Which is the best? Help!?

Question

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I know that breast milk is best, but in the event... Which is best?

Answer 1

When you choose a formula- buy sample or small sizes of a few different ones and experiment to see which one your baby likes best.  Some make them spit up more and others seem to digest better.  Breast milk is by far the best, but not always possible.

Answer 2

Breastmilk isn't best -breastmilk is normal.  Formula is suboptimal.

There is no way of knowing which formula will cause the fewest side effects in any particular baby, nor is there any way of predicting which will require a recall for serious problems in advance.

http://www.breastfeeding.com/reading_roo...

According to formula manufacturers, a pediatrician should recommend an appropriate brand and type of formula for each particular baby--advice implying that each baby's nutritional needs are unique and that physicians can recognize these special needs upon examination and select a formula accordingly. This is, of course, neither accurate nor possible.

Compositional variance between formulas persists because manufacturers must attempt to simulate a product for which they do not have the recipe - a fact FDA officials recognize in their recent statement that ". . . . the exact chemical makeup of breast milk is still unknown." As Marsha Walker notes, "Formula-fed infants depend on products which can be quite different from each other, but which are continually being found deficient in essential nutrients . . . These nutrients are then added, usually after damage has occurred in infants or overwhelming market pressure forces the issue."

When It Has to be Formula: Optimizing the Health of Your Formula Fed Infant

http://www.naturalfamilyonline.com/BF/20...

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

How Formulas Are Made

Comparison of Formula and Breastmilk

Choosing Formulas

Soy Formula?

Follow-Up Formulas

Comparing Formulas

Lactose-Free Formula

Hypoallergenic Formula

How Much and How Often to Feed

Safe Formula-Feeding Tips

Bottlefeeding Tips

Sterilizing

Choosing Nipples

Switching from Formula to Cow's Milk

Bottlefeeding Questions of the day

EVALUATING THE SAFETY OF NEW INGREDIENTS

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=030...

http://www.bobrow.net/kimberly/birth/BFL...

"The truth is, breastfeeding is nothing more than normal. Artificial feeding, which is neither the same nor superior, is therefore deficient, incomplete, and inferior. These are difficult words, but they have an appropriate place in our vocabulary."

The lactation consultant says, "You have the best chance to provide your baby with the best possible start in life, through the special bond of breastfeeding. The wonderful advantages to you and your baby will last a lifetime." And then the mother bottlefeeds. Why?

In part because that sales pitch could just as easily have come from a commercial baby milk pamphlet. When our phrasing and that of the baby milk industry are interchangeable, one of us is going about it wrong...and it probably isn't the multinationals. Here is some of the language that I think subverts our good intentions every time we use it.

Best possible, ideal, optimal, perfect. Are you the best possible parent? Is your home life ideal? Do you provide optimal meals? Of course not. Those are admirable goals, not minimum standards. Let's rephrase. Is your parenting inadequate? Is your home life subnormal? Do you provide deficient meals? Now it hurts. You may not expect to be far above normal, but you certainly don't want to be below normal.

When we (and the artificial milk manufacturers) say that breastfeeding is the best possible way to feed babies because it provides their ideal food, perfectly balanced for optimal infant nutrition, the logical response is, "So what?" Our own experience tells us that optimal is not necessary. Normal is fine, and implied in this language is the absolute normalcy--and thus safety and adequacy--of artificial feeding. The truth is, breastfeeding is nothing more than normal. Artificial feeding, which is neither the same nor superior, is therefore deficient, incomplete, and inferior. Those are difficult words, but they have an appropriate place in our vocabulary.

Answer 3

Just in case buy the enfimil lipil iron fortified i used lactose free but in the end it was the better formula.

Answer 4

Do yourself a favor and don't buy anything that will tempt you to stray from breastfeeding.  It takes a while to learn how to nurse, and if you have any difficulties, which is normal, and you have bottles and formula, you probably will try them. This will risk your breastfeeding relationship.  

Answer 5

I've only tried 2 formulas and that was Good Start and Enfamil. The Good Start gave my son bad diarrhea and didn't help with his mild case of colic. The Enfamil, what I give him now, is the only thing that hasn't messed with his system, so I stuck with it. Enfamil is the more expensive brand, but if you find one that works don't change. He did, however, spit up alot on the regular Enfamil with Lipil, so I changed him to the Enfamil AR. It's thicker and stays down better. Every baby is different. Try one that's within your budget and if that doesn't work well with them then try another until you pick a winner.