Feeding Infants, Formula-feeding and Homemade Formula

Formula-feeding and Homemade Formula

Formula is commercially prepared cow’s milk–based infant feeding. For a variety of reasons, a large number of mothers (40% of new mothers by some estimates) choose not to breast-feed their new babies. There are some advantages to formula-feeding that some families find compelling and, as a result, would prefer to use it for their infants.

 
Facts about Formula
The excellent alternatives available to breast milk have become increasingly more sophisticated and more “breast milk–like.” Fortunately, these preparations have been designed to be similar enough to breast milk and yet available in a variety of safe and easy-to-use formulations that they may serve as perfectly acceptable

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