Tweaking baby formula, whether to make it more like breastmilk or simply responding to perceived marketing demands, is certainly not a new idea. Some parents or grandparents will remember that they used to be able to buy low iron infant formula until a 1989 American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition statement recommended that there was “no role for the use of low-iron formulas in infant feeding and recommends that iron-fortified formula be used for all formula-fed infants.” Before that, low iron infant formulas were sold because many parents believed that the iron in formula could cause gas, colic, fussiness, and reflux, etc. Drinking low iron formula just put those infants at...
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