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BABY'S BEST CHANCE 
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Maybe this formula shortage will persuade new mothers to breast feed their babies like Nature intended......I don't know why so many don't.....
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Maybe they will resort to also making their own formula once the child had been weened off the breast. I was raised on cows milk after breast feeding stopped.
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Maybe they will resort to also making their own formula once the child had been weened off the breast. I was raised on cows milk after breast feeding stopped.
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My first I couldn't do, I was sick and taking meds. Gave him formula and he had issues with it. I got a new Pediatrician and made him Adele Davis formula, his doctor said it was what was made before the formula came out. My second one was breast feed
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Being a Sodomite puts me on the "fringe" of the debate, however, my mom was a doctor ... along the way I picked up that breast milk gives additional "immunity thingies" that not in the formulas.
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Yes, breast is best, but not everyone could or wanted to breast feed. Our doctor gave us a recipe for formula with Pet canned milk, boiled or distilled water, and Karo syrup, to be adjusted to the baby's stools. It was put in sterilized bottles and stored in the refrigerator. One of my nephews was actually sent home on 2% milk, and he did fine. My little brother did not thrive on my mother's milk, and the formula gave him really bad diarrhea. Our neighbor milked goats and suggested they try some of it for him. The diarrhea stopped and he did quite well. And then along came the processed canned and powdered formula that was so much easier, but was it really all that much better than what we made? And of course it was not better than good healthy breast milk. Now, as parents scramble to find formula, and at what price, I just shake my head at the people who warn them to not try to make their own! Unless a child has an allergy or problem with it, the home made formula would be fine until they can once again find the formula of their choice. And then I wonder....... could there be a correlation between all the childhood allergies, autism, ADHD, etc. to the processed formulas and baby foods that are fed to our children from birth? Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Yes, breast is best, but not everyone could or wanted to breast feed. Our doctor gave us a recipe for formula with Pet canned milk, boiled or distilled water, and Karo syrup, to be adjusted to the baby's stools. It was put in sterilized bottles and stored in the refrigerator. One of my nephews was actually sent home on 2% milk, and he did fine. My little brother did not thrive on my mother's milk, and the formula gave him really bad diarrhea. Our neighbor milked goats and suggested they try some of it for him. The diarrhea stopped and he did quite well. And then along came the processed canned and powdered formula that was so much easier, but was it really all that much better than what we made? And of course it was not better than good healthy breast milk. Now, as parents scramble to find formula, and at what price, I just shake my head at the people who warn them to not try to make their own! Unless a child has an allergy or problem with it, the home made formula would be fine until they can once again find the formula of their choice. And then I wonder....... could there be a correlation between all the childhood allergies, autism, ADHD, etc. to the processed formulas and baby foods that are fed to our children from birth? When my first baby was in the hospital waiting for heart surgery, she was not strong enough to nurse successfully and I had to pump and feed her through a tube......for months....I spent every day in that hospital and soon the overworked nurses started asking me to help.....I had become very adept at tube-feeding my baby, so they had me tube feeding other babies......There was a boy in the same room who was very sturdy and healthy except for a severely cleft palate......I started tube feeding him, because the nurses were very frustrated with him.....he was kicking and screaming from hunger....so agitated that it was impossible to keep the tube hooked up.........When I started feeding him, I started massaging his lips and tongue as he received the milk.....and it was like a miracle, he completely relaxed, took all his milk and immediately fell asleep....his usual indigestion disappeared.....the nurses were astonished...... The mother never came to visit him....not once...she was a beauty-queen and was so horrified by the monster she had birthed that she couldn't stand looking at him. The father was a champion boxer and was travelling when the boy was born.....I was there the first time he came.....I was feeding the baby and the dad was so proud of his big strong boy and wanted to try feeding him and I taught him how.......He did great. I was donating breast milk to the hospital by then, pumping several times a day. The nurses told him my story and that his son was getting my milk.......Sometimes when I came back to the ward, that burly boxer was walking my baby......stroking her hair or singing a lullaby.......We never had a conversation, but communicated through caring for each other's babies......One day, there was a beautiful butterfly mobile above her crib that he had given her.....
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My mother never bought formula but mixed her own as taught to her by her grandmother. We all survived. My sister didn't buy formula either. Her youngsters did just fine. I breastfed both my boys which is so much easier but I was always the lazy one. Forget about sterilizing bottles and mixing formula. Just stick a boob in the kid's mouth and voila, the kid gets fed. Abracadabra 
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My mother never bought formula but mixed her own as taught to her by her grandmother. We all survived. My sister didn't buy formula either. Her youngsters did just fine. I breastfed both my boys which is so much easier but I was always the lazy one. Forget about sterilizing bottles and mixing formula. Just stick a boob in the kid's mouth and voila, the kid gets fed.
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