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Can anyone recommend a good organic formula milk for newborns?

429 replies

megglewell · 26/06/2008 10:32

Have read a bit about HIPP but no others..

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kkdmom · 27/06/2008 14:22

few 2 occasions

Place · 27/06/2008 14:26

Much as I would love to promote breastfeeding, here is a constructive addition to this thread - another organic formula

www.ulula.co.uk/shop/baby-food-listing.php?CatID=113

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susiecutiebananas · 27/06/2008 14:29

I certainly have KKdmom... but can imagine that it must have been after massive provocation?

Quicksilver · 27/06/2008 14:34

Tiktok has not got a vested interest in breast milk. No one has.
The only reason she or anyone has for mentioning it are genuinely altruistic.

susiecutiebananas · 27/06/2008 14:40

couldn't agree more Quicksilver

tiktok · 27/06/2008 14:53

Awwwww...

I have lost it once or twice with the occasional poster, true, but please don't go looking for these threads It hasn't happened for ages! On each occasion it was with someone whose job it was to support new mothers and they were pronouncing the most awful tripe, plus claiming they were qualified to do so. So, natch, I did raise a perfectly-plucked eyebrow at 'em.....

StarlightMcKenzie · 27/06/2008 14:54

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Chequers · 27/06/2008 14:54

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tiktok · 27/06/2008 14:55

Ackcherly....I never really lost it. I just pulled out all the stops, in a perfectly controlled way

smallwhitecat · 27/06/2008 14:55

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Chequers · 27/06/2008 14:56

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margoandjerry · 27/06/2008 15:00

not at all the same starlight.

No one has any emotional attachment to Rennies or any anxieties about Zantac or any physical reason why one or the other is harder or any lack of family/medical professional support regarding one over the other or any fears about how to prepare one compared to the other or any issues about taking one in public and fearing censure from passing busybodies.

It's a lot more difficult and complicated than that.

I have literally just finished emailing a friend who is trying desperately to BF and is sobbing because she fears she is failing so I am sending her the details of my rather lovely bf counsellor so I think of myself as a fully paid up bf supporter on the sly but I think your example is just not valid.

Chequers · 27/06/2008 15:01

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MsDemeanor · 27/06/2008 15:07

If someone posts - 'I need to get my two year old out of my hair because her behaviour is so bad it is making me really dislike her. Which nursery chain is best?'
That it would be out of order for anyone to post anything except; 'Well I like Little Rascals' or 'I think Ickle Tinkers is best' and for nobody to say, 'hey, all two year olds are hard work, but what's really driving you mad at the moment? Can we help?'

kkdmom · 27/06/2008 15:09

yes chequers, that is a personal attack and i will not apologise for it.

i had already been told to reel my neck in after providing a point into the discussion.

then after I have apologised for a minor misunderstanding, (who posted a quote which freddy agreed with so applied to her anyway) I was told something about coming on and posting half-cocked replies rather than graciously accepting my apology. Hence my assertive response about her lecturing me.

i can't see where you are asking for the other party to apologise to me when she launched the first attack then failed to accept my only apology with grace.

margoandjerry · 27/06/2008 15:10

I did think the original answers to the OP were a bit unhelpful tbh. She asked a straight question and didn't get a straight answer. She got loaded answers.

FWIW to the OP in case she ever re-emerges, I had a lot of problems bfing. Huge, horrible problems despite my determination to do it, completely buying into the whole thing, growing up with bfers etc etc.

I got there in the end thanks to my lovely bf counsellor (mentioned earlier and if anyone is interested I can pass on her name). By the time I met her I was already using formula to top up and she preferred SMA to Cow and Gate. There may be an organic version, I don't know. Anyway, that's all I can say on the original question.

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DKMA · 27/06/2008 15:10

I posted on the gardening thread about that spot on my arse and they told me to feck off as I wasn't being relevant

No I didn't really, only joking!

margoandjerry · 27/06/2008 15:11

But Msdemeanour, the OP didn't post a loaded question like that. She posted a simple question.

Chequers · 27/06/2008 15:12

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MsDemeanor · 27/06/2008 15:12

What about someone asking for the best nursery chain because they were finding their two year old such hard work? Would it be 'insensitive' and wicked to say, 'What sort of hard work do you mean?' or is it only allowed to name a nursery chain? Because that's really not how mumsnet works.

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Aitch · 27/06/2008 15:13

thing is though, smc, the reverse might also be true.

you (and i) weren't bfing exclusively by 6 weeks and that couldn't be helped (or in my case who really knows, maybe if i'd had mn..?)

however someone else making an enquiry perhaps could be helped. so both cases might equally be gutted not to be bfing, one case might be saved from that pain.

say, as an example, if the OP had been told that she couldn't bf because of a drug interaction, as has happened plenty of times on here. often the OP has it plumb right, otoh often the OP has been given duff information by medics who have no interest in bfing, have not tried to find out the latest and best information and crucially have no idea whatsoever of the powerful emotional and physical effect that not bfing might have on her.

so for some people tiktok's comment might have been irritating, for others it might have been an absolute lifeline for their hopes of bfing.

you can't legislate for the answer when you don't know it (which by not mentioning bfing is what you're doing), you can only attempt to calmly open up the discussion and explore the issues at play.

so you wouldn't mention bfing on a ff thread. nor would i, as it happens, it's not really something i know enough about unfortunately.

but i don't think there's anything wrong in tiktok, an experienced bfing counsellor, gently opening up a discussion in as light-hearted and unjudgemental a way as possible.

that poster might have been thankful beyond belief that she did. and for those of us who do know the pain of not bfing (as you say, there are A LOT of us) i'd have thought that preventing another woman going through it would be a good thing.