The Moose's Goat Milk

The Moose was born allergic to diary and soy (I think we fixed his gut and he won't have any allergies). When he came home at 1 month old (he was adopted), he was on a prescription formula that was 57% corn syrup! And 2 prescription meds and 2 otc meds and took all 4 daily. It took the doctors and his transition family lots of long sleepless nights to get that regiment down. They did an amazing job loving him for the first month of his life and we are very grateful to them (thank you Billy!). But as soon as he came home, I knew the scripts would not fit into our natural lifestyle.

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So I started researching. I went to a local homeopathic doctor (Dr. Newell). He answered all my questions and made me feel a lot more confident about giving Morry raw goat's milk. I quit the scripts cold turkey one day and gave him the goat's milk. WOW! He took to it amazingly. The transformation was instant. Dr. Newell did prescribe a iron supplement since the goat milk is lacking. We gave him the supplement until he started solids at 4 months. At his 6 month checkup, his iron levels were perfect.

I get the raw goat's milk from a goat farm in Aubrey. I go once a week (on Tuesday) and pick up our milk. Ryan & I switched to the goat's milk (we were drinking raw cow milk). We both still prefer cow dairy, but the goat milk is good. And we have become used to it.

After the research I have done, if I have another formula feed child, I will not use a commercial formula. To each his own and I support all parents' decisions to do what is best for their little ones. But for me, commercial formula will never be best. I love The Moose's raw goat's milk!

The Moose had a ton of digestion and reflux problems. As part of that, his formula was super thick when he first came home. We didn't use that very long, but I think it was about 4 tablespoons of a dairy free rice cereal (plus the formula powder) per oz. of liquid. We were able to wean him down to 2 tblsp. / oz very quickly. But he had lots of trouble keeping it down any thinner than that until he was about 7 months. We are now at 1 tblsp / 4 oz (he's 9 months). I will test out no rice cereal very soon and think he will be fine. I am not a fan of rice cereal at all. But I never found a better option.