Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!pking From: pking@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Formula to homogenized milk Message-ID: <31400015@uiucuxc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:28:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.31400015 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:28:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:33:34 EST References: <222@tekred.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:tekred:-22200:uiucuxc:31400015:000:1299 Nf-From: uiucuxc!pking Feb 7 11:28:00 1985 I have never heard of mixing formula and milk -- particularly not soybean formula -- Two of my three children, the first and the last were on soybean formula's until they were nine months old, then their doctor said I could try giving them milk -- prior to this time however, they had milk products, cheese, ice cream, etc. just to make sure they were not milk allergic -- i tended to warm the milk a little, just to take the cold edge off of it before giving it to them, much as I did with formula -- I tried giving them milk at meal times at first, rather than formula with their food -- gradual introduction worked well, because according to many responses I've heard, milk tastes better than formula -- also, I never relied too much on milk for the children -- the two on soybean formula tended (and still to this day, one is 10 and one is 3) not to care much for milk, so I pushed milk products, putting milk on their cereal, and things like that rather than forcing them to drink it -- I did make sure they were getting the needed vitamins, etc from other food so milk was not an absolute necessity -- Try gradually daily giving him milk, maybe on his favorite hot/cold cereal or mix it with scrambled egg -- it may be he'll be one of those people who don't like to drink milk --