what are yall doing in response to the melamine?

AshleyNLove

1. im calling the dr as soon as they open tomorrow

2. are yall still giving your babies the formula?

3. are you going to try to pump back up your breast milk supply?

?4. are they any formulas that are safe that you're going to switch to- which you could be traumatic for the baby, of course....

?

any thoughts...?

Temp174496125006552

It's likely that my pedi doesn't know any more than I do at this point, so I am not calling.  Not yet anyway. 

I am going to follow this story and see what develops.  Yes, in the meantime, I am giving him the formula.  He's on Enfamil AR for reflux.  He tolerates it well and I'm afraid to switch him to something else. 

I had low supply to begin with and it tanked when he was 5.5 months.  Me pumping is not an option.

tmp-336341562506044

We use Target brand, which is made by PBM Nutritionals. It doesn't look like they are affected, but I will be keeping a look out.

There is no way I could bring my supply back up!! (I don't think?) I had emergency surgery when DS was 4 months old and had to stop. I tried pumping weeks after and my supply was never the same.

We have changed DS's formula a couple times and there were never any problems. We have tried Similac and Enfamil and then settled on Target. 

bim38106

I'm going to wait until we know more information. It's too vague right now. I don't trust the FDA completely but what can you do now.. You still have to feed your baby. I doubt most people FF could pump back up their BM supply.. seems like all/most formulas are affected.. So all we really can do is wait and see what we're told to do. And I'm sure that's the exact same thing any pedi will tell you until they get more info too. This sucks.

ougrad1

I'm not doing anything until I get something more concrete to go on.  Panicking will do more harm than good.

trizzie

Nothing.  There is nothing we can do at this point except wait and see.  The baby has to eat and formula is the only option. 

Mrs.Saxy

we use walmart generic.  We switched months ago and DS had no problems.

amajane

Nothing. I'm not worried about it.

Mominator

Nothing. I haven't even heard about it other than on here and for the handful of bottles that DS gets in a week, I'm not going to panic.

pappena

I feed my DS 1/2 breastmilk 1/2 Enfamil Gentle Ease. 

Should we be concerned?  All of the articles that I read said Enfamil Lipil with Iron. 

 I am starting to really PANIC!

franciscaz

SunshineClarity:

We use Target brand, which is made by PBM Nutritionals. It doesn't look like they are affected, but I will be keeping a look out.

Ditto!!!!!!!  

Seriously what am going to do?  Go and raid milk donation banks?  My breast were defective so my options are limited!

nylagirl

I emailed my pedi (he's quick to reply to emails) so hopefully I'll get a response from him in the morning. I'll post his response if it's helpful.

In the meantime, I'm going to keep feeding DS his Nutramigen. He's so allergic to everything else it's our only option now.

Ugh.

June24Bride

I think it's ridiculous.

I am not doing anything.

ariam28

Breastfeed more... and go organic.

Sandy0904

Not doing anything right now...who knows if there is a 'safe' formula.  Luckily he was breastfed for the first 6 months of life and only have 2 more months of formula to go.  I found a good news article on it...it explains how much of this chemical was found in US formula in comparison to China, etc.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27914218/

teacherjess

FWIW, if you notice your generic formula is made by PBM, know that most generic formula is made by PBM, ultimately, regardless of what brand name it's labeled under (Target, Wal-Mart, Kroger, Sam's, etc.). So store brand is not necessarily excluded. They didn't even mention if it had been tested or not.

But, they've got to eat. It sounds like this will not end up being as big a deal as we thought.