eli5: why isn’t formula milk just formulated to be better than breastmilk?
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The needs of babies change over time and often much faster than one could adapt. Breast milk changes with it and what comes out of the breast is different every single time the baby drinks. The first stuff that comes out (colostrum) is impossible to formulate.
You absolutely could make formula as good or better than breast milk. But you’d be switching out so often you’d create so much waste. You’d need to create a whole apparatus of testing to make sure the baby is constantly getting what it needs. It’d just be so damned expensive.
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