If you are having a tough time making ends meet in the present economic adventure and trying to feed your baby, there are affordable solutions to the expensive formulas. For thousands of years women breast fed their babies, used another mothers milk , cow or goat milk. It has only been in about the last fifty years that companies and advertisers have convinced new mothers that a powdered formula was the best thing for their babies. It all came about in the same time frame as TV dinners and fast food.
Real whole milk from nature will feed the cells in your baby and create new ones. Natural whole milk and not the elements from synthetic chemicals are best for your baby, if you can not breast feed. Chemicals can cause malfunction of cells. Do you know who makes the formula and where all the ingredients came from? Are you willing to gamble your babys health?
Caritine is an amino acid and a critical nutrient found in whole milk and it is needed for the proper function of the internal organs. Milk proteins are absorbed as high as 80%, by the body. Milk is a great source of Vitimin D and a top source of Riboflavin.
Goats milk is the nearest animals milk to human milk and if you live in an area where it is available, it is the best to use. You may need to pasteurize it, depending on your source and if it is raw unpasteurized milk. It can be frozen, if necessary to keep it fresh over a long period. Check with your local farmers market, your countys agricultural extension service or your local health food store for sources.
Cows milk is good and very cheap compared to formula milk. You should use whole milk for your baby. Your baby needs the milk fats to grow and thrive. A two dollar gallon of milk will provide 64 ounces of formula milk. Canned evaporated milk can be used, if times are very tough and refrigeration is a problem. Remember to dilute it - one can of milk to one can of water.
Adding a little honey to the milk will make it taste great and it also adds a natural antibotic for your babys health. Honey has been used as a medicine since ancient times and it contains enzymes, vitamins, minerals and health benefits.
Baby vitamins recommended by your doctor should be used as a supplement, if you can afford them. Please remember that thousand of years of babies have been raised successfully without them and in many parts of the world, they are still. The past generations were full of strong men and women who have made the world what it is today.
If you do a search on Baby Formula Recipes, there are lots of recipes and suggestions out there to choose from. Do the very best that you can to feed your baby well. Remember that lots of love is just as important as good food. Do not neglect yourself, in these trying times, your baby needs you.
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Author: Judy Jantzen - Freelance writer and published author on a variety of subjects.
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