Formula Pancakes
When Peanut was two days old we took her to her first doctor visit for a check up. I am breastfeeding so the doctor asked me if my milk had come in. I told her it hadn’t and she responded by telling me that I needed to supplement the baby with formula until my milk came in to make sure that she was getting enough nutrition and then proceeded to give us some cans of formula. And if you know anything about breastfeeding you know what a terrible idea that is. If you want your milk to come in faster you need the baby to nurse as much as possible. And it’s not like the baby is just drinking air until the milk comes in, they are drinking colostrum.
Anyways, Charles and I just looked at each other, said thanks, and left taking the formula with us. We knew that we would never use it but we couldn’t bring ourselves to throw it away (oh and we switched doctors….we can’t have a doctor that knows nothing about breastfeeding!!). So my aunt came up with this pancake recipe!
1 1/2 cups flour
1 3/4 t baking powder
3T sugar
whisk above dry ingredients and them mix seperately:
1 1/4 cup water with 3-4 scoops of formula
1 egg
Melt 3 T butter in the pan you will use to cook the pancakes. Whisk the melted butter into the formula and eggs. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir.
Make your pancakes!
Sweet Pea and I made them this morning and the were yummy!!
Very creative! And I love the shots of Sweat Pea as Iron Chef: Pancakes! Of course, since he gets to do the tasting as well as the cooking, you can’t call the competition fair. But still.
Hmmm, I had never thought of cooking with it…
Such cute pictures!
And what a great idea! When Evie was younger, she couldn’t have cow’s milk or soy ANYTHING, so I used to make her pancakes with breast milk. Maybe I should have used some of the weird fake-formula stuff her GI gave us!
*sighs* oh drs and their crazy advice…lol. what are they thinking?
super creative but i will take your word for it- that stuff smells weird! LOL!
Sweet pea looks like quite the chef too!!
I had a dr insist I needed formula to supplement my breastfeeding with Bug, my second child. What a idiot. I was still nursing my son also at that point so trust me …I had plenty of milk
we switched drs too!
Love the pancake idea. Any thoughts on the swine flu and flu vaccines for the kids? i am on the fence about to give ..or not to give.
How very creative-and a great way to not “waste” it. I agree though-good thing to get a new doctor. Shocking that one didn’t know the first thing about getting your milk going!
*applause*