RAW VEGAN BABY FORMULA RECIPE

1 qt 100% Raw Organic Young Coconut water (from www.Harmlessharvest.com )

(this is available at most health food stores, or can be ordered through them.)


3/4 c. Organic raw almonds, soaked overnight with skins removed. (This gives your baby many needed fats & other nutrients.)


1/4 c. Organic white chia seed gel, (this is made by soaking 1 part chia seeds to 10 parts water overnight.This gives your little one super amounts of calcium, protien, DHA & the Omega fatty acids needed for brain development.)


1/4 tsp Essante' Super Reds available here: [essanteorganics.com]
(this adds the needed vitamins for your baby.)


1/8 tsp Essante' Earth Greens avail. here [essanteorganics.com]
(this adds the minerals, iron & calcium your baby needs.)

Optional: 1/2 tsp Dairy-free Probiotic powder (I like Renew Life Brand powder)

Note: I usually like to give my baby his probiotic mixed in a small amount of milk seperately as the probiotics can cause the milk to start to "culture" or become slightly sour if the bottle sits out for any length of time.

Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend on HIGH speed until almonds are very well blended. Now, you must strain this milk through VERY fine mesh bags, cotton cloth etc..several times to get as much pulp as absolutely possible. Baby does not need any pulp and it will clog the nipple on a newborn bottle nipple. Store in refrigerator in glass jar for 2-3 days or freeze in bottle size portions using breastmilk storage bags. This is wonderful and was a Godsend when my newborn baby had an allergic reaction to my breastmilk due to a huge accidental pesticide exposure via crop duster shortly after his birth. My breastmilk had very high levels of pesticides so that i could not nurse him. He started to thrive and gain weight on this formula within days!! Good luck to you Mommies & precious babies out there!!!

Kristi, Mother of Eight, raw food chef & nutritional advisor

What about breast milk? Or is this for women who cannot nurse?

Interesting! Can you provide some more info about this formula? Where did you get it from, or did you make it up? Has it been 'tested' somehow (other than on your baby)?

Did your breast milk return to 'normal' again? Did you keep expressing milk to keep the supply up so that you could return to feeding yourself once the pesticides were out of your system.


You do hear of babies not thriving when their parents feed them 'different' diets - it's one hell of a risk.

Breast is best. Go with what Mother Nature intended. I think it's too hard to know what you'd be leaving out to risk substituting breast milk with anything else. A "wet nurse" (substituting milk from another person) may sound strange, but is second best. If breast milk isn't available, going with whatever is AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to mothers' milk would be better than a vegan baby formula. Excellent nutrition at such a formative time is imperative. I'm a raw food advocate, but Flipperjan is right - you'd be taking a dangerous risk giving a baby a raw baby formula instead of breast milk.


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I think this is meant for women with lactation problems, the kind that can't be corrected with herbs.

Not a mom, me, but I'd feel more confident about feeding a baby nutritionally correct vegan[or vegetarian] formula than in finding a wet nurse that is healthy enough to feed a baby of mine! Not where I live I won't!

A premade formula Tam? Not sure anything healthy exists. A woman comes here to pick up pumped milk from my cousin for her baby while her supply is not adequate. It's a fairly common practice in the alternative parenting community. There are milking goats here, not sure I'd want to give my own baby raw goat milk but it's done. I've nursed other people's babes in my time, shared immunity and all that. Only works for younger babes though, they get to know mom's b00b and won't take another.
As for this recipe, I'm sure an analysis can be done to see what's what.

I agree Coco - no formula is going to be as good - and as for giving tiny babies nuts and seeds - even if pulverised and strained endlessly - very unwise IMO.