to ask what the point of 2+ formula milk

[BlissfulMistletoe]

i can understand special milk for children with special needs.

but for an average 2 year old, what is the point

What lady said

1+ formula is the same.

To get the easily led to part with their money.

Unless there are dietary issues (which if they are so serious then surely the family should be getting proffessional help) I struggle to see the need for 1 plus let alone 2 plus formula!

Yes it is a marketing persons idea of something totally unnecessary to sell to parents aka walking wallets

increase the market

I see I am not alone in this opinion

There's probably a genuine need for it in the case of extremely fussy eaters, but otherwise it's just an excuse to guilt-trip first-time mums into handing over unnecessary cash.

I thought that moving on 1+ milk was a massive con, I didn't realise they make 2+.

to part money from parents daft enough to buy it!

No! I have never understood this.

I am a bit about 1+ as I think there is no need, but I've never used formula so could be wrong about that.

But 2+?! wtf is that about?! What a con!

I remember some time ago there was a similar thread about the point of these toddler milks with added vitamins, and loads of people said that they gave them to their children so they could be sure they were getting enough vitamins, and because they were easy when they were out and about with their children. No doubt this is precisely what the manufacturers would have them think.

Agree with all the posters above about toddler formula being nothing but a marketing gimmick.

Sorry this is slightly off topic but isn't there a need for 1+ formula? I bf (15mo) but I'd of assumed that most toddlers his age get a milky drink at bedtime?

Yes Gracie, but most have cows milk

From 12 months children can have around 350ml of full fat cow's milk a day.

Actually, even follow-on milk from 6 months is unnecessary - it's just marketing. First milk is all they need til 12 months.

gracie......my son 5 don't get any drinks after 6pm otherwise he will wet the bed, and my DD 2 also as her nappy will be soaking in the morning

As soon as Ds was 1 he moved to cows milk. I don't see the need to keep the formula

Yes, Graciescotland they do, fresh milk one.

I use the 1+ milk. DS2 has had relux and a strong gag so it has taken him until now not to vomit all the time. So i think I've carried on with formula because I was worried he wasn't getting enough from his diet. But I guess I may be being had. I guess its time to think about cows milk.

We went to formula to supplement my dwindling milk supply when I was pg with #2 - ds1 was 11mo then and I wasn't totally sure about starting him right onto whole milk. So 1+ formula filled a gap for us until he self-weaned at 13mo and then I gradually introduced whole milk over about another month. 2+ is a money-making scam IMO.

there is no point.

It's a bit grim giving children reconstituted dried sweetened milk powder when there is no way adults would drink it.

I EBF'd my DS to 15 months. Since then, he WILL NOT drink cows milk (not allergic, just doesn't like it), but he WILL drink 1+ formula. Go figure. I'm afraid for the sake of the vitamins etc. we have given in to the formula.

What a load of crap. Personally I think that not only 1+ milk and 2+ milk is a con but the bloody recommendations they still put on the packets. Thankfully I had someone advising me with a common sense approach when it came time to stop breast feeding!

Ah of course cows milk. Sorry am clearly too tired to think these things through...