Which Milk to Choose

It is very important that you choose the right milk for feeding your baby. No doubt cow’s milk is the best and preferred by one all for artificial feeding especially if you do not want to make things too expensive. Milk powders are costly but have the advantage of being less contaminated and free from adulteration. The next option would be the buffalo’s milk. Cow’s milk or modified buffalo’s milk currently available for sale may contain about 5 to 6 percent of fat. The recommended dilution for cow’s milk for the first fortnight is 1:1. Subsequently it should slowly be decreased to 2:1, then to 3:1 and later as such without dilution. The suggested dilution of buffalo’s milk is more or less the same as that of cow’s milk. Skimmed milk powder should not be used for infant feeding. Not that there are no advocates of proprietary formulae. For instance it has been suggested that large amount of sodium consumed during infancy may cause high blood pressure in later life. So care should be taken to feed proprietary formulae with low sodium content only. If you choose to give powder milk, see that you start with a standard brand and also make sure that its supply is not going to be short in the subsequent months.