Too many people today feel they cannot achieve the most basic of tasks that even isolated jungle tribes can still manage to do: feed their own babies. Somehow, with all the high-tech dazzle, iPhones, high-frequency Wall Street trading, electric vehicles, space rockets and all the rest, America still can't figure out how to feed babies - something that humans have been doing for thousands of years.
Parents across the US are going from store to store in search of baby formula and finding only empty shelves. We have become so dependent on corporations to feed us. This cycle truly needs to end. If you would like an alternative to infant formula, this information is for you. I’m going to share with you 3 alternatives to infant formula that you can easily make at home that are actually superior to all of the infant formulas made by corporations.
What Created the Infant Formula Disaster? Let’s cover this quickly:
In mid-February 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shut down Abbott Nutrition’s infant formula manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, resulting in a severe shortage of formula across the U.S., as labeling regulations bar most infant formula from other countries to be imported.
May 16, 2022, the Biden administration announced it had reached a deal to reopen the Abbott plant in about two weeks, which should result in shelves being restocked in another six to eight weeks.
The Biden administration is also loosening the regulations around foreign imports of infant formula, relaxing WIC restrictions on the types of formulas you can obtain, and cracking down on price gouging to discourage hoarding and reselling at higher prices.
While that may solve the problem in the short term, it does nothing to address the underlying problem, which is the fact that the U.S. market is monopolized by three companies: Abbott, Mead Johnson and Gerber.
So, because of all this, many people have been concerned about the infant formula shortage. I think it’s actually good in a way because infant formula is full of toxins, and at least now people are more open to healthier alternatives.
Breastfeeding is the absolute best. It’s exactly what God designed, and it is superior to anything man could make. But when I can not breastfeed at times, I give my babies goat milk. Goat milk is much closer to human milk than cow milk.
Before there was any such thing as “infant formula” produced by corporations, our ancestors would give their babies goat milk when human breast milk was not available. This is still done by many around the world today.
We get our goat milk from Trader Joe’s, Sprouts, and sometimes a local farm. One important thing pasteurized goat milk from a store doesn’t have is living enzymes, so I get a baby probiotic formula from Sprouts, Whole Foods or another health food store locally to compensate. Jarrow’s formulas has a baby probiotic formula. If you are getting raw goat milk fresh from a farm, then it will have the enzymes and you will not need to supplement with probiotics.
I coached a family once where the mother could not breastfeed and they had an infant that was extremely sensitive to formula. There was only one brand they were able to find that the baby could somewhat tolerate, but it was expensive, and it cost over $600 per month to feed their baby. I taught them about goat milk. They were scared to try it but desperate because they simply could not afford the expensive formula and their baby still had problems with it anyways.
They decided to try to at least give their baby 50% goat milk and 50% formula, and the baby did wonderfully, and reacted much better than with 100% formula. When they baby got older, they took him off formula all together and just did goat milk 100% of the time.
Personally I would have just used 100% goat milk but some are concerned because they want something that is as close to human milk as possible.
Conventional infant formula is certainly not better nor closer to human milk than pure goat milk. However if you want a more sophisticated formula, you have to make it yourself at home and use pure ingredients.
The Weston A. Price Foundation has been a leader in this for years. The formulas below are from one of my favorite holistic healers, and are based on Mary Enig, Ph.D.’s formula in her book “Nourishing Traditions.” However, based on research into linoleic acid (LA), iron and other components, the following formula is revised so as to NOT include any kind of iron or seed oils with high LA content, because “Iron Overload Destroys Mitochondria and Sabotages Health” and “Linoleic Acid Wrecks Your Health.”
Healthy Homemade Infant Formula
2 cups organic, whole, cow milk, preferably raw unprocessed milk from grass fed cows. For sources of good-quality milk, see orwww.realmilk.comcontact a local chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
If the only choice available to you is commercial milk, choose whole milk, preferably grass fed organic and non-homogenized (Kalona SuperNatural non-homogenized organic milk23 is one example), and culture it with a Piima yogurt culture, available on CulturesForHealth.com, to restore enzymes.
For sensitive bellies, raw goat’s milk may be better, but since it’s low in vitamin B12, be sure to add 2 teaspoons of frozen organic chicken liver (boiled), finely grated, to each batch, and begin egg-yolk feeding at 4 months of age.
4 tablespoons pure lactose (a milk sugar), available on Amazon.
