Re: OT - feeding issues - formula

[Guest guest]

DHA and ARA are " fats " I believe that naturally occur in breast milk

and help a babies eyes and brain develop. Formula companies have

added these to their brands for babies who are only formula fed so

they get them. I would think as long as you are breastfeeding and

just supplementing with formula the non-DHA & ARA brand should be

just fine because the baby is already getting it from your

breastmilk.

June

>

> I've been breastfeeding Sammy but recently have started

supplementing

> w/ formula. Had lots of projectile spit up w/ Enfamil and Similac

so

> I switched to Good Start which is what we used the whole time w/

> Jenna. I'm just wondering, I notice now (it wasn't this way a

couple

> years ago) that all the " top of the line " formulas have added DHA

and

> ARA which is supposed to be good for baby's eye and brain

development.

> There's basic " Good Start Supreme " and then there's " Good Start

> Supreme w/ DHA and ARA " -- does anyone know how important these two

> new things are and should I feel guilty for going w/ the cheaper of

> the two? I used the regular w/ Jenna and she's just fine, but

don't

> you always feel bad if you don't use the " best " thing (whatever

that

> may be this year)??

>

>

[Guest guest]

When I stopped BFing Zoe we used the DHA RHA for one can and then I

switched to the regular. We used it for Rachael and she is a brainy

little five year old.

Louisa

>

> I've been breastfeeding Sammy but recently have started

supplementing

> w/ formula. Had lots of projectile spit up w/ Enfamil and Similac

so

> I switched to Good Start which is what we used the whole time w/

> Jenna. I'm just wondering, I notice now (it wasn't this way a

couple

> years ago) that all the " top of the line " formulas have added DHA

and

> ARA which is supposed to be good for baby's eye and brain

development.

> There's basic " Good Start Supreme " and then there's " Good Start

> Supreme w/ DHA and ARA " -- does anyone know how important these two

> new things are and should I feel guilty for going w/ the cheaper of

> the two? I used the regular w/ Jenna and she's just fine, but don't

> you always feel bad if you don't use the " best " thing (whatever that

> may be this year)??

>

>

[Guest guest]

There was a time when mothers were encouraged to use formula and not to bf ...

our parents, in fact. Early on in that time, they did not even make " formula " ,

you used cow's milk and mixed in Karo syrup (my mom still has the recipe from

when my brother was born in '67) Those children all grew up just fine without

DHA/ARA. So did all the formula fed babies up until 2 years ago.

Honestly, while I am sure these things are good for the babies, I think it is

just a marketing thing to try to get back some revenue lost when doctors began

recommending bf again. Not much different than the baby bags they give out at

the hospital from enfamil/similac that have all this " breastfeeding is best "

info, as well as a couple cans of formula. Personally, I think the underlying

thing with that is to make it easy for someone to give up breastfeeding if it is

a bit hard at first (lord knows it can be!) by making sure the parents have

formula handy right from the go.

Just my 2 cents

Angel

OT - feeding issues - formula

I've been breastfeeding Sammy but recently have started supplementing

w/ formula. Had lots of projectile spit up w/ Enfamil and Similac so

I switched to Good Start which is what we used the whole time w/

Jenna. I'm just wondering, I notice now (it wasn't this way a couple

years ago) that all the " top of the line " formulas have added DHA and

ARA which is supposed to be good for baby's eye and brain development.

There's basic " Good Start Supreme " and then there's " Good Start

Supreme w/ DHA and ARA " -- does anyone know how important these two

new things are and should I feel guilty for going w/ the cheaper of

the two? I used the regular w/ Jenna and she's just fine, but don't

you always feel bad if you don't use the " best " thing (whatever that

may be this year)??

[Guest guest]

I'm with you - I think it's wrong for hospitals to give away formula, because it

is too easy to quit bf'ing if that is handy. Why not add a breast pump to the

bag too? Make it fair. I am one to keep stuff like that (forumula) for an

emergency - but my dh was so obcessed with that can in the cupboard it's like he

kept finding excuses to want to use it until one day it *disappeared*. I

honestly thought he wanted me to stop bf'ing and we had a fight (I didn't want

to quit despite issues with it). He didn't want me to stop nursing, he just

thought it would be so much *easier* to bottle feed instead. The two problems

were 1) Evy was tongue tied and had trouble nursing, and 2) dh was sneaking

him bottles so he had serious nipple confusion and didn't want to nurse!

Rrrggghhh! After I got rid of the formula and bottles things got a little

easier and once his tongue was clipped it was smooth sailing.

s.

OT - feeding issues - formula

I've been breastfeeding Sammy but recently have started supplementing

w/ formula. Had lots of projectile spit up w/ Enfamil and Similac so

I switched to Good Start which is what we used the whole time w/

Jenna. I'm just wondering, I notice now (it wasn't this way a couple

years ago) that all the " top of the line " formulas have added DHA and

ARA which is supposed to be good for baby's eye and brain development.

