When my first daughter was born feeding her was a challenge. She didn't want to latch for breastfeeding and the formulas weren't working. She would just vomit everything up moments after ingesting it, which led to incessant crying.
First-time parents waiting for CPS to knock down the door because we couldn't get our baby to eat.
Regular formula, expensive. Soy formula, more expensive. Hydrolyzed formula, most expensive, but it was the only thing that worked. When it's your baby, it doesn't matter if the only thing she'll eat is milk from a bald eagle, you'll get it.
"It's hydrolyzed because the protein is already broken down," my wife supplies.
All this seems so long ago that it's hard to remember. Me standing in the kitchen, mixing this yellow chalk with water so it would be ready the next day. Or cramming as much as I could of the formula into the grocery cart when it was on sale. It was hard. I can't imagine doling out twenty-five bucks a pop for that formula now, I don't see how we did it then. The CPS didn't come. Our baby was healthy, and fed, and warm. She still is. It's hard to get her to eat her greens, and negotiating twenty jelly beans down to ten is always trying, but she's healthy, fed and warm.
I have a lot to be thankful for.
On Friday, March 11, a 9.0 earthquake ravaged Japan.
The water has become contaminated from the radiation emitting from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility.
Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has advised people not to give the water to infants.
http://www.redcross.org/
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