Hello Friends,
Yesterday I got a bit of an oral beating from a mother that I am working with for not knowing that "almond milk is scientifically proven to be the closest thing to mother's milk."  She heard this from a well known mommy-guru in her very natural community.  I told her that perhaps it is the closest non animal milk and that I would check.  I did come across a long thread in the archives but with no real conclussion.  Could it be that almond milk is the closest non-animal milk to human milk?  This mother must supplement.  Her baby nurses 3 to 4 times a day from other women.  Besides that, and nursing her herself, she has given her organic formula, raw goat milk, hemp milk and almond milk.  She stopped with the goat milk since it made her baby smell bad and she ran out of hemp seeds.  The baby is 5 weeks old.  Is it a problem to give her almond milk in conjunction with all the mother's milk she is getting?  Is there a better non-formula substitute (besides donor milk which she is already using.)

She won't believe me anyways but I still have to do my part.  (Her husband wouldn't believe me that the reason the baby was below birthweight at 4 weeks was not just because the neighbors had stopped providing meals after 3 weeks!)

Thanks in advance,
All the best,
Chayn in Israel IBCLC
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