I think that the reason some people want to avoid formula when
they don't bf is because it's not a living food with enzymes
etc.  Some ideas I've thought of for myself if I were unable to
nurse is *wheat sprout milk*,  almond milk, wheatgrass
juice(which if you take every day of your pregnancy is
supposed to beget you a genious), juiced fruits, juiced vegys.
I understand that a person would have to be very careful and
slow with the introduction of fruits and vegys. Perhaps I would
use half living foods and half formula.

(Anyone see the colostrum powder out on the market?  I called a
place in Salt Lake City that is marketing it and they say that
it is bovine colostrum and when I asked who there main target
group for sales was he said the elderly and others with health
problems.  When I asked if you could add it to formula he said
you could.)

I don't see how formula is so great, except for the vitamin
supplement it contains.  Somewhere down the road we'll find out
that all of its careful ratios and proportions were wrong just
like they did with the stuff my mom fed me.

 I would watch my babys cues just as I do as I eliminate foods
from my diet while bfing(because I don't believe my babies need
be sick or colicky).

Anyone out there studying how babies thrive on living foods,
other than bm?
- Joyce Mitchell  These are my thoughts as of now, but they
could change if I were actually in the situation!  I don't give
it out as advice.