Bright Beginnings Organic Powder - 23.2 oz

My wife, child, and I have been very satisfied with this product. We are primarily feeding with breast milk, but we are supplementing with formula. We knew that we had to make sacrifices by including formula in our baby's diet, but we wanted to find the best formula we could. Thus far we have been happy with "Bright Beginnings Organic." We looked at Similac's organic formula, but we were turned off by this NYTimes article.

After researching Bright Beginnings, I found this write-up particularly helpful in making my decision:

In practice, we have not noticed a lot of gas with this formula, and our baby shows no hesitation in taking this formula. I will say that I see a bit more gas when I get lazy and shake the bottle to mix the formula rather than stirring it but I can't blame the product for this.

Thus far, we are very happy with this product, and we feel good about our choice for now.

We adopted a newborn & I researched high & low to find an organic formula for our little one. I have been very pleased with Bright Beginnings. I only wish I could purchase it at my local organic store.

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Would have given 5 stars as it's a great formula. But, my daughters baby needed a formula with better protein breakdown for gas so she had to switch to Enfamil gentle ease. If Bright Beginnings had a formula similar we would have gone with that one.

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We tried all the organic dairy based formulas and this one was slightly gritty. It kind of separated in the bottle, so when my baby got to the end, there was a pile of mush in the bottle. We ended up not having luck with store prepared formula because there is just too much iron in it. We have since resorted to making her formula from scratch which she does really well with and digests fine. If you are interested, check out the Weston A Price Foundation for the recipe.

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Although our baby had no problems eating it, we did notice some increased fussiness in the hours after feeding her this formula (compared to breast milk feedings). Both milks were fed out of the same bottles, so that is probably not the source of the difference.

From an aesthetic standpoint, this formula stays really gritty after mixing and foams quite heavily. I'm unsure if this is what contributed to the fussiness, but that possibility exists.

We ended up switching to Earth's Best organic formula. It is more expensive, but foams less, isn't gritty and doesn't result in post-feeding fussiness. Unlike the Bright Beginnings formula, the Earth's Best is verging on indistinguishable from breast milk in the bottle, with a similar smell and taste.

Other than the fussiness, however, we didn't notice any increase in constipation or spit-up with the Bright Beginnings formula, and it is cheaper the the EB brand.

Rather than dump the remaining powder, we plan to start mixing this in with mashed foods around 4-6 months.