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Dear Mamas,
I also wanted to mention that the fabulous sponsor of these here comics deserves a visit, look to the left, right there…host a green cleaning party! I’d love it if everyone would visit and perhaps sign the petition, even host a party. (they don’t pay by the click, they send me some money to have their advertising there for a week, so give your wrist a rest ;o)
xox,
Heather
I agree! I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard about the “controversy” over the sugar content. The entire IDEA is disgusting and should be controversial.
So.. what they are saying is that… for babies who aren’t sleeping through the night (who you then have to let cry it out so that you can sleep, right?), we want to add something that contains SUGAR (or artificial sweetners) and CAFFEINE for to their food.
Oh, but wait… they really shouldn’t be having that food, anyway (at least not without a very good, doesn’t occur often, reason…. I’ve been there, I know it happens… my milk never came in with my second… I’m now on meds that I couldn’t find a working alternative for and had to choose to give formula to my daughter.. but my first son successfully nursed until he weaned himself)
So how is this going to help?? Also, aren’t we having enough problems with obesity in this country without getting our kids started on sweets as infants?? So now it’s going to be… NO, sweetie, you can’t have that yummy taste of mommy’s birthday cake, but let’s give you chocolate every single meal of your life!
Just too ridiculous for words.
To Kat_momof3 – it’s actually follow-on formula, i.e. “toddler milk”.
Still makes my eyes roll so hard they rattle, though.
Yeah for years I never knew there was such a thing as toddler formula. Then a friend of mine from college mentioned that she had trouble getting her two year old to drink his toddler formula. This was right around the time my own son was born, so I had done a lot of learning about breastfeeding at this point. I was astonished.
So wait, I should forcibly wean my baby at exactly one year, even though he doesn’t want to? Even though he still needs my milk for nutrition? I must then supplement his nutrition with “toddler formula” because he still needs the nutrition he should have been getting from my milk but which I have stopped him from getting because he’s “too old”?? And when he doesn’t want to take his toddler formula, I should entice him to drink it by giving him added chocolate, sugar and artificial ingredients?
This makes sense??
Even thought it’s “toddler formula”, I’m already aware of one mom/reviewer who was giving it to a baby, and recommended it for newborns/infants. I wept.
You would think, in a world where a majority of people are such health nuts (or strive to be), that this wouldn’t even make it past marketing.
Give babies chocolate? Why not?! Then we can diagnose them with ADHD and mellow-out their suger-addled little brains with drugs. All to make Mommy and Daddy’s day a little easier.
Maybe chocolate formula should come with free ear plugs?
How does this differ from pediasure, which has been available in chocolate flavor for years?
On this note. I took a field trip w/ my son’s 1st grade class yesterday. The girl in our group who is healthy and does not have excess fat but is not a tiny waif like some of her classmated said, “This is a lot of walking. It’ll be good, I’ll loose some weight.” Then another friend heard a dad telling his under 2 daughter, “If you don’t get out of the stroller and walk you’ll have fat thighs.”
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i guess we can hope the magnesium in the chocolate will do the poor babies some good.
chocolate on bacon? you can go off people you know…..
Another example of Corp America forcing unhealthy food on us…not to mention another example of the lack of delayed gratification in our society. So bad now we can’t even stand for our infants who don’t want chocolate to wait.
I get the pediasure. When your kid is sick – too sick to keep his weight up enough to leave the hospital, maybe he will take it in chocolate form. This happened to a friend of mine and her child. When it’s added to something that people are “advised” to use for regular, typically developing children, well it certainly sets them up for a lifetime of sugar addiction among other things.
;o)
hee hee
@Lori: On that note, read this post on first the egg.
Are fat kids bad at school? (Hint: We’re asking the wrong questions about fat children & academic achievement.)
My oldest says that chocolate milk comes out of my right breast…LOL. Maybe the formula companies heard that and just wanted to make it more “like breastmilk”?
when i eat chocolate during my breastfeeding times, mt babies are very gassy and colicy….NOT a good idea!!!
Even if the baby has no alternative and has to have formula, why oh why do they need CHOCOLATE formula? I’m sure the chocolate tastes no better than the regular stuff, and has more crap in it. UGH. So annoying. This makes NO sense to me at all.
My daughter says breastmilk tastes better than chocolate milk. She *loves* chocolate milk. So there you go. Apparently my breasts were her gateway to chocolate milk!
As a Mom with a child who has severe oral aversions and spent his entire 2nd year of life living on crackers and peanut butter (and Momma milk) I would have no qualms about offering chocolate formula if that meant my child would be getting extra nutrition. (though we tried pediasure and he wouldn’t drink that so this may be a moot point LOL) I would hope that no one would judge me on that choice. Formula (yes even chocolate for the over 1yr old set) should be a valid option for medical needs.
My toddler is quite content with a fistful of Ghiardelli chocolate chips and a boob.