follow on milk or milk for hungy babies??

[nearlymumofone]

Have finally managed to get DS (6 months) to take a bottle of formula (touching wood all around me), and am weaning off me (he's about 2/3 ff at the moment). I have been using Aptimel first milk cartons, and he has been on solids now for 4-5 weeks, but he's still waking every 2-3 hours (and sometimes more!) during the night to feed (from me I- I haven't dropped my night BF that's the last to go), should I move him onto a follow on milk or a milk for hungry babies? or neither? I'm a real formula novice and he's only actually had cartons so far. DS was EBF till 5 months.

Stick with the first milk. Hungry baby is just made harder to digest, and follow-on is a marketing gimmick. First milk is all they need til 12 months and then they can have cow's milk.

Agree with Moon totally.

thank you!

Do you think that increasing his calorie intake during the day would help?

Exactly as moon says. I had the same question after I stopped BF my DD. HV told me that 'follow on' milk was purely to get around legislation which stops the advertising of formula for babies, and nutritionally inferior to first milk. Bizarrely, also contains less calories..(perhaps so that your baby will need more, and hence more will be sold?). On an aside- although I BF'd for 6 months, I really felt that information on FF such as the above should be made more readily available. I only found out the info above after hassling the HV for some answers! In short- stick with first milk all the way!

Thanks for all the advice.

Jilted- how's best to do this? through more solids? He seems to love solids and he always seems to want more than I will give him. I am worried if I up his solids he won't take enough milk- he has a very fragile relationship with milk feeding- never fed well while bf and now on formula he often only takes 4-5 ounces at a feed.

nearly not sure really as you know him best. If he has small ff, could you give those more often.

How are you weaning? Are you using BLW, purees or a mixture?