plant-based DHA caused sickness in some infants
This is crazy and upsetting! DHA is a growing trend, especially in baby food, and we happen to know (b/c we did research to determine whether or not we want to add DHA to ChowBaby foods) that the research does NOT definitively support safe benefits. We understand the desire to offer parents the best and most nutritious options. But we also believe that until the research is definitive, encouraging a natural and organic balanced diet of whole foods is the best thing we can do. We see this as confirmation. Read on and decide for yourself.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-15-2008/0004792586&EDATE=
On a personal note, I ended up supplementing with Bright Beginnings w/ DHA, named in this article, when I faced terrible breast feeding challenges that forced me to begin supplementing Isaac at a mere 5-months-old. (We’d been traveling and, by the time I realized that my supply had gone down to 1 oz between both breasts and no supplements, prescriptions, teas, feeding on demand, natural supplementing systems, or constant pumping—all of which I did for two insane months—helped.) It’s painful to read this. How discouraging to know that none of the research we do around making the best decisions for our babies matters if we can’t trust companies to do their due diligence around what’s best and safest for the public.
-S
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