Hello, All:  There was an interesting article in Sunday's Chicago(IL, USA) 
Tribune.  The first paragraph reads:  "Cow's milk, which is loaded with 
life-sustaining calories, fat protein, vitamins, and calcium is considered 
to be nature's perfect food...If you're a calf."  The article's author goes 
on to say that breast milk is "overwhelmingly better" and that parents 
should wait until after baby's 1st birthday to introduce whole cow's milk 
and switch to low-fat milk when the baby turns 2, all at the recommendation 
of the AAP.  She also suggests that formula is an alternative for those who 
cannot or will not breastfeed.  Nowhere in the article does the author make 
mention of the fact that the standard infant formulas are COW'S MILK!  She 
does an excellent job of pointing out all the "health ailments" that can 
arise from giving our babies and young children cow's milk.  Why, or why, 
did she not mention the cow's milk base of infant formulas?
Sigh...

Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL   USA

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