@etolkk123 No nutritional value?? How’s that even make sense? Lol. It’s not water, nor is it just plain milk. It is nutritionally complete, made in attempt to mirror breastmilk (which.. what’s in breastmilk is obviously no mistake).
A baby is more likely to end up anemic from being EBF, funny enough. Formula has a 1mg minimum requirement per 100 calories, and most go over that.
After 1 is when their main nutrients are meant to come from solid food, before then it’s about learning how to eat the solid food.
If formula was not nutritionally complete, babies wouldn’t be surviving lol. Like so serious, there would be a lot of dead babies from malnutrition. Pick up a can of formula, read the labels, look up minerals, fats, vitamins etc. that babies need to survive, and you’ll see formula has all of it.
He may just be trying to shame you. And it is absolutely ridiculous someone like that would be a pediatrician.
I’m so sorry. You’re doing nothing wrong, and everything you thought is absolutely correct.