четвртак, 12. мај 2011.

Choose Best Baby Formula

If you’ve decided on formula as the choice for feeding your baby, you might be a bit confused about all the choices.What types of adapted milk are there?

In the market there are various types and varieties of artificial milk. They differ in the way of preparation, composition and age for babies, which are intended. For selection of the adapted milk consult pediatricians who monitor your baby.

Artificial milk for babies are made so that approximately resemble the composition of breast milk – adjust the ratio and type of protein, fat, sugar, salt and other nutrients. On the advice of a physician can also use the milk for your baby to have less gastrointestinal disorders such as cramps, gas and thin stools.

In the market there and milk that are fortified with vitamin D and iron, but they are intended for babies older than the fourth month.

When the baby goes to breast milk or standard formula to regular cow’s milk, can drink milk with added iron, zinc, iodine and vitamin C and D.

There are even special adapted milk for those babies who are allergic to milk or have a metabolic disorder such as phenylketonuria.

Ready to mix

This milk is most prevalent in the market. Sold in powder or liquid and should be dissolved in conventional or sterilized water. This alternative is cheaper, but it takes more time to prepare.

Ready for pouring

This formula milk for babies is sold in cans of different sizes. Open a can and pour into a sterile bottle and so offer your baby.

Ready to use

Fast food for babies – This variant of milk is sold packaged in a bottle and is designed for one meal. The amount already prepared milk in the bottle is 125 or 250 ml. Just put pacifier on sterilized bottle and baby can eat.

In some cases where a child has some health problems, it is necessary to pay special attention to the selection of adapted milk because there are a variety of special formulas.

If your baby has diarrhea often, choose lactose – free formula or milk with low amount of lactose,
If there is intolerance to lactose and sucrose, it is a special milk formula which is based on soy milk,

Premature babies and babies who have an allergy to proteins in cow’s milk to drink formula milk, based on the proteins from whey,
Children with coeliac disease, recommended milk formulas are gluten-free,
Children with phenylketonuria, formulas without phenylalanine,
In the case of allergies, it is soy milk formula, they does not contain lactose, for better filing.

When you make a meal out of baby milk adapted always follow the manufacturer’s instructions and be that consistent. When purchasing an artificial milk or water for making it, you should check the production date.

Make sure that the composition of milk includes the following essential ingredients:

Taurine (amino acid), which is involved in the formation of brain tissue, retina, and the adoption of fat digestion, and the formation of immunity,
Lipids – which are also necessary for the formation of brain tissue and retina,
Whey – in mixtures which is based on cow’s milk, it replaces the casein (milk protein), and such a formula is easily digested.

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уторак, 12. април 2011.

Baby Formula Essentials


Adapted milk formula is the next best choice after the mother's milk. In the absence of breastfeeding, baby formula enriched with iron is a suitable substitute for the infant born on time.

Although milk formulas are not identical in composition to mother's milk, so that they are designed to meet the nutritional needs of this age. Otherwise, they are used as a substitute, or in addition to breast milk (when mothers do not breastfeed, or do not have enough milk).

Indications for use of the Baby Formula: - substitute for breast milk when an infant is unable to suckle, - supplement to breastfeeding babies who do not progress adequately in weight.

Medical contraindications to breastfeeding: - maternal infection caused by microorganisms which pass into breast milk, - congenital metabolic disorders in babies, or other reasons that cause sensitivity to the components of human milk, - mothers exposure to drugs that are excreted in breast milk, which are harmful to the infant. There are several types of formulas. Each has a different purpose, but all provide healthy food for baby. Formulas are specially designed to meet the baby's nutritional needs, and to the modified proteins from cow's milk, with the addition of milk sugar (lactose), fats, vitamins and minerals. These ingredients are very similar to the components of human milk.

It is best to offer a formula enriched with iron, to compensate for it with iron provided by breast milk, and that the formula is closer to the required model of meal. There are two basic types of formulas: - based on cow's milk - soy based.

In formula manufactured from cow's milk are modified fats, carbohydrates and protein level. Add as vitamins and minerals that would be nutritious and they are hard to digest. Soy based formulas used soy protein rather than those in cow's milk and is recommended for babies who have a lactose intolerance (intolerance to milk sugar) or a food allergy. Cow's milk has too much protein and minerals, and can overwhelm a baby's little organism. It has low fatty acids that are needed for normal growth and development of infants, and very little vitamin C and E, iodine and iron which are poorly absorbed, so the children fed whit cow's milk can be anemic. So child should eat cow’s milk after first birthday.

In some cases where a child has some health problems, it is necessary to pay special attention to the selection of adapted milk because there are a variety of special formulas. Schedule daily meals adapted infant milk at birth: 8-10 servings per 60-120 ml II and III month: 5-6 servings per 120-180 ml, IV-VI month: 5-6 servings per 150-180 ml, VII-IX month: 4-5 servings per 180-200 ml, X-XII month: 3-4 servings per 200-240 ml.
Some studies have shown that artificially fed infants gets the weight faster than breast-fed infants, a trend that can serve as a postulate that artificially fed babies later in life can be obese. This is possible if the one who feeds the baby decides when it will be end of the meal. Many times mothers insist on baby to drink all the milk from the bottle. The contrary, a breastfeeding mother allows the baby to determine the end of feeding by itself, because it is unable to measure the amount of milk that baby eats every.

It is advised to the parents to study of baby milk for healthy and sick children and to choose some reputable global manufacturers that have already been present for decades in market. Similac, Enfamil, Parent's Choice (carried at Wal-Mart), and Nestles Good Start are some of them.

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