Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!srradia From: srradia@watmath.UUCP (sanjay Radia) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Cows milk too hard to digest. Message-ID: <11425@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 10:43:37 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.11425 Posted: Mon Feb 11 10:43:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 03:56:42 EST References: <222@tekred.UUCP> <1793@pucc-h> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 > Everything I have read suggests that you shouldn't change your child > over to cow's milk until s/he is at least 12 months old. As a local > doctor put it: "Cow's milk is very good for baby cows, but it is > very hard to digest for baby humans." > -- > Tom Putnam > {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:ac4 I've heard that goat's milk is much easier to digest since the weight of a goat's kid at birth is about the same as that of a human baby. Also, I have heard that in India, at least in the villages, if a mother dies after giving birth, goat's milk is used as a substitute for the mother's milk. -- sanjay UUCP: ...!{ utzoo,decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!watmath!srradia ARPA: srradia%watmath%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa CSNET: srradia%watmath@waterloo.CSNET