Goodbye cradle cap!
I'm excited to announce that I have gotten Sweet Pea off the commercial formula totally. I'm still breastfeeding -- but I had been feeding her the Enfamil formula. I just could not produce enough breast milk each day so I was supplementing.
I just didn't have a good feeling about commercial formula. How can I trust the same companies who are producing products laden with high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils to create a decent infant formula? The truth is, you can't. Based on my research, none of them are really any good.
Which explains why Kate got cradle cap after we started using commercial formula. I couldn't say for sure that it came from the Enfamil -- until we stopped using it and started supplementing with homemade raw milk formula (from the recipe on the Weston A. Price Foundation website -- http://www.westonaprice.org/children/recipes.html).
It's been about a week and a half now that she has been on breast milk and homemade formula -- with NO commercial formula -- and guess what? Yep, you guessed it, the cradle cap is GONE. So is her excess mucus -- which she is also had since she started on the Enfamil three months ago.
We were putting natural aloe on it (from a plant I have in the kitchen), and we put dandruff shampoo on a few times like the doctor said to do. But it really cleared up within a week or so after I stopped giving her the Enfamil. I am convinced that that was what did it. She never had cradle cap before the Enfamil -- and once we eliminated it, the cradle cap disappeared.
And I'm eating a lot better now, so I can make my breast milk better. I'm eating almost NO processed foods and no unhealthy oils (vegetable, soy, canola, etc.). I'm eating lots of grass fed organic beef and chicken and turkey, organic pastured eggs, raw milk, cheese and butter, organic fruit smoothies with colostrum kefir, whole grain crackers and cereal (oatmeal and kashi), whole grain sprouted bread, spring water, kombucha, and lots and lots of organic fruits and vegetables. I'm eating 1-2 salads a day now! With organic cider vinegar, high quality organic olive oil, and natural sea salt.
I still have a couple of cups of coffee in the morning but it is organic and I'm using spring water instead of tap -- and I'm doctoring it with stevia and raw milk. I have a glass or two of (usually organic) wine in the evening. I think all of that is fine.
Oh and I'm taking 2 teaspoons of cod liver oil daily and 4 organic liver tablets. Plus I am cooking with organic coconut oil and raw butter.
Here's what's weird -- now that I am eating this way, I really don't get cravings. I mean, not at all. Don't crave alcohol or sugar or carbs. And I have a lot more energy. I'm feeling so much happier, too. It's like something happened and my seratonin got boosted.
Anyway. I'm happy that doing this is making my breast milk that much better and helping Kate build strong bones and all of that. I'm starting her on semi-cooked egg yolks and next week I'll be adding organic homemade chicken liver pate, and the week after that grated raw liver (frozen for two weeks to destroy any pathogens). Also going to start giving her mashed bananas, avocado, melon, and cooked apple. One at a time, like they say, just to be safe. She LOVED the watermelon I let her taste the other day.
I'm going to bed now.
I just didn't have a good feeling about commercial formula. How can I trust the same companies who are producing products laden with high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils to create a decent infant formula? The truth is, you can't. Based on my research, none of them are really any good.
Which explains why Kate got cradle cap after we started using commercial formula. I couldn't say for sure that it came from the Enfamil -- until we stopped using it and started supplementing with homemade raw milk formula (from the recipe on the Weston A. Price Foundation website -- http://www.westonaprice.org/children/recipes.html).
It's been about a week and a half now that she has been on breast milk and homemade formula -- with NO commercial formula -- and guess what? Yep, you guessed it, the cradle cap is GONE. So is her excess mucus -- which she is also had since she started on the Enfamil three months ago.
We were putting natural aloe on it (from a plant I have in the kitchen), and we put dandruff shampoo on a few times like the doctor said to do. But it really cleared up within a week or so after I stopped giving her the Enfamil. I am convinced that that was what did it. She never had cradle cap before the Enfamil -- and once we eliminated it, the cradle cap disappeared.
And I'm eating a lot better now, so I can make my breast milk better. I'm eating almost NO processed foods and no unhealthy oils (vegetable, soy, canola, etc.). I'm eating lots of grass fed organic beef and chicken and turkey, organic pastured eggs, raw milk, cheese and butter, organic fruit smoothies with colostrum kefir, whole grain crackers and cereal (oatmeal and kashi), whole grain sprouted bread, spring water, kombucha, and lots and lots of organic fruits and vegetables. I'm eating 1-2 salads a day now! With organic cider vinegar, high quality organic olive oil, and natural sea salt.
I still have a couple of cups of coffee in the morning but it is organic and I'm using spring water instead of tap -- and I'm doctoring it with stevia and raw milk. I have a glass or two of (usually organic) wine in the evening. I think all of that is fine.
Oh and I'm taking 2 teaspoons of cod liver oil daily and 4 organic liver tablets. Plus I am cooking with organic coconut oil and raw butter.
Here's what's weird -- now that I am eating this way, I really don't get cravings. I mean, not at all. Don't crave alcohol or sugar or carbs. And I have a lot more energy. I'm feeling so much happier, too. It's like something happened and my seratonin got boosted.
Anyway. I'm happy that doing this is making my breast milk that much better and helping Kate build strong bones and all of that. I'm starting her on semi-cooked egg yolks and next week I'll be adding organic homemade chicken liver pate, and the week after that grated raw liver (frozen for two weeks to destroy any pathogens). Also going to start giving her mashed bananas, avocado, melon, and cooked apple. One at a time, like they say, just to be safe. She LOVED the watermelon I let her taste the other day.
I'm going to bed now.