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Enfamil® NEXT STEP® LIPIL® question?
i got a sample in the mail. my 10 month old is breastfed but lately shes not so interested. is this a good formula to give her once a day? it says its like cows milk. its for 9-24 months. should i be giving her one tahts like breastmilk instead?
Good lord, no. That stuff is garbage compared to your milk.
If you are really in doubt as to whether it is garbage or not, taste it yourself. Basically powdered milk, icing sugar, and a vitamin pill.
Your daughter has NO need for Enfamil's swill. There is NO formula "like breastmilk," period.
It is normal for babies to seem a bit disinterested around that age. It doesn't mean they're weaning; they're just more interested in what's going on elsewhere. Persist; it's well worth it. There is some useful advice here: http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/distractible-baby.html
"Is formula almost the same as breastmilk?
No, and not by a long shot. Just because every few years the formula manufacturers add something to their formulas that we knew was in breastmilk for years, but the manufacturers denied were of any importance, doesn’t mean that the “new and improved” formula is just like breastmilk. In some cases, the formula is improved, but remember, they were telling us that the formula before the “new and improved” version was also “almost like breastmilk”. This is true, for example, of the long chained polyunsaturated fatty acids (DHA and AA) that are supposed to make your baby smarter (one company even calls their formula A+, but it deserves a C- at best). We’ve known how important these fats are for many years, but for many years (before they were added to formula, of course), the manufacturers, echoed by many health professionals, just kept saying that it didn’t matter, and that there was no proof that these fats were of any importance at all (this is still in the Canadian Paediatric Society’s 1995 statement on the nutrient needs of premature babies). This cycle of “our milk is just like breastmilk” followed by “we have now added x to our milk so that it is even more like breastmilk” has been going on since the 19th century.
The truth of the matter is this:
Just adding something to formula, even if it is in the same amounts as in breastmilk, does not mean that the baby will get the amount or the best sort he needs of this particular something. The example of iron helps us understand this. Breastmilk contains enough iron (with the stores the baby has during pregnancy), to keep the baby iron sufficient for at least 6 months. To maintain iron sufficiency in formula fed babies, formula needs to contain at least 6 times more iron than breastmilk, just because iron does not get absorbed from the baby’s gut as well from formula as it does from breastmilk.
There are still hundreds of components of breastmilk that are still not added to formulas.
Breastmilk varies in what it contains, from morning to evening, from day to day, from beginning of the feeding to the end, from day 1 to day 4 to day 10 to day 100, so there is no way we can know what breastmilk really contains. This means that there is no way to duplicate breastmilk because there is no such thing as a standard breastmilk. In fact, since every woman produces somewhat different breastmilk, the notion of a standard breastmilk becomes an absurdity. Breastmilk is a living, dynamic fluid. Formula is a chemical soup."
http://www.kellymom.com/newman/28toxins_in_breastmilk.html
"Contaminants In Infant Formula"
http://www.naba-breastfeeding.org/images/Contaminants.pdf
Enfamil commercial (1994)