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Feeding Infants
NURSE: Breastmilk, breastmilk, breastmilk. There's no way to replace it fully. Formula hasn't replicated it, even though they're getting better each year. They're always finding new compounds in milk, discovering new roles for previously discovered compounds.
NURSE: Breastmilk, breastmilk, breastmilk. There's no way to replace it fully. Formula hasn't replicated it, even though they're getting better each year. They're always finding new compounds in milk, discovering new roles for previously discovered compounds.
Even after the kid starts eating legit meals, keeping breastmilk in as supplementary/complementary has utility:
Provides immunological benefits.
Reduces incidence of allergic/intolerant reactions to food antigens.
She's still producing for a reason. Better not ignore.
Provides immunological benefits.
Reduces incidence of allergic/intolerant reactions to food antigens.
She's still producing for a reason. Better not ignore.
FORMULA
Commercial formula: Fatty acid composition based on what's common in breastmilk of seed oil-eating women today, not physiologically normal or evolutionarily congruent. Isolated nutrients rather than whole foods; what are they missing?
Commercial formula: Fatty acid composition based on what's common in breastmilk of seed oil-eating women today, not physiologically normal or evolutionarily congruent. Isolated nutrients rather than whole foods; what are they missing?
Still, formula is getting better. Or, you can make your own.
When wife's supply dipped after a year, we tried our hand based on the Weston A Price recipe:
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/childrens-health/formula-homemade-baby-formula/
When wife's supply dipped after a year, we tried our hand based on the Weston A Price recipe:
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/childrens-health/formula-homemade-baby-formula/
I left out the sunflower oil, instead including soft boiled egg yolk in the formula, which we'd add at every feeding. Soft boil the egg, expose the yolk, pierce the sac and let contents drain into bottle.
This provides folate, vit. E, and other B-vitamins. Choline. And PUFAs.
This provides folate, vit. E, and other B-vitamins. Choline. And PUFAs.
Included Inulin-FOS, a prebiotic fiber that when added to formula replicates some of the effects of the non-digestible sugars in breastmilk. This helps create a more breastmilk-esque gut biome in the baby. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BAA15C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Included inositol, which is present in high amounts in breastmilk. Also contributes to the sweet taste of breastmilk.
Used virgin cod liver oil (fresh-pressed) rather than fermented cod liver oil, which I don't really trust.
Added a drop of vitamin K2.
Used virgin cod liver oil (fresh-pressed) rather than fermented cod liver oil, which I don't really trust.
Added a drop of vitamin K2.
If I were doing this today, I might try to figure out a replacement for the nutritional yeast. Not sure there. They are a great source of B vitamins, but I'd prefer a natural source, rather than synthetic.
Formula isn't ideal, but sometimes you need it. Even commercial.
Formula isn't ideal, but sometimes you need it. Even commercial.
WEANING: Kids can eat solid food when they start showing interest. Trust uncorrupted instincts.
Shanks, bone-in ribeye, ikura, paté, marrow, soft-boiled egg yolks mashed with banana, potatoes cooked in bone broth and mashed with marrow, melon, fruit. Well-cooked vegetables
Shanks, bone-in ribeye, ikura, paté, marrow, soft-boiled egg yolks mashed with banana, potatoes cooked in bone broth and mashed with marrow, melon, fruit. Well-cooked vegetables
They don't need "baby food." They need food. Feed them what you're having.
Chop it up, mash it up, even chew it up if you're so inclined.
Beat pickiness. A 9 month old will try anything. Daughter's favorite snack was raw liver chopped up. Son's, smoked oysters.
Chop it up, mash it up, even chew it up if you're so inclined.
Beat pickiness. A 9 month old will try anything. Daughter's favorite snack was raw liver chopped up. Son's, smoked oysters.
Be sure to introduce bitter foods. I liked giving 85% dark chocolate, decaf espresso.
Serve bitter vegetables with butter and a touch of fish sauce—the glutamate in the FS can help "teach" the kid's reward system to desire whatever food it came with. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Boat-Sauce-Fluid-Ounce/dp/B00K6ZJ1W2/ref=asc_df_B00K6ZJ1W2/
Serve bitter vegetables with butter and a touch of fish sauce—the glutamate in the FS can help "teach" the kid's reward system to desire whatever food it came with. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Boat-Sauce-Fluid-Ounce/dp/B00K6ZJ1W2/ref=asc_df_B00K6ZJ1W2/
Now, at 7 and 4, my kids will eat just about anything. You really see the difference when their friends come over and the only thing they'll eat is mac-n-cheese.
Okay, next I'll talk about toddlers.
Okay, next I'll talk about toddlers.
