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Follow -on milk and puking??

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deaconblue · 18/11/2006 20:12

Ds is sooooo pukey at the moment. I thought it was cheese or yoghurt so have cut both but I still ended up covered in projectile vom this afternoon. So am wondering if it's because I've moved him onto the follow on milk now that he's 7 months. He was only on the first formula for a month as I breast fed til 6 months. Has anyone else found this?

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lulumama · 18/11/2006 20:14

shouldn't be the milk........has he a bug...

DD had lots of puking & diaorrhea and turned out she had gastroenteritis.which can lead to a temporary milk intolerance

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flopflip · 18/11/2006 20:15

Mums friens a health visitor and she says no need to go to follow on milk, just stick with first formula.

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winestein · 18/11/2006 20:16

follow on milk is just a marketing gimmick. I would just give first milk. The projectile vom could well be a bug.

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deaconblue · 18/11/2006 20:20

I don't think it's a bug as he's been doing it on and off for three weeks - just once or twice a week, so I'm pretty sure it's food related. Hadn't done it since Monday when I tried a yoghurt but did it today. Interfering mum says its coz I give him too much to eat but this doesn't seem like overflow, more like a reaction to something. Will put him back on number one and see what happens. What with snot, drool and puke I'm a far-from-yummy-mummy at the mo!

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DizzyBint · 18/11/2006 20:21

yes, what the others said. formula companies aren't allowed to advertise formula for babies under 6 months so they make follow on milk for babies over 6 months so that they have something to advertise.

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deaconblue · 18/11/2006 20:24

aha you see I was swayed by the "extra iron" label on the packaging. Mind you I also have tonnes of the "no junk promise" finger foods in my cupboard too - I am the marketting man's dream.

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flopflip · 18/11/2006 20:33

Ah but the no junk things are also tasty for mummies too, so they are ok

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Mum2FunkyDude · 18/11/2006 20:37

follow on is cheaper though.

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deaconblue · 19/11/2006 19:58

WE've had a no puke day today and he's back on number one milk, so I think that might be it. Flop Flip I am really partial to the carroty wozsit thingies, poor ds doesn't get a look in with his own finger foods.