Sunday 12 August 2012

What type of milk is your baby drinking?

What is the best milk for Skyler? This question has always been my number one concern, and up till today, I would still look up more information to ensure my decision of Almond Milk from time to time. Come to find out that there are many moms out there like me that have the same question... not sure about you, the Malaysian moms? I am thinking you probably don't have to worry too much since most babies and toddlers in Malaysia are drinking formula of either soy or cow milk? Am I right?  I said this because dairy milk selection in Malaysia is very limited, I did not see much variety of dairy milk being sold in Malaysia, I was not able to find any fresh dairy Almond milk in Malaysia for Skyler during my last trip, the closest almond milk that I could ever found is from "Cold Storage" in Mid Valley, and it taste awful. So, even you have the same concern as me, you probably not going to have much choice but to go back... just to soy or cow milk, unless you know any store in Malaysia that sell variety of fresh dairy milk, if you do, pleaseeeeee let me know.

Ok, what a long opening. So, there are many different types of milk out there that parents use to feed their kids, oh my! you'll be surprised to see this:

Cow milk
Raw Milk
Soy milk
Almond milk
Coconut milk
Rice milk
Goat milk
Hemp milk
and more

Each of the above milk has its own pros and cons, you should considered each milk nutrition with its pros and cons, then go with the one that best match your baby needs. For me, personally.. I will not go with cow milk, there are just too many articles out there that against cow milk, just Google it, below are just some examples.

http://www.waoy.org/9.html
http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/linda_folden_palmer.html

Soy milk is another common substitution of cow milk, we all drink soy milk since we were little, but I am a little skeptical with its substance that can cause problem on hormone and thyroid function:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/224425-the-pros-cons-of-soy-milk-for-children/
http://www.healthychild.com/soy-alert

Well, it will be too much if I post the pros and cons of each milk, you might fall to sleep... below is a little information about almond milk. From my own experience: Skyler always has nose congestion, feel like he just born with it... I saw immediate improvement on his symptom about two weeks after I switched him from cow milk to almond milk:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/almond-milk-nutrition-facts.html

There are probably over 10 millions opinions out there from different experts, everybody is saying different thing, it makes my brain hurts sometimes after too much reading. :) In short, you need to find one milk that best matches your baby needs, generally speaking... the 4 most common milks are cow, soy, almond and goat milk. conclusion that I have from all these reading are as below:

Goat milk over cow milk
Almond milk over soy milk

So, what types of milk is your baby drinking?









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