Hello Carol -

How about Modified Cow or Soy milk as a title and use "sold as 'formula'" in
parenthesis after.  If you do not specify the white fluid is formula, you
will loose a lot of people who will not "get it" that formula is modified
coy or soy milk.  They may think the list is for something different than
what is in the cute can with the bunny!  If doctors do not know what
"formula" is, how can we expect the general public to know?

Now, if we give you ideas, do we get to see a copy at the UNM conference
next month?????

Linda Pohl, IBCLC
Phoenix AZ


Hi! I am 6 weeks behind on posts, but read several relating to terms used
for formula. I am writing along with our state task force a pamphlet to help
expectant parents make a decision as to how to feed their babies. We are
trying to make it purely factual, no lists of pros and cons, no advantages
and disadvantages which end up being personal opinions and not facts. I have
been trying to decide what to call "formula". I do not like the term formula
because it give parents the idea that this is some magical "formula" that is
mixed up in a laboratory to be "just like breast milk". I can't tell you the
number of HCP who take my class who do not know that formula is cow's milk.
I do not like the term "artificial baby milk" because it is not artificial.
Webster defines artificial as " made by human work, not by nature; not
natural. Most formula is made naturally because it is cow's milk, but it has
been modified so that human infant's can tolerate it. Thus, I would like to
call formula, "modified cow's milk". What do you all think?

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