens in developing nations if a mother’s milk supply is low (and doesn’t have access to formula and clean water) was absolutely right. Those babies are malnourished at best, dead at worst.

This “breast is best” nonsense is terrible. My SIL (much older than me - my nephew is early 30s) told me how for the first 6 weeks of my nephew’s life she tried everything she could to breastfeed. At his 6 week appointment my nephew had barely regained his birth weight. The pediatrician told her “Give that baby a bottle”. And she did, and he thrived.[b]  That would NEVER happen now. Women are encouraged to pursue breastfeeding at all costs, and it’s sad[/b]. At least OPs pediatrician has told her to supplement.

OP - listen to the pediatrician. If your baby ends up with a failure to thrive diagnosis, it will be no one’s fault but yours, and you will have to live with that. [/quote]

You have no idea what you are talking about. I wonder if you even have kids let alone any that are under the age of, say, 10. This is narrative that you convinced yourself exists. When DD was 6 days old, she was struggling to nurse. Her weight was dropping. My super pro-breastfeeding pediatrician said she needed nutrition now and to give formula and try triple feeding. After nursing, give the baby either formula or what I could pump. She had me come back for a weight check in two days.

This is the norm. Yes, breastfeeding is strongly encouraged, but never at the cost of the baby or mother’s well-being. [/quote]

NP. I have a 5 year old. Here's what I went through when she was born:

- hospital was "baby friendly" and actively discouraged me from formula. 
- when I was concerned DD wasn't gaining enough at her 1 month appointment, and I was struggling mentally because she nursed ALL DAY LONG (because my supply sucks), I was told to just keep trying. I asked for formula samples and they very reluctantly gave them to me, made it very clear they weren't happy about it.
- at my six week PP checkup, I asked my midwife what she thought of DD because to me, it was very obvious she was not gaining enough weight. She looked like a skeleton. Midwife said she was fine, BF babies are just lighter.
- at DD's 2 month checkup, she was in the first percentile for weight. First. She was practically the same weight as she was at birth. I was severely depressed from BFing, cried the entire appointment for feeling like a failure, and they *still* pushed me to BF and use only what formula was absolutely necessary.
- I gave up BFing permanently after that appointment and did solely formula. I got so much shit from people, even strangers would ask if I was BFing and give me horrified looks and exclaim "why not??" when I said no.
- all of the communities for mothers I was in while pregnant/postpartum went on and on about the benefits of BFing. It's "natural", my kid's teeth will end up crooked if I don't, it's "liquid gold", moms sacrifice their own comfort for their children, blah blah blah.
- my H kept pushing me to BF even as he saw my mental and physical health decline. When your wife is sobbing and having panic attacks every time the baby wakes up because it means she'll have to BF, no, you don't push her to keep doing it.[/quote]

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