However, Nestle insisted there were no shortages of its formula milk available to retailers.
Many mothers value fathers doing night feeds with formula milk to relieve tiredness and share baby care.
The antioxidant capacity of five different brands of formula milk was also tested under the same conditions.
More sleep: Formula milk is more difficult to digest for the baby so they tend to sleep longer.
There have also been moves to discourage formula feeding: advertising is not allowed and some hospitals restrict formula milk on the ward.
First, the formula milk that could substitute for breast milk costs money.
While 76% of UK mothers started out breastfeeding - a rise of 7% since 2000 - most resort to formula milk within weeks.
Women who return to work can continue to breastfeed at night and in the morning while giving their baby formula milk during the day.
They often, for example, experience difficulty weaning babies onto formula milk once the baby is used to breast milk and they have to go back to work.
When it comes to breastfeeding, it's quite true that breast milk is best for babies, or at least better than formula milk in terms of protecting them against infections in the short term.
Fresh human milk, irrespective of whether it came from a mother who had given birth to a premature or a term baby, had the highest antioxidant capacity of any of the samples, and significantly more than formula milk.
Farmers across Scotland are being urged to attend a series of meetings to outline proposals for a new pricing formula for milk.
This division is focused on making baby formula and milk products for older children and teenagers, such as Prenagen, Morinaga, Entrasol and Diabetasol.
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Many teaching in medical schools today were raised in the better-living-though-chemistry age, when infant formula was thought to trump the attributes of breast milk. (Formula was certainly an improvement over the non-pasteurized cow's milk that killed many infants at the turn of the 20th century, when breast-feeding was not in vogue).
And while fake drugs are the largest concern for foreigners, within China the greatest fear is over milk formula.
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Public concerns also remains over milk products, after a high-profile scandal involving the use of melamine in baby milk formula.
"Over 70 different tests are routinely conducted in the course of producing infant formula and other milk products, " Nestle said.
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Health regulators from Bangkok to Taipei imposed a ban on food imports from Europe and ordered a recall of suspect products such as milk formula.
At baby showers in America, expectant mothers coo over cute onesies, baby sunglasses and cuddly toys, in China the most valued gift is imported milk formula.
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The strongest sales growth in recent years in China has been for baby products such as diapers (42% last year), diaper wipes (34%), baby milk formula (nearly 26%) and baby cereal (22%).
Mothers were instructed to discontinue the formula supplementation once their milk supply appeared, which generally takes two to five days.
The exceptions were breast milk, baby formula, and prescription medicine.
To help preserve the chocolate in a tropical country before the era of air-conditioning, he used a formula that cut way back on the milk fats of Western chocolates (the reason why chocolates easily melt).
The limit for milk, baby food and infant formula is 50 becquerels per kilogram.
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Perhaps most importantly, we need to stop demonizing mothers who can't breastfeed, guilting them into starving their kids with insufficient milk supplies rather than supplementing with formula.
Their 17-month-old son became malnourished because they couldn't afford to buy formula to substitute for Lalramchhuani's now unsafe breast milk.
The problem in the early days, experts say, is that many mistakenly supplement with formula because they think they aren't producing enough milk and then end up hurting their supply.
Judy lost her milk and they barely had enough money to buy formula.
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The persistent messages that breast milk is better has lead to a counter-narrative: that formula is poison.
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