Growing up milk - does it help them sleep?

[champagnesupernova]

Er, that's it really. Am slowly weaning ds2 off the boob and he's nearly ready for cow's milk as he's 11 months but still a bugger difficult in the night.

He's on solids and GENERALLY eats well
Seen lots of ads for growing up milk and am wondering if it would help him sleep.
TIA
PS Please don't flame me if this is an issue akin to grapes in the supermarket/P&C carparking thing that I don't know about

[vincentvangogh]

I've never heard that it makes a difference sleep-wise.

I used growing up milk with DS1 because I thought I had to, once he'd been weaned at 15m. Then I realised I was just buying very, very expensive vitamin-enriched cow's milk and he'd be fine with the normal stuff and fortified breakfast cereals.

I haven't used the stuff with either of the other two kids. If you want to get more dairy into your lo why not give him yoghurt?

[Angel786]

My dd uses the growing milk. She sleeps through from 8-8 but she only started to sleep through as I weaned her off bf (at 8.5 months)... She generally showed a lot less interest in milk since solids.

Not sure the two are synonomous as all babies are different etc etc.

[RitaMorgan]

At almost a year, his sleep is unlikely to me linked to the kind of milk he drinks.

[RightUpMyRue]

Plenty of studies have been done that conclude there is no correlation between the milk a baby drinks and how it sleeps.

Follow-on milk is completely unecessary for nutrition and some babies get constipated on it because of the high iron levels.

It would be nice and convenient if we could give a cup of milk and it would act as a sort of sedative but it just doesn't.

[Islandgirllk]

A total waste of money in my opinion. Once over a year go straight to full-fat fresh cows milk to drink if baby is not being breast fed. Buy one and taste it yourself, it's disgusting , over sweet and has a strange texture.

[organiccarrotcake]

'tis true, sadly. The only milk that has been shown to have a sleep effect is breastmilk because of the oxytocin effect. And this doesn't affect night waking - just getting back to sleep (although it helps both mum and baby drift off which is useful).

[EauRouge]

Yep, sorry, there is nothing to show that it will make a difference.

Try nicking some grapes from the supermarket, that might do it

[wigglesrock]

I have formula fed 3 dds and the type of formula, growing up milk etc has not made a blind bit of difference to their sleep - I speak from bitter experience .