I am so glad your little boy is turning 1 next week and will be off the formula.

You bring up a very important question for any parents that were not able to breastfeed.

I am thinking that there should be more promotion and support of breastfeeding in real measurable terms so that medical challenges will not prevent breastfeeding success.

To this end we are sending a petition to President-elect Obama. Please sign it and put in your concerns. http://budurl.com/Petition4BF

In addition, human milk banking should become more widespread and available as an alternative to formula which is too quickly offered as a safe feeding option by the members of the health care system. With government and public support the cost of obtaining safe expressed human milk could become more affordable.

One would hope that in the meantime,consumers will maintain their scrutiny on this topic forcing the formula companies to self-regulate to a zero tolerance level with or without government regulation.

Hopefully, in the very near future, we will not need to worry about Melamine being in the food supply for babies, humans and our pets!

Apparently, the Canadians and Americans Health Authorities are aligning themselves on this issue.

We must press them to promote breastfeeding over the bottom line of drug companies!

If over 50,000 Chinese babies were adversely affected by Melamine, how can we not deduce that there are issues with safety?

I hope that breastfeeding and the use of expressed milk for those who need it will be promoted in the wake of this disturbing news!

Unfortunately we were unable to breastfeed our baby (believe me, we tried but our baby had an infection and almost died, he had to be formula fed and subsequently rejected breastfeeding). Thank god he’s turning 1 next week which means we can do whole milk but we still have some Enfamil Lipil, which he’s been drinking since birth.

My question is – for those mothers who are unable to breastfeed, what alternatives do they have?