I heard there was a type of syrup that u can put in ur babys formula... anyone know about it?

Question

my baby is 4 months and has been breastfed from birth and he does not like formula... what to do?

Answer 1

Before commercialized formula became popular, mothers made their own formula: Pet Milk, clear Karo Syrup, water, baby vitamins. Put into glass bottles and then sterilized in a kettle on top of the stove. Is this what you mean?

Answer 2

No, there is no 'flavoring' for baby formula. If your child dislikes formula, just keep breastfeeding.

Answer 3

Sorry, but do NOT listen to MAMA BEAR. DO NOT add honey to his formula. Giving a child honey under the age of 1 can cause botulism. Your son doesn't need anything added to his formula. If your doctor oks it, you can start him on solids, giving it to him a few times a week.  

Answer 4

If he doesn't like formula, why not stick to breastfeeding?

If you cannot continue to nurse regularly, pump, and bottle feed him your expressed breastmilk.

Answer 5

the only syrup you can add to the formula is Karo Syrup...but thats not for the flavoring, its for when your baby has constipation.

Answer 6

I've heard theories of cough syrup in formula, but that just seems really cruel.

I can't blame her for not liking artificial formula in an cold bottle over all-natural milk that comes from nice warm Mommy. If you feel as though you must bottle feed, pump your milk. It's much, much better than formula.

Answer 7

If you want your baby to like the formula and gain weight in a healthy manner, add a teaspoon of wild honey to the formula.

My daughter had problems keeping it down and was losing weight so my husband tried this and it worked great!

Answer 8

Karo syrup (corn syrup) is commonly added to formula to "cure" constipation.  But its a botulism risk, extremely bad for teeth and bad for health overall.

Formula tastes like c**p, seriously I can't even stand the smell of it.

http://mayoclinic.com/health/infant-botu...

Botulism spores may also be found in low-acid home-canned foods and corn syrup. For this reason, you should avoid feeding these foods to infants.

http://askdrsears.com/html/0/T000100.asp

Sweetened with corn syrup. The rationale for replacing lactose in the milk with corn syrup  is to get it to taste sweeter. In our opinion, using corn syrup as the prime milk-carbohydrate source in an infant under a year is nutritionally unwise. Besides insuring proper nutrition, one of the main goals in feeding an infant over six months is to shape young tastes toward the normal taste of fresh foods. Corn syrup is a sweetener and certainly shouldn't be part of a food babies eat several times each day. Our conclusion: we do not recommend follow-up formulas that contain corn syrup. They are nutritionally unwise and unnecessary. Better to give your baby a higher volume of standard formula (growing babies need more fluid anyway), plus calcium and iron-containing solid foods.

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Enfamil now advertises "no table sugar" in their soy formula, Prosobee, so they use corn syrup instead of sucrose. Does this make a big difference? Some nutritionists might prefer plain old table sugar to corn syrup. Corn itself is an allergen, and corn syrup is very sweet.

http://www.prematureoptimism.com/linkBlo...

http://www.aapd.org/upload/articles-old/...

    Parents should avoid combining milk or milk formulas with other food products or sugar.56 Additionally, those infant formulas that contain sucrose instead of lactose may be particularly cariogenic.