Good formula good price UPDATE: Good formula NOT a good price

My breast milk wasn't coming in while we were still in the hospital so my baby came home on this formula until my milk came in. It was easy for him to digest and he thrived on it. He lost a lot of weight in the hospital because my milk wasn't coming in. Being on this formula for a little over a day made him gain enough weight that the pediatrician felt comfortable discharging him to go home.



Now my milk came in but my baby won't breast feed from being bottle fed for so long. After pumping for 3 1/2 months and trying to take care of a developmentally delayed 3 year old with no one to help me I am giving up pumping and my baby will be formula fed again. Needless to say I will be using this formula again since I know it was easy for him to digest and he thrived on it. I highly recommend this product.



edited 8/29/09: When I wrote the comment "good price" the seller on this link was amazon.com and the price was $[...]. It's still excellent formula but with a coupon it's probably cheaper to get from your local store. We also tend to find lots of sales at local stores.More detail ...

This stuff is great!

My son unfortunately was unable to breastfeed and could not tolerate any other formula out there. This may be expensive but it has been worth every penny. It has solved his bellyaches and has helped tremendously with his colic symptoms. My husband and I noticed a huge difference in our son's behavior after just one bottle. We got our calm good-natured baby back because of this formula :)More detail ...

great for travel do not contain BPA

First off the bottles DO NOT contain BPA. The lids are coated in an epoxy that does but there is another layer over that to help protect the BPA from getting to the formula. I actually called Similac's parent company to verify this.



Yes they are expensive but I get coupons all the time from Similac and use those to buy these bottles. They are wonderful for camping fishing or any other time sanitation may be an issue. All you have to do is attach your own nipple and ring. Much less to wash.



Though they are really not made to do it you can punch out the center from the ring and put in a standard nipple. It seems like it will leak but it doesn't. Then you can just throw the whole thing away.More detail ...

So handy!

After diapers & wipes these are the most important thing in my diaper bag! I'm breastfeeding my son but we supplement with this formula so my husband can feed the baby (I don't always have enough pumped for a bottle) and for convenience. It is very helpful to have a bottle handy when I'm waiting at the register at the supermarket and the baby is crying to be fed. I love these little ready-made bottles because they are the perfect size and there is no mixing needed - just shake open screw on a nipple and feed the baby.



These don't come with nipples but you can use regular bottle nipples or get disposable nipples separately. You can buy about 50 disposable Similac nipples from the Abbott store online or use Enfamil disposable nipples (I've used these - they fit fine) which they sell on Amazon.com in packs of 10 or 25.



I have two nipples in a ziplock bag and 4 bottles in my diaper bag at all times. There are cheaper feeding options but for convenience I can't recommend these enough!More detail ...

Expensive but easy

I use this to feed my daughter. Its expensive but I don't have to worry about mixing or finding water that I want to use. I also looked on some sites ([....]) and it says this doesn't contain BPA (in the packaging). Most other formulas do.More detail ...

Toxic Hexane in Formula???

To be honest I have never written a review not matter how good or bad a product I received was. I never had the time and never bothered. Today I write my very first review of a product that I have been feeding my precious son since birth. He is now 2 years 4 months. I could never breastfeed him exclusively due to bone density loss and I did massive amounts of research and tried out tons of different brands before deciding on this organic formula from Earth's Best and since then even though he is now a toddler I still use the Earth's Best infant formula and supplement with other child vitamins.



I was trying to re-order again in bulk from Amazon when I noticed for the first time the controversy over DHA/ARA extraction by the use of toxic hexane of which Hain Celestial which manufactures Earth's Best is guilty of. To understand my utter complete fury you must know that I live in Singapore and I quite literally pay international shipping for every can of this formula (and wade through customs declarations tests and tax levies) to bring this milk to my son. In Singapore this can of milk is also available but in highly limited quantities and even more princely prices (yes even after the tax customs and shipping it still costs less than US$68 which is the going price per can here). Calls to Hain Celestial customer service drove me further up the wall when first a lady said the hexane was only in trace amounts and less than what the FDA approved. Then reaching another lady an hour later the story was different. She said that the hexane solvent method was the only method approved by the FDA to extract the DHA/ARA from non-toxic algae and soil fungus. A third occasion and Hain's customer service informed me that there should be no hexane detected in the product but on further probing admitted that she was not aware if the formula had undergone independent third party tests.



To me this is crazy. The formula was marketed as a pure organic product and we pay premium prices (especially me!) for a premium product. To find that that they have taken such short cuts is completely unacceptable and the worst thing is that it turns out that most of the other organic formula companies do this exact irresponsible thing and keep quiet about it. The only company that does not is Baby's Only - it uses a water based process to extract their DHA/ARA from eggs(compare this to Hain's claim that the hexane method is the only one approved by FDA and one wonders why Baby's Only hasn't been hauled up by the FDA yet). My son is going on that pronto once I can get a shipment to Singapore. Unfortunately Baby's Only is not available in Singapore (not even at princely prices) and my son is going to have to continue ingesting his Earth's Best formula in the interim.



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