Sally Fallon Morell responds: You may want to dilute with a little water until about 10 months. But yes, raw cows milk would be fine. Are you give the baby other foods?

My son is 8 months – can I give him raw cows milk? If so, how much a day?

Sally Fallon Morell says: There is no danger of getting listeria from raw milk–there has never been a recorded case. Give your son a few more days to see whether his restlessness settles down. However, usually the raw milk formula makes the babies more active.

Sally Fallon Morell says “There is nothing like raw milk for building strong baby teeth!”

Will raw milk rot the teeth if baby falls asleep with it ?

Sally Fallon Morell replies: I would definitely try drinking raw cows milk–you need the calcium, Mom! And then when baby is weaned, try raw cows milk for the baby. And you can make kefir from raw milk also.

Sally Fallon Morell replies: Yes, I think the main thing is that your son needs more nourishment. How old is he now?
First, I would definitely transition to raw whole milk–really the best thing for him. The flatulence is just his gut getting used to it. You may want to add a little water at first. Give the soft egg yolk with a small spoon. Be sure to add a little salt. Just a little at a time. Also, he needs pureed liver–chicken or duck. Should be a really smooth puree of cooked liver–add some salt and a little butter and broth or water. Should be quite runny at first. Start slow and build up. Then you can give some mashed banana with a little cream and again, salt. He will love this!

The main thing is that the foods should all be soft and smooth. Start slowly with each one. If he is on raw milk, he will be getting good nourishment as you build up with the other foods. None of the formulas are good, not even the European organic ones.

I have a six-month-old son, born at 39 weeks, who has always weighed in the low normal range. I breast-fed him until he was 3.5 months old when I tragically had to stop as I understood that indeed the stress hormones were passing into my milk and ruining his ability to be calm and sleep. Since my husband and I needed to reduce the stress in our lives, making the homemade formula was out of the question (eg, we live in France). We use Holle and HiPP.

Soon after, I began putting some runny egg yolk from a briefly boiled egg into a bottle about once a day. At that time he began vomiting his bottles often, whether there was egg yolk or not (before, he had vomited only rarely, and when breastfeeding, never, despite my oversupply). I wondered if I triggered a chronic reaction from perhaps putting too much yolk; he was not sick. Anyway, now after a pause I’m doing it again and usually it’s going well, but I’ve noticed that his poop afterwards is a bright orange. Does that mean that he is not digesting it?

I’ve tried giving him tiny bits of banana, cantalope, cooked carrot, Oriental/Japanese purple sweet potato (there’s a WAPF article that says sweet potato can be given at 6 months?), and today a bit of cooked beef liver. He doesn’t seem to really like anything. He swallows some, spits some out. I saw the carrot undigested in his poop! Does it have to be totally puréed?

Since a couple weeks I’ve also been putting about an ounce of raw milk in a couple bottles a day. I noticed him sometimes having loud flatulence, which is rare, so I stopped for a couple days, only adding some of the raw cream, and it ceased. Do you think he’s having trouble digesting it? I didn’t dilute it since I put it with his formula.

What do you recommend from here? He was sleeping up to 12 hours at night and has dropped down to around 9-10, so I think he needs to eat more (and he drinks at least 32 oz a day), but apart from putting the egg yolk into his bottle, getting the extra calories is feels impossible… And he has a sleep dept (always rubbing his eyes), so I can’t spend hours spoon-feeding him.