...to choose follow on milk for this reason?

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Our daughter is 5 months now, weaning well (under paed advice for reflux) onto three purées and four bottles a day, plus a night feed. Aside from the reflux she is healthy and gaining weight well. Horrific napper but sleeps 6.30-6.30 with one or two small night feeds. FF from birth.

My OH brought something up the other day; MIL works for a large supermarket and thus gets 25% discount. We obviously don’t use this to buy DD’s milk atm as discounts don’t apply to first milk, but they may do to follow on milk which we could then use from 6 months.

My question is; are follow on milks nutritionally the same as first milks? Are they in some way ‘bad’ for babies? Anyone had any experience of using them and could pass on their wisdom?

Would we be terrible parents to transition onto FOM for financial reasons? We’re not poor, but I am a teacher and he is self employed, living in a very pricey area so every little helps.

We would of course only choose this IF the milks were nutritionally the same and we wouldn’t be causing our DD any problems. She’s on HiPP atm, and we would stay with this brand for continuity.

Follow on milks only exist in countries where they have laws on promoting formula before 6 months on. As I understand it, in the US (where you can advertise just about anything) they have first milk and hungry baby milk, that is it.

If you want to utilise the discount and are going to save money then yes why not and it is unlikely to do any harm, and by 12 months you're probably going to be switching to cows milk anyway (and for the love of all that is holy do not buy into that growing up milk, which is an invention by formula companies to leach money out of parents)

Anti reflux milk and prune juice (start at about 1 part to 4 parts water and increase as necessary).
It'll probably be a distant memory by the time she's 18 months.

Oh, the prune juice has to be the good stuff, Holland and Barrett sell it. Sometimes in the penny sale and freeze what you can't use in a week so it's not wasted.