"..I came across a recipe for baby
formula made from grains. The formula consists of several grains, a little
kombu ,(a sea vegetable) water and is sweetened with rice syrup. All of
these ingredients are usually purchased at a health food store. In preparing
this formula, a pressure cooker is recommended, although a pan can be used
as well..."

The danger in something like this is that babies are a single- (or at most,
double-) source consumer.  They must get everything they need,
nutritionally, from the breast (or the substitute).  While we know that the
breast has everything they need, nothing else does.  How close does this
homemade recipe come to meeting those needs?  No one knows.

Experience has taught us of the devastating effects of various infant
formulas.  Consider the commercial product in which salt was deleted in an
attempt to be "heart-healthy" and lower sodium.  What was not considered
was the need for chloride in the infant's diet, so that babies suffered
from chloride deficiency, affecting brain development.

If a baby was breastfed and fed an inferior formula, the breastmilk would
mitigate the deleterious effects of the formula.  If the baby were to be
fed exclusively on the formula, permanent damage would ensue.  I don't know
if this formula is damaging or not--and neither does the man who is selling
the recipe.

Arly in Northern Utah's mountains <[log in to unmask]> MS Nutrition, CLE, IBCLC

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your
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