Get To Know Goat

Get To Know Goat. Yep, that’s what the branding slogan and the Kabrita website said, and so I

clicked through to see what’s new. I’ve been waiting for the FDA to approve goat’s milk infant

formula for three years, and it looks like we’re finally going to have that option for American

babies. In January of 2020, Ausnutria, a company in the Netherlands, presented completed

research data to the FDA for review and approval to sell their formula in the US. when the

Pandemic hit. Needless to say, priorities shifted. Time flies when you’re on lockdown!

Fast forward. It’s 2023 and I’m at the national meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics

where the experts just revised the Academy’s official infant feeding recommendations to

include goat’s milk formula. Breast is best, but when that’s not feasible or there’s insufficient

breastmilk supply, it’s official: both goat’s milk formula and cow’s milk formula are good

options to nourish an infant through the first year.

What’s this really mean for your baby? It means January 1, 2024, Kabrita Goat’s Milk Formula

will become the newest, choice for infant formula, properly regulated by the FDA, and if you’re

one of those parents getting goat’s milk formula on the "black market" you will no longer have

to deal underground. People buy baby formula on the "black market," you ask? Believe it or not,

they do!

Cow’s milk doesn’t agree with everybody’s digestion, and many families know that a dairy

sensitivity runs in the family. (This is different from a dairy allergy.) If you’re expecting a new

baby, and you already buy alternative “refrigerator milks” (like soy, oat or goat’s milk) because

cow’s milk doesn’t agree with you, Kabrita is a goat’s milk-based formula option, ok’d by the

FDA and the AAP, that’s now on the market if exclusive breastfeeding isn’t in the cards.

As more and more parents take the lead in deciding which formula to buy for their babies, it’s a

paradigm shift of sorts, away from the advice of a knowledgeable pediatrician to the many

other experts on infant feeding. For my part, make sure you have all the information you need,

and “get to know goat” as you do your research.

The plain bottles photo credit is =>Photo by Jaye Haych

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