Foreign buy-up hits baby formula supply

[Neferti]

Just think by the time the child is 6 months old you can feed her pasteurised milk, straight from the fridge. Then at a year she will be eating a real family meal of pizza, Maccas and roast chicken and baked spuds on Sunday. LOL

[mellie]

Just think by the time the child is 6 months old you can feed her pasteurised milk, straight from the fridge. Then at a year she will be eating a real family meal of pizza, Maccas and roast chicken and baked spuds on Sunday. LOL

No, it's 12 months now Nef.

They change the rules all the time, it was 9 months when my eldest two were little.

At 6 months, they go onto a follow-on formula, which is step 2, step 3 is toddler.



But this said, they will probably change their minds again soon enough.

[Neferti]

Just think by the time the child is 6 months old you can feed her pasteurised milk, straight from the fridge. Then at a year she will be eating a real family meal of pizza, Maccas and roast chicken and baked spuds on Sunday. LOL

No, it's 12 months now Nef.

They change the rules all the time, it was 9 months when my eldest two were little.

At 6 months, they go onto a follow-on formula, which is step 2, step 3 is toddler.

Really? No wonder there are so many kids out there with "behavioural" and "allergic" problems. I tried mine on things like nuts, strawberries, eggs, chocolate, etc .... not at the same time, obviously ... to see whether they got a rash or not BEFORE they were 6 months old. These days they keep kids in cotton wool. No wonder they are all sick with allergies.

[mellie]

Just think by the time the child is 6 months old you can feed her pasteurised milk, straight from the fridge. Then at a year she will be eating a real family meal of pizza, Maccas and roast chicken and baked spuds on Sunday. LOL

No, it's 12 months now Nef.

They change the rules all the time, it was 9 months when my eldest two were little.

At 6 months, they go onto a follow-on formula, which is step 2, step 3 is toddler.

Really? No wonder there are so many kids out there with "behavioural" and "allergic" problems. I tried mine on things like nuts, strawberries, eggs, chocolate, etc .... not at the same time, obviously ... to see whether they got a rash or not. These days they keep kids in cotton wool. No wonder they are all sick with allergies.

You make a good point Nef, especially in light of the "novel" ingredients they stuff in premium formulas these days for marketing purposes, ie DHA/ARA aka omega 3 and 6 (extracted from algae and fungus with a solvent called Hexane).

Basically, the longer they are on these chemically derived formulas, the more exposure to harmful additives.

It might be more beneficial putting her on organic cows milk at 6 months, and fortifying her diet with an organic vitamin and mineral supplement in light of the situation.

When you think about it, the advice to keep them on a follow-on (step 2) formula after 6 months is probably sponsored by the very companies who make the stuff.

[Black Orchid]

People of my parents generation are living well into their 90s and beyond. No tinned forumla for them.

Yet ones of my generation who have often been brought up on formula and baby food are dropping like flies from cancer and the like.

I know many cannot breastfeed and the availability of 'wet nurses' nowadays is slim but there must be better alternatives to rearing a baby without it being processed and delivered in a tin.

Why do people depend on baby food that they buy from the supermarket/chemist? Convenience?

[mantra]

Why do people depend on baby food that they buy from the supermarket/chemist? Convenience?

How inconvenient is it to steam a few vegetables, but it seems a lot of mothers prefer their babies to eat the foul taste of tinned baby food. Even worse still are the recent reports of mothers introducing solids in the way of Mcdonalds - a greasy, salty chip or a piece of sugary bun for their first taste of food. It's no surprise the kids these days have so many diseases.

From memory it's always been 12 months before the switch to cow's milk, but solids are supposed to be introduced at 16 weeks by introducing farax - another disgusting product. Pureed vegetables are nourishing, cheaper and actually more convenient than buying a packet of shredded cardboard.

[Neferti]

Why do people depend on baby food that they buy from the supermarket/chemist? Convenience?

How inconvenient is it to steam a few vegetables, but it seems a lot of mothers prefer their babies to eat the foul taste of tinned baby food. Even worse still are the recent reports of mothers introducing solids in the way of Mcdonalds - a greasy, salty chip or a piece of sugary bun for their first taste of food. It's no surprise the kids these days have so many diseases.

From memory it's always been 12 months before the switch to cow's milk, but solids are supposed to be introduced at 16 weeks by introducing farax - another disgusting product. Pureed vegetables are nourishing, cheaper and actually more convenient than buying a packet of shredded cardboard.

My sisters told me to switch to cow's milk before Summer. It was delivered to the home in those days. I did so when my baby was 7 months old. She didn't care, sort of looked at me and said " what's this?" ... carried on. No problem.

Remember it was my first child and my sister had a 3rd one around the same time so, I got the "why are you doing that?" stuff.

All turned out OK. No allergies. No mental problems.