In reply to Janet Simpson's question, here goes. When I worked in Omaha,
NE, one day a week I was at the WIC clinic.  The RDs there always went
ballistic when a mother chose goats milk, usually over breastmilk as well
as cows milk.  They felt that the solute load was WAY TOO HIGH for babies
under 6 months. I checked intot this from the American Dairy Goat
Association and none of their literature mentioned any of this. Thye
contended that goats milk was JUST GREAT for human infants, right from
birth, no dilution, etc.

The advice given in Nebraska was if it must be used, it MUST be diliuted
with equal parts of water through the first 6 months; thereafter, it could
be given full strength, but we always tried to get the mothers to
breastfeed at elast part of the time.

Comments by the many RDs (where are you Queen Insectivorie and Braah Zeer?)
would be most helpful here.




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