Infant milk formula
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According to BBC NEws, dozens of Chinese babies are said to have died from malnutrition in the past year after being fed fake or inferior-quality baby milk powders.
I am not one of those mothers who believe everything said in milk formula ads. Our two daughters took milk formula only during their first year. They were breastfed for the first few months as well. They were eating table finely-diced table food at six months, Except for about two months when our first-born suffered from a bout of digestive problems, both our kids did not eat bottled baby food. Per their pediatricianÕs suggestion, we gradually shifted them to full cream milk after their first birthdays. At around the same time, I decided to do away with baby vitamins.
Why? Because I never believed in all that advertising crap about milk formula ingredients making your child smarter nor those vitamin syrups making them healthier. First of all, once a child has enough teeth, he should learn to chew. I have little patience with mothers who take the easy way out by giving the child a bottle of milk instead of encouraging him to appreciate different food textures and flavors. The usual but heÕs so picky, so hard to feed crap is no excuse. HeÕll get all the nutrition he needs from milk formula and bottled multi-vitamins is a common but one of the most misguided statements I have heard from mothers of my generation.
I have a friend whose kids do no eat anything but hotdogs, pizza, burgers, fried chicken and spaghetti. I have another friend whose firstborn, at four years old, cannot manage to swallow more than a few tablespoonfuls of food because he had been fed with Gerber during the first two years of his life. I have a relative whose firstborn, now aged 15, still only eats hotdogs, burgers and fried chicken. I have many friends and relatives whose children not not drink water. Only soda. The common denominator? Their mothers kept on giving them the same things because it was easier and more convenient. For the mothers. Another common denominator? All these kids do not eat vegetables.
Yeah. go on. Give your kids milk formula. Do the multi-national companies a service while giving your own kids the greatest disservice of all.
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