Jack, on 18th August you wrote, " I agree that formula at 10 months is completely unnecessary, even if the baby is not breastfeeding.... a baby of 10 months can drink plain cow's milk, goat's milk, camel milk, mare's milk, and maybe even platypus milk, as long as he gets a variety of other foods in adequate amounts and gets a decent amount of iron (which is pretty easy if he eats meat).... It was only about 15 years ago, that the Canadian Paediatric Society was saying cow's milk at 4 months. Then until about 8 years ago, cow's milk at 6 months. Now it's 9-12 months. Based on what, all this? Formula company support for the Society. Sure, the *excuse* is iron, but really, unlike in the US, there was no *big* issue of iron deficiency in Canada in 6-12 months old. You don't need formula to get iron." Quite so. But I was wondering at what age non-breastfed babies can receive straight animal milk without harm? I understood that there were concerns about renal solute load and other excesses or deficiencies as well as iron deficiency anaemia if milk is the baby's only source of nutrition. BTW I think the development of special formulas for older babies was to get around the Code which prohibits marketing of formula for younger babies. Pamela Morrison IBCLC, Zimbabwe [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html