I think this topic is an example of many people's false sense of security about the safety of infant formulas. At the time Julia was placed with us for adoption, one of her doctors had been having her foster mother mix four scoops of formula powder, which would usually be mixed with eight ounces of water, with only five ounces of water. This was fed to her through a gastostomy. I did not choose to keep feeding her like that, for several reasons. I was afraid of what it might do to her kidneys, to concentrate the formula like that. I felt like there were many other, safer, things that could be done! Adding a scoop of formula powder to one ouce of water would result in something of basically the same composition as the condensed versions of formulas that are meant to be mixed with equal amounts of water. Mixing it with breastmilk rather than water would result in something almost as concentrated as evaporated milk! Especially if it was a young baby who was not getting other liquids, such a practice would be very dangerous, IMO! I wonder if the person who suggested adding that much powder to breast milk wasn't confused about some aspect of it, or misunderstood. I could see maybe adding something like a scoop into 8 ounces of breast milk, but certainly not to just one ounce! I would tend to agree that doing something to concentrate the fat content of EBM would be a more reasonable thing to do. With Julia, I asked the ped about adding a little regular dairy cream to her formula (this was before I figured out how to get her breastfeeding and had no access to EBM). He acted like that was the silliest idea he'd every heard of, and told me to just reduce the water in the formula. I tried the cream anyway. I started adding about half a tablespoon of cream to 4 ounces of prepared formula, three or four times a day. I didn't want to just add alot of empty calories, so I thought a total of one ounce of cream a day was plenty. I was doing several things at once to try to get her gaining weight, but felt like the cream did contribute to the fact that she started growing, and just being healthier, in general. Had she been sigificantly younger than 6 months, at the time, I would have done more research before adding the cream, to try to determine what the effects would be, as far as increasing the ash content of the formula. I wish the mom of the baby with weight concerns well! Darillyn _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfeeŽ Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html