Hi All,
I should have said "verbal beating" not oral. Hey, I'm in Israel, am I 
supposed to know English...
Chayn
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From: "Fogelmans" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:08 AM
Subject: almond milk for a five week old


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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