Public concerns also remains over milk products, after a high-profile scandal involving the use of melamine in baby milk formula.
The strongest sales growth in recent years in China has been for baby products such as diapers (42% last year), diaper wipes (34%), baby milk formula (nearly 26%) and baby cereal (22%).
Women who return to work can continue to breastfeed at night and in the morning while giving their baby formula milk during the day.
This division is focused on making baby formula and milk products for older children and teenagers, such as Prenagen, Morinaga, Entrasol and Diabetasol.
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The exceptions were breast milk, baby formula, and prescription medicine.
The limit for milk, baby food and infant formula is 50 becquerels per kilogram.
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They often, for example, experience difficulty weaning babies onto formula milk once the baby is used to breast milk and they have to go back to work.
Many mothers value fathers doing night feeds with formula milk to relieve tiredness and share baby care.
More sleep: Formula milk is more difficult to digest for the baby so they tend to sleep longer.
At baby showers in America, expectant mothers coo over cute onesies, baby sunglasses and cuddly toys, in China the most valued gift is imported milk formula.
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For some infants, a milk allergy can't be missed - as soon as the baby has infant formula he develops hives and swelling, but for others the reaction is delayed and causes chronic symptoms.
Fresh human milk, irrespective of whether it came from a mother who had given birth to a premature or a term baby, had the highest antioxidant capacity of any of the samples, and significantly more than formula milk.
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