Interesting... I used concentrate once for a plane trip, but otherwise used those little single-use powder containers thereafter. I used to shake up the bottles seriously to make sure all the powder dissolved. Of course that equals bubbles, but if I made several bottles in advance it settled in time. Out here, concentrate is so much more expensive than powder that we chose the latter; but, I can see how the former would be great for those who can swing it!

 

You think the soy formula is weird? Try the actual soy milk! My son was never able to switch to regular milk, so he gets the store bought soy milk in his little sippy cups (hes 20 months)and the little bit at the bottom that gets left, if not washed out right away, turns into this thick mudslide goo stuff. And yes, the formula is weird too, but regular milk at least chunks up, soy just turns to sludge.

 

Karianna: Yes, the concentrate is more expensive here too!

Jessie: I try to drink a little soy milk when I have bad cramps (a friend suggested it and it does actually seem to help me), but as the carton starts to empty, it gets sludgy at the bottom and that's with it coming straight from fridge and being drunk in under a minute.

Samantha: That's such a good point about premies. In fact this is what I pulled off of the Enfamil site :
"However, powdered infant formulas cannot be made commercially sterile and should not be fed to premature infants or infants with immune problems." (http://www.enfamil.com/app/iwp/Content4.do?dm=enf&id=-8791)