Too much chemicals in our milk powder and child development

[auntieM]

Hi HappyAvon,

So far full cream fresh milk does the trick for my DS, he loves cheese too.
I guess Pedisure and weight gain issue varies with different kids.
My DS drank quite a fair bit daily. My friend's DS put on loads of weight quite quickily though.. ..

[minnie2004]

Busymom:

minnie2004:

We actually have a soy milk machine at home but rarely use it, unless we want to make special versions with black beans, peanuts or other ingredients.

What kind of soy milk machine is that? How different is it from boiling soy beans after grinding the beans to powder form?

My parents bought it in China. They like it a lot and bought one for us too. It's actually similar to doing all the boiling and filtering manually, except that the machine will do all that automatically. We just need to soak the beans and put into the machine.

[Busymom]

minnie2004:

My parents bought it in China. They like it a lot and bought one for us too. It's actually similar to doing all the boiling and filtering manually, except that the machine will do all that automatically. We just need to soak the beans and put into the machine.

Sounds good! How much does it cost? Any idea if it is available locally?

[minnie2004]

Busymom:

minnie2004:

My parents bought it in China. They like it a lot and bought one for us too. It's actually similar to doing all the boiling and filtering manually, except that the machine will do all that automatically. We just need to soak the beans and put into the machine.

Sounds good! How much does it cost? Any idea if it is available locally?

I think around RMB600-700. Not sure if they're available here. Maybe some other brand :?

My parents used to make the soy milk the traditional way (boiling etc). But since they have the machine, they use that a lot. Especially my mom has osteoporosis and needs to drink more soy milk.

[toddles]

My dd has also been on fresh milk since 9 months old. Some formula milk and partial breastfeeding from birth till 2.5 months old, then totally breastfed till 9 months.


I give her Meiji whole fat milk which she likes so far. Think she’s not very fussy, when we travel, I give her the fresh full cream milk i can find and she drinks it too.

I believe that formula milk is a big farce by manufacturers out there to make money from parents’ insecurities. plus everytime they ‘re-package’ they charge higher.

in ang moh countries they all drink fresh milk after 6 months. before that, formula milk is only if you don’t breastfeed. cos FM tries to mimic breastmilk. even my doctor friends feed their children fresh milk instead of formula, so i think overall there just needs to be more awareness.

good thread! lots of ppl here already give their kids fresh milk if they are not lactose intolerant. heartening.

[Donkey Kong]

You mean GainIQ, MeadJohnson, Abbott products are useless?

:!:

In their advertisement, they put Phds, in the child's brain.... :?

[minnie2004]

Donkey Kong:

You mean GainIQ, MeadJohnson, Abbott products are useless?

:!:

In their advertisement, they put Phds, in the child's brain.... :?

Do u actually believe in all those ads

[toddles]

yup that's what i believe. it's just marketing.


and no matter how much synthetic calcium you put into milk powder, if it's harder to get absorbed than from natural food, all you are getting is expensive pee.

[auntieM]

Donkey Kong:

You mean GainIQ, MeadJohnson, Abbott products are useless?

:!:

In their advertisement, they put Phds, in the child's brain.... :?

Not useless, but not such a big deal that they claimed to be lar.

[smurf]

actually it's better that you dun give fresh milk to baby under 1 year, cos even if they seem to be taking it well, no diarrhoea, etc, but do you know that the intestine cannot take such a burden? fresh milk is really not suitable for young baby. after 1 year, it's ok. as the intestine is mature enough. brestfeeding is the best for under 2 year. yes, you are right that formula is probably the biggest farce and the biggest profit parmaceutical companies gain. it's all about advertisement. I remember there is a book written which I can't remember the title which talk about the scandal behind milk formula companies.