Infant probiotic
2 or more tablespoons of good quality, organic cream (regular, not ultrapasteurized). Use more if using milk from Holstein cows.
1 teaspoon of Carlson’s liquid cod liver oil, available from CarsonLabs.com,26 Amazon and most health food stores.
2 teaspoons organic, virgin coconut oil, available in most grocery and health food stores. The coconut oil provides medium-chain saturated fats also found in mother’s milk.
2 teaspoons Sari Foods non-fortified nutritional yeast flakes, available on Amazon. Nutritional yeast provides essential folic acid.
4 teaspoons Great Lakes beef hydrolysate gelatin, available on GreatLakesWellness.com. Before adding the gelatin into the formula, you’ll need to dissolve it in the recommended amount of water; heat gently until completely dissolved.
2 1/4 cups pure filtered water. Do NOT use tap water if your local water supplies contain fluoride. Most filtration systems cannot filter out fluoride, so only use fluoride-containing tap water if you have a water filtration system that is certified to remove fluoride.
1 teaspoon acerola powder, available on Amazon. Acerola is an excellent source of whole food vitamin C.
Optional: 1/4 cup homemade liquid whey (see recipe for whey, below).
Optional: Monkfruit sweetener. If your child has gotten used to the sweetness of corn syrup-sweetened infant formula and is refusing unsweetened formula, you can use a little liquid monkfruit as a sweetener, available on Amazon30 and in most grocery stores. However, AVOID any monkfruit brand that contains erythritol, which can cause gastrointestinal stress. Try to lower the amount used, over time, to discourage the development of a sweet tooth.
This recipe will make 36 ounces. Place all ingredients in a clean glass or stainless steel container and mix well. To ensure your mixing bowl is properly sanitized, place it in boiling hot water for a few minutes. Remove with tongs and let fully cool before using.
To serve the formula, pour 6 to 8 ounces into a sanitized glass baby bottle, attach the nipple and set it in a pot of simmering water. Heat until the formula is warm but not hot to the touch. Always check the temperature of the formula before feeding using either the back of your hand or your tongue. Never ever heat formula in a microwave oven. You’ll need to make a batch every other day or so, but the formula can be frozen so you have a stash for emergencies.
Homemade Whey Recipe
To make homemade whey, start with plain unsweetened yogurt, raw milk or cultured milk. Rest a large strainer lined with a clean linen kitchen towel or several layers of cheese cloth over a bowl.
If you’re using yogurt, place 2 quarts in the towel-lined strainer. Cover with a large plate and leave at room temperature overnight. The whey will drip out into the bowl. Place the whey in sanitized glass jars and store in the refrigerator.
If you are using raw or cultured milk, place 2 quarts of the milk in a glass container and leave at room temperature for two to four days until the milk separates into curds and whey. At that point, pour the mixture into the towel-lined strainer and cover with a plate. Leave at room temperature overnight to separate the whey from the curd. (The whey will drip out into the bowl.) Store in clean glass jars in the refrigerator.
Dairy-Free Formula
If your baby has a milk allergy, you can make a liver-based formula as follows. This recipe, again revised from the original Weston A. Price recipe to remove iron and seed oils, will make 36 ounces:
Ingredients
3 3/4 cups homemade beef or chicken broth
2 ounces organic liver, cut into small pieces
5 tablespoons lactose
Infant Probiotic
1/4 cup homemade liquid whey
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 teaspoon cod liver oil
1 teaspoon acerola powder
Procedure
Gently simmer the liver in the broth until fully cooked through. Liquefy the liver using a handheld blender or food processor. Once cooled, stir in all the remaining ingredients. Store in a sanitized glass or stainless steel container.
News Highlights:
Bill Gates appears to be behind the push to stop breastfeeding and encourage uptake of BIOMILQ, a cell-cultured “human milk” made in a lab, along with other varieties of fake food
Nearly every large meat and dairy processor/manufacturer has also acquired or developed plant-based meat and dairy substitutes
This “protein” industry convergence is jeopardizing the resilience of the food system and reducing genetic diversity of livestock and crops
When you factor in soy production as well as the use of conventional energy sources, lab-grown meat may be worse for the environment than conventionally produced chicken and pork
There are signs that the fake meat industry may be failing before it ever gets off the ground; shares of Beyond Meat lost $6 billion since March 2020 due to weak sales growth
To save the planet and support your health, skip all the fake meat alternatives and opt for real food that’s being raised using regenerative, grass fed methods
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