What Do All of the Mom's Think of Whole Milk.

So What Happened?™

First I wanted to Thank everyone for their feedback, although some were not congruent with where my thoughts process was heading, those are the ones that made me step back and think, and this is exactly what I wanted: Personal views of other Moms. I have decided to give my son Organic Milk, or Milk that has not been treated with rBST, depending on what I find around where I live. I do have a Trader Joes near me, and a Safeway that has more of an organic section.

Nicole: Thank you for your response. I agree that between the milk and the meat our girls are menstruating and developing way too fast. I guess that would make sense though right, I would imagine the hormones make the cows fuller along with producing more milk. (This is nothing I have researched, I would just imagine so.)I love the feedback on getting the non-organic milk that does not have the growth hormone in it. I think have a Whole Foods near me, so I will have to look into where it is.

Stephanie: Thank you; I do have a Trader Joes by me as well, so I will look into that. I have wanted to shop there lately anyway. I am going to do a 10 day detox, and after that want to start eating a lot healthier.

Jen C: Thanks so much on your feedback on the rice milk. I hope that your baby's GI issues improve. Mine had acid reflux, I was only going to breast feed for 3 months, but the doc said because he did not respond well to formula to keep him on breast milk, so that is what I did.

Christy: Thank you for your feedback. That is very true; something is always coming up as bad for us. They say it was good at one time, then 20 years later it is bad, and the other way around as well. However, the way I look at it is with whole milk with the growth hormone I know that there has been research done and that it could possibly be linked to some not so good things, not to mention the way girls are growing these days is not natural, and then I look at organic or milk with out the growth hormone and this takes out those things that may be linked to bad stuff, and I just don't want to take the chance. However, I do understand what you are saying, it is like you are darned if you do and darned if you don't.

Rachel: Thank you for the response. I do eat cooked spinach, but not raw. My husband has OCD, and his brother is a chef, and he read his book on all kinds of different bacteria’s, something someone with OCD should never do. So he seems to not want to bring anything in the house that has a possible chance of making any of us sick, drives me crazy at time. :-) This is very much a personal opinion and I thank you for your feedback as it made me set back and think and that is what I wanted. However, not really knowing and not being on the level of any scientist and seeing that some of the research does point to these growth hormones being bad makes me not want to take the chance. I think in our country the financial aspect of something is always in the back of peoples minds and I wonder if that is part of the reason why this has not gotten the attention that it deserves because it would be very hard to have that much land to accommodate that many cows if everyone drank organic milk. However, I do think that there are plenty of bad things on our grocery store shelf’s that do not get the attention they need, and I personally want to do everything that I can to make sure that my kids are healthy. At the end of the day, god forbid something were to happen, I want to know that I did everything in my power to make the right choices with the information I was given, I guess that is all we can do. On the blog front I do not believe everything I see, I did go onto no milk and did a Google Search as well. However, the woman that writes that blog is a health coach and I have had other conversations with her, so it is not a random blog. I totally agree with you on the organic meat front, and I am going to look into that as well. My husband is thinking it will be too expensive, but we are not big meat eaters anyway, so I do not think it will be too much more a month.

Lisie: I am totally with you; I am not going to switch over to organic everything, although I am a tad excessive so I have to make sure I do not do that. Same as you, I am just trying to the best I can, and I worry as well about what is being put into our foods now vs. years ago.

Amelia: Thank you for your feedback. I am not a big meat eater, but I do enjoy it too much to go vegetarian :-) Thank you for your post, it made me smile.

Kristen: I know it is a great deal more expensive. I am sure there will be times when I cannot purchase the organic milk either, however I did just learn about the milk that is not organic but it does not have the growth hormone in it, which is another option.

Again Thank you all for your feedback, it really did help. This is an awesome site.