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Not silly! Organic food has lots of nutritional and environmental benefits.

Yes. We did regular Enfamil for formula -- DD ended up almost entirely exclusively formula fed. However, once we reached the transition to solids, I was all about organic. We eat quite a bit of organic in our household, and I feel even more strongly about going organic w/ DD's tiny little body. I'm the same as you that I just tried not to look at the formula ingredients. We started w/ formula at a stage when I was just too frazzled to think about what my daughter was consuming. The pediatrician said we needed to start supplementing and tossed me a can of Enfamil, and that was that.

Is it because you think one cancels out the other, kind of?

For me, it is more important to consider locally manufactured or grown. So while my son's infant formula wasn't organic, it was manufactured in the country where we resided, which made me okay with it.

@daniellemybelle: totally not silly! Overall in our Lo's childhood, formula is going to provide a few months worth of nutrition, but it is her diet going forward where lifelong important eating habits are built.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but isn't organic food mainly about the lack of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers? I don't see why infant formula would have anything to do with that. It's manufactured to mimic breastmilk, it's the closest thing we have to it. When we started weaning, she had organic food.

As a baby, DD was on Neocate, a specialized formula given though Rx because of a milk protein intolerance. She tried other amino acid based formulas before we got the prescription for Neocate. I am very grateful we live in a time when specialized formulas exists. I don't know how people dealt with this a century ago. It takes 2 weeks before milk protein leaves the body, so even when wet nurses were common, there's still an elimination diet and a baby still needs milk. I can't say enough how grateful I am for formula.

No, but I don't buy a lot into the whole organic thing, anyways. I can't even tell you wtf it means anymore.

@daniellemybelle: Like you, we decided against organic formulas because of the additional sweeteners. I have no idea why organic ones have that extra filler, so weird. But we will definitely feed DS organic cow's milk (that's what we drink) and probably organic for the "dirty dozen".

I see your husband's point, it's kind of like "if you didn't care before, why care now?" In my case I did care, but I felt like in that specific case, non-organic formula was the best choice. However, when DS starts eating strawberries? Yes, we'll buy organic.