I would like information about the use of goat's milk and colostrum for human infants. There is a lay midwife in my area and her followers who reject the commercial formulas when any of their babies need a supplement for any reason and tout the advantages of goat's milk. This midwife has goats, and freezes their colostrum and recently offered it to a mother who is adopting a baby. The mother later called me for info about adoptive nursing and asked if she should consider the offer for goat's colostrum for her baby. I told her I know very little about goat's milk, but do not see the advantage of goat's colostrum for her baby. What is the purpose? Anitbodies? The goat's colostrum would have antibodies to goat diseases and germs the mother goat was in contact with. It is designed to protect HER babies, not ours. Also in my former life (60's and 70's) for mothers who did not want to buy the store formulas, we used to provide a "recipe" for making your own formula at home using evaporated milk, karo syrup, and water. (That was the formula I was given as a baby). Since some of these people do not listen to me and feed their babies goat's milk, does anyone know a reliable source for a recipe to make goat's milk formula for human babies? When I ask people if they are using a recipe, they say no they had never thought of that. Well if straight cow's milk isn't good for infants, why should straight goat's milk be? It is still a barnyard animal. I suspect the protein and minerals may be too high for a human baby's kidney's solute load just as cow's milk is. By the way, I did give all the usual information to the mom about adoptive nursing and included information about milk banks where she could get "human milk for her baby" although it is heat treated which distroys the antibodies, advantages would still be wonderful and far superior to ABM. (Triangle Milk Bank in Raleigh, N.C. is the closest to us) Information please!!! Jane Bradshaw LLLL, RN, BSN, IBCLC Private Practice in Lyncyburg, VA Still believing in Human Milk for Human Babies