There's basic " Good Start Supreme " and then there's " Good Start

Supreme w/ DHA and ARA " -- does anyone know how important these two

new things are and should I feel guilty for going w/ the cheaper of

the two? I used the regular w/ Jenna and she's just fine, but don't

you always feel bad if you don't use the " best " thing (whatever that

may be this year)??

[Guest guest]

Angel,

I totally agree. Thanks for the input!

> There was a time when mothers were encouraged to use formula and not

to bf ... our parents, in fact. Early on in that time, they did not

even make " formula " , you used cow's milk and mixed in Karo syrup (my

mom still has the recipe from when my brother was born in '67) Those

children all grew up just fine without DHA/ARA. So did all the

formula fed babies up until 2 years ago.

>

> Honestly, while I am sure these things are good for the babies, I

think it is just a marketing thing to try to get back some revenue

lost when doctors began recommending bf again. Not much different

than the baby bags they give out at the hospital from enfamil/similac

that have all this " breastfeeding is best " info, as well as a couple

cans of formula. Personally, I think the underlying thing with that

is to make it easy for someone to give up breastfeeding if it is a bit

hard at first (lord knows it can be!) by making sure the parents have

formula handy right from the go.

>

> Just my 2 cents

>

> Angel

> OT - feeding issues - formula

>

>

>

> I've been breastfeeding Sammy but recently have started supplementing

> w/ formula. Had lots of projectile spit up w/ Enfamil and Similac so

> I switched to Good Start which is what we used the whole time w/

> Jenna. I'm just wondering, I notice now (it wasn't this way a couple

> years ago) that all the " top of the line " formulas have added DHA and

> ARA which is supposed to be good for baby's eye and brain development.

> There's basic " Good Start Supreme " and then there's " Good Start

> Supreme w/ DHA and ARA " -- does anyone know how important these two

> new things are and should I feel guilty for going w/ the cheaper of

> the two? I used the regular w/ Jenna and she's just fine, but don't

> you always feel bad if you don't use the " best " thing (whatever that

> may be this year)??

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi , this is so funny I have been going back and forth about

the very same issue for about a week now. My son who is 14 weeks old

started out breastfeeding for about a day, but he was in the NICU and

they said he would go home sooner if he gained weight which formula

would do that quicker so I started him on Isomil. I could not

breastfeed for ANYTHING so that was ok by me... Well he got home and

had some eczema and some stomach aches so the doc told me he could be

allergic and go to the Numtramagin, which is triple the cost of

normal formula so I did that for about a month and he was not gaining

weight like I knew he should because his stools were so loose and

numerous so I swithched him back to isomil and he gained 3 lbs the

first week,,,but after going to the store I also noticed the pretty

gold lettering on the isomil advance for the ADVANCED formula which

is at least a 1.50 more a can for concentrated which when you think

about it adds at least 30 dollars more a month to formula, but all my

kids drank the regular isomil and did fine so after feeling guilty as

heck I decided to just to go to the regular isomil. There are some

differences when you compare ingredients like more corn syrup and

coconut oil but I really don't see a nutitional difference. Plus like

the other posts said it is all about the money, everything else has

gone up in price so they had to come up with a new better formula to

keep money in their pockets and what better way then to have a new

mother question herself over what formula to buy....Hey what is that

recipe for cow milk and corn syrup????LOL

Corrina

Mom to Gabe rcf dbb 23/7 14 weeks old

> > There was a time when mothers were encouraged to use formula and

not

> to bf ... our parents, in fact. Early on in that time, they did not

> even make " formula " , you used cow's milk and mixed in Karo syrup (my

> mom still has the recipe from when my brother was born in '67)

Those

> children all grew up just fine without DHA/ARA. So did all the

> formula fed babies up until 2 years ago.

> >

> > Honestly, while I am sure these things are good for the babies, I

> think it is just a marketing thing to try to get back some revenue

> lost when doctors began recommending bf again. Not much different

> than the baby bags they give out at the hospital from

enfamil/similac

> that have all this " breastfeeding is best " info, as well as a couple

> cans of formula. Personally, I think the underlying thing with that

> is to make it easy for someone to give up breastfeeding if it is a

bit

> hard at first (lord knows it can be!) by making sure the parents

have

> formula handy right from the go.

> >

> > Just my 2 cents

> >

> > Angel

> > OT - feeding issues - formula

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> >

> >

> > I've been breastfeeding Sammy but recently have started

supplementing

> > w/ formula. Had lots of projectile spit up w/ Enfamil and

Similac so

> > I switched to Good Start which is what we used the whole time w/

> > Jenna. I'm just wondering, I notice now (it wasn't this way a

couple

> > years ago) that all the " top of the line " formulas have added DHA

and

> > ARA which is supposed to be good for baby's eye and brain

development.

> > There's basic " Good Start Supreme " and then there's " Good Start

> > Supreme w/ DHA and ARA " -- does anyone know how important these

two

> > new things are and should I feel guilty for going w/ the cheaper

of

> > the two? I used the regular w/ Jenna and she's just fine, but

don't

> > you always feel bad if you don't use the " best " thing (whatever

that

> > may be this year)??

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