Breastfeeding 8 month old

[wonderwall101]

Sorry for posting here, wasn't sure where to post. After some advice, 8 month old EBF currently but I am due to return to work September time. So DD needs to go onto formula.

My question is do I use the first milk formula or the follow on milk, which I have read and been told is a con.

Just wondering what other mums have done. (Don't want to express)

my HV said just use the first milk - my DS wouldn't take formula (little bugger) so I expressed and put a little bit of formula in then gradually increased the formula:breastmilk ratio till he was drinking mostly formula. (By which time he could drink cows milk anyway!)

Follow on milk is formula companies attempt to get around marketing restrictions. The NHS advise that it's unnecessary and normal infant formula is fine.

Also in a months time (depending on your DCs appetite) you might find she is hardly needing much milk during the day - morning and evening feeds at home from you and then maybe one bottle of formula during the day.

My ds never did take to formula. He continued to bf evenings and before breakfast then just had normal dairy in the day. He wouldn't take a bottle so just cheese, yoghurt, porridge made with milk and cups of water and cow milk.

I went back to work when DS was 10 months and he was a bottle refuser...(and is severely allergic to dairy and the dairy free formula is vile) so he just compensated by feeding when I got home, in the night & morning- you might not need formula.
I was able to carry on feeding without expressing or leaking. Good luck!

you probably don't need to switch to formula at all. If you're not around he won't want boob, then you can have lovely booby snuggles when you reunite :-)

I was told to use newborn formula up to a year and then switch to cow's milk.

Mine wouldn't have formula and refused a bottle for a long time after I went back to work (10 months old)
She would have cows milk with vitamins added (hv suggested this)

First milk.

And I swapped to formula that around that age.
It was actually fine, I swapped a feed at a time, starting with the bedtime feed, then the last to go was the middle of the night one. I found that swapping gradually meant I didn't have any engorgement issues (tried to go cold turkey at one point and thought my boobs were going to explode!)

But also you can bf morning and evening if you want to keep it going.

What's the difference between the From Birth formula and Follow-on?

My first was fine at 8 months with nothing. My second had a bit of formula in a cup at 12 o'clock to tide him over. Just a suggestion to give it in a beaker rather than a bottle. Just no point introducing a regular bottle at that age. At least you'll only have the boob to wean them off at a later stage.

I think the difference between the 0+ and 6m+ formula is a bit of iron. 6m+ formula was invented when the ban against advertising formula for newborns cane about. So they can advertise a baby formula but it being brand awareness of their newborn products.

But it BRINGS brand awareness. Sorry. Wine.

Can you express? My dd was ebf. I went back to work at 9 months. I expressed in my lunch break, and also at weekends to stock up in the freezer. I fed her mornings, during night and bedtime. We carried on day time feeds on weekends and my days off. I sent expressed milk to nursery with some formula sometimes. At 12 months I stopped expressing, she carried on morning, bedtime and night feeds.

Thank you everyone for replying. I do plan to still do a morning feed and when I return from work. I am concerned about in between. She barely eats any food, very fussy. I don't believe in the if she is hungry then she will eat 😔. She also doesn't like other people. Still cries at people she has seen since birth.