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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
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 10:43:37 1985
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> 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
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