Baby formula
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Very common, although not that cheap. Have you not noticed the hundreds of stores literally everywhere that seem to sell nothing but baby formula and nappies? They stack them there tins from the floor to ceiling.
Beggars like it in siem reap too.
Beggars like it in siem reap too.
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Nestlé and other baby formula companies run ruthless marketing here, including inside maternity wards, so it's not at all unusual here. It's also appears to be damn expensive.FatherTime wrote:Do Cambodians ever use baby formula, or is this a really bizarre concept to them?
baby formula is huge. everyone in phnom penh i know uses them. i'm guessing, its one of the reasons why all the kids are so big now.
I thought a large number of people in Phnom Penh used formula, not sure about the countryside.
I used Similac Total Comfort for my son before moving to regular milk. I seem to recall the ages were silly on the tins, as in if you followed the Similac instructions your kid would be having it until he was well beyond the age where it is reasonable to have it.
I used Similac Total Comfort for my son before moving to regular milk. I seem to recall the ages were silly on the tins, as in if you followed the Similac instructions your kid would be having it until he was well beyond the age where it is reasonable to have it.
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As above, it's a huge thing here, and has been for quite some time. There's even a little-known market called "Psah Dumex" after a baby formula factory that existed in that area pre 1975. As in many developing countries the various companies like Nestle/ Abbot etc market their brands heavily and offer free samples to new mothers. They have often been accused of encouraging new mothers to forgo natural breastfeeding in favor of using their formulas. The formulas are often marketed as IQ+ or whatever nonsense they want to claim for their product.
I'm not trying to say these products are intrinsically bad, they have their place. My son had to be brought up on formula due to some complications his mother had. It was Similac or something like that, made by Abbot in Ireland, which made me laugh. It was a decade ago but I remember that stuff not being too cheap. Even small tins were $15- $25. I wondered for a long time what happened to families who couldn't afford that $50 or so a week.
What happens is that they just make do. So they might even buy a can of formula, but stretch it out. What's more likely is that the kid will get canned or condensed milk (which rarely has anything dairy-related in it) or rice-soup, maybe a porridge type of thing with a little bit of fish in it.
So these baby formulas are widely available, I just don't see how they are affordable to so many people. There are ministries and organizations working to encourage women to breast-feed, for many years these companies tried to make it seem primitive and old fashioned.
I'm not trying to say these products are intrinsically bad, they have their place. My son had to be brought up on formula due to some complications his mother had. It was Similac or something like that, made by Abbot in Ireland, which made me laugh. It was a decade ago but I remember that stuff not being too cheap. Even small tins were $15- $25. I wondered for a long time what happened to families who couldn't afford that $50 or so a week.
What happens is that they just make do. So they might even buy a can of formula, but stretch it out. What's more likely is that the kid will get canned or condensed milk (which rarely has anything dairy-related in it) or rice-soup, maybe a porridge type of thing with a little bit of fish in it.
So these baby formulas are widely available, I just don't see how they are affordable to so many people. There are ministries and organizations working to encourage women to breast-feed, for many years these companies tried to make it seem primitive and old fashioned.
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"...marketed as IQ+ or whatever nonsense they want to claim for their product."
Indeed, you see this criminally false advertising everywhere in PP. Some of it appears to suggest it will make the kid whiter too.
My gf's several sisters and sister-in-laws and the other village barbarians [just kidding, I think] all breastfeed quite openly and often joke or fool around whilst doing so.
Indeed, you see this criminally false advertising everywhere in PP. Some of it appears to suggest it will make the kid whiter too.
My gf's several sisters and sister-in-laws and the other village barbarians [just kidding, I think] all breastfeed quite openly and often joke or fool around whilst doing so.
In Australia there are various shops that offer to send baby formula type stuff directly to China.Progress i guess.
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Maybe 15 or so years ago when traveling by bus between HCMC and PP I used to see government (or perhaps NGO?) billboards in the countryside promoting breastfeeding, or so I took them as they featured a woman with her baby to breast and they were all in Khmer. At the time they were intended to counter the shameless advertising of companies promoting formula (they should be shot). I still do the trip a couple of times a year but can't recall the last time I saw one. Time for a massive education campaign perhaps? Hello do-gooder NGOs?
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The Chinese Uni students send so much back that it pays for their education and day to day living. Baby formula and cosmetics, vitamins and supplements.cumwatmae wrote:In Australia there are various shops that offer to send baby formula type stuff directly to China.Progress i guess.
The Hong Kong/mainland border has huge signs that anyone bringing more than two tins of baby formula through will get very stiff fines.
"Maybe 15 or so years ago when traveling by bus between HCMC and PP I used to see government (or perhaps NGO?) billboards in the countryside promoting breastfeeding, or so I took them as they featured a woman with her baby to breast and they were all in Khmer."
I've seen billboards of this kind at or near Kanta Botha Hospital and on government buildings on the way to the Japanese bridge. Also at/near Calmette Hosp. Unfortunately they are dull and pedantic compared to say beer billboards - certainly compared to baby formula ads. But they are there.
I've seen billboards of this kind at or near Kanta Botha Hospital and on government buildings on the way to the Japanese bridge. Also at/near Calmette Hosp. Unfortunately they are dull and pedantic compared to say beer billboards - certainly compared to baby formula ads. But they are there.
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