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Milk is best for baby, and mother's milk, at that. If nursing is impossible, go organic, and use glass bottles.Soy is a wonderful food, but it's overprocessed and overconsumed. Look carefully at ingredient lists, and you'll see soy in lots of places. Because soy is an estrogen mimicker, it can throw a baby's balance out of whack. Hormone imbalances can contribute to early onset of puberty, subnormal testosterone levels, thyroid disorders, liver problems, mood disorders, and obesity. Estrogen is also a carcinogen.Soy, unlike estrogen mimickers in plastics (again, use glass bottles, not plastic), does leave the system fairly quickly. (Estrogen mimickers in plastic can stay in the body for years.) But because your baby is growing and changing so fast, your baby may be far more vulnerable to even natural estrogens than adults are. Sufficient research doesn't exist to say for sure. It's certainly safer to give a baby soy than to let a baby starve or become malnourished, but for those who have a choice, why take the risk?Non-organic milk usually has hormones in it. Cow gets bovine growth hormone, cow make more milk. Baby drinks hormone-laced formula, baby may have problems. Or maybe not. Some information seems to be missing.Bovine growth hormone is supposedly inactive in humans, but when it is given to cows, a second hormone supposedly identical to the hormone in breast milk appears. Milk used in infant formula, at some point during the process is treated to denature the second hormone.

This leads to several questions:

Can we be sure Bovine Growth Hormone does not interact with the human body in any way?Is the second formula really identical to the hormone found in mother's milk (a hormone baby needs and is not getting)? If so why do formula makers denature it?

Is the denaturing process %100 effective? If not, what are the side effects of anything that remains active?Just to add more to those new-parent worries, some supposedly organic products aren't, so do some research before choosing a brand if you decide to go the organic milk route.

Don't take my word for any of it. Please do your own research, and use the latest independent scientific studies as often as possible. Even when articles cost, excerpts that contain valuable information are often free of charge.When government, industry, or individuals don't tell you the whole story, it's probably for their benefit, to your detriment.