>Heather
>I agree with you, that commercial milks are so far from breastmilk that I do
>not feel there is much difference between those and the homemade ones. I
>think it would start a revolution though, at least in the USA, to recommend
>that as an option to families who can't/won't bf. Because of the huge
>marketing and the cultural acceptance of commercial formulas.


I wouldn't even think about it, either in the US or the UK! It would 
sound like madness!

The manufacturers have done a very good job over the past 100-plus 
years (and thanks, Virginia, for that great post!) in promoting the 
idea that *anything* commerce and industry does is better than 
mothers can do in their own kitchens (let alone with their own 
bodies).

Amazingly, they have managed to emerge with relatively clean hands 
from their dalliances with arrowroot biscuits, totally unmodified 
formulas and other products; even now, when formulas are still 
changing and 'improving', the message is that ' what we are offering 
you now is really fantastic and will improve health and it is 
important for infant health that this alone is used' and no one says, 
'hang on, that's what you said last time you added something.....'

The biggest coup is with healthcare professionals though. HCPs who 
would never dream of saying anything critical about the use of infant 
formula would faint away in horror* (before calling social services) 
if a mother declared her intention of using a home made formula to 
feed her infant.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

* slight exaggeration only. The social services comment is not.

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