We were supplied a package of milk powder and a package of rice cereal to mix together. We were told this was our children's diet. (Most of our girls were around 14 mos.)

My daughter and the other two in our travel group were on milk-based formula. We were able to find out from the orphanage - via our agency, that they were on milk-based before we traveled. They were 8-10 months old. They liked their bottles very hot.  I mixed Collette's with rice cereal.

We were in China in January 2000, and our daughter was on a powdered milk formula, mixed with rice cereal (and a bit of sugar)

Emily was 25 mos. when adopted on 2-23-98. I did take a soy based powdered formula not knowing for sure if she would still take a bottle. They still had her on a bottle but she only took one bottle of formula for me - the day of the adoption. I mixed the formula I took with powdered formula purchased at the govt dept store in Hefei. The formula purchased in Hefei was a USA brand name, but right now I can't think what it was. I know I was amazed to find a US name product like that there - it was like Gerber or Carnation, something very recognizable.

Amy was adopted on 6/24/96. She was 5 months old. We were told she was on a mixture of hot milk and cereal.

Our baby was 19 months old when we picked her up in October 1998. She was not on formula but we gave her formula anyway which she enjoyed (Enfamil in the lavender can mixed with cereal) through a bottle. She had a full bottle and a full meal, whatever she could manage to chew. She did enjoy the rice soups.

I went to China 12/97. My daughter was on whole milk and ate all foods.  She was eighteen months at the time.

In January 1998, all of the girls in our group, and presumably in the orphanage, were fed milk formula mixed with rice cereal. The orphanage and/or our agency gave each family a bag of Heinz milk formula. As far as we know our daughter is not lactose-intolerant.  It is a common belief that almost all Chinese people are lactose-intolerant.  This is not true.  Some parents adopting from China (or anywhere in the world) may bring soy formula just in case the child is allergic to milk.  Few very young children are lactose-intolerant (we are all mammals).  But some may be allergic to milk protein (as I was as an infant). This is a completely different issue.

Laura was 13 months old and was on "Yi Yi milk powder for babies". She took it straight, with rice cereal, hot, or cold. She mixed it with anything else that she could get!  I put her on regular whole milk when we got home.

We gave Noémie (7 months) Soy formula. She didn't like it at first but it was because it wasn't hot enough, she was used to almost boiling hot milk. Our thermos was very useful.

Katie was on cow's milk formula.  It was a yellow and green foil package with a black and white cow on the front.  It was powdered.  She was born May 18, 1996 and adopted April 10, 1997.

All of the babies (6) in the 4/17/2000 travel group with CHI were on a milk based formula in a packet called "Milk"; we were able to purchase additional supplies of the formula at the department store in Hefei.  I'm sure the formula has a a Chinese name, but I never asked for a translation.