368: Make Your Own Baby Formula
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. is experiencing a nationwide baby formula shortage. What to do at such a time? When breastfeeding isn't possible, a homemade baby formula is a wonderful alternative.
Sally Fallon Morell and Mary Enig co-authored Nourishing Traditions and they also developed a recipe for homemade baby formula decades ago, which has helped innumerable babies thrive.
Today, Sally explains how they came up with this alternative and why it is preferable to commercial formulas that often contain seed oils, corn syrup, and other questionable ingredients. Sally goes over the ingredients needed to make this homemade version, explaining how each ingredient benefits the baby. She even offers alternative ingredients for babies with allergies or sensitivities.
Visit Sally's blog: nourishingtraditions.com.
Join Nourishing Our Children.
Find a local WAPF chapter leader.
Go to radiantlifecatalog.com for formula ingredients.
Buy "Nourishing Traditions" from New Trends Publishing.
Check out the WAPF homemade baby formula resource page.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I was writing nourishing traditions, |
| 0:02.4 | I asked Mary, my co-author. |
| 0:04.4 | I said, how would you feel? |
| 0:06.8 | How would you feel by having a recipe for formula in here? |
| 0:10.0 | And I was surprised that she was all for it. |
| 0:13.2 | She said, we really need this. |
| 0:14.8 | She said, commercial formula is absolute junk. |
| 0:18.1 | It gets the baby off on the wrong foot |
| 0:20.3 | and she was not against raw milk either. |
| 0:22.4 | So the recipe is hers. |
| 0:24.8 | We, you know, compared cow's milk and human milk, |
| 0:29.2 | she said, we need more way in here. |
| 0:32.1 | We need lactose. |
| 0:33.6 | We need more vitamin C. There's more vitamin C in human milk. |
| 0:36.6 | And there's more omega-6 fatty acids. |
| 0:38.8 | So that's why we added the oils. |
| 0:40.6 | And we had read that the gelatin would make it more digestible |
| 0:44.6 | and we added the yeast for B vitamins. |
| 0:47.0 | And people started doing this formula. |
| 0:49.4 | And we got these wonderful testimonials |
| 0:52.0 | about how well the children did on the formula. |
| 0:55.0 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, |
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