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Infant feeding

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Original poster

follow-on milk????!!!

17 replies

CheekyGirl · 14/12/2005 21:59

My ds is almost a year old and is bf. I have recently introduced a bottle of formula at bedtime, and I'm using C&G 'Growing Up Milk', but he seems to be quite unsettled and I'm wondering whether the type of formula is to blame.

Is there a type of follow-on formula that is known to be easily digestible?

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feastofsteven · 14/12/2005 22:02

I wouldn't bother with using follow-on at all. I think they all tend to be a bit "stodgier" than infant milks. If you really want to use formula, rather than just introducing cows milk, I would go for an infant milk (0 - 6 month) milk rather than follow-on.

pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 14/12/2005 22:03

follow on milk is a marketing con... if your child is near one about cows milk or goat milk?

NotQuiteCockney · 14/12/2005 22:04

At nearly a year, I'd be using a cup of cow's milk. And maybe not giving it at bedtime, but at a different time, so that if it's a bit tricky on the stomach, he's not having problems getting to sleep?

(Follow-on is a scam, it's just formula with added iron, that doesn't get digested, so they can advertise it.)

moondog · 14/12/2005 22:07

Just have to say it again-follow on milk is
marketing bullshit.

Regular milk will be fine-mine didn't ever even have that.Water sufficed.

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CheekyGirl · 14/12/2005 22:22

Interesting!! We tried cow's milk and he absolutely refused it. He seems to like the taste of formula (God knows why - horrible stuff!!)

It's just that I read that follow on milks have the same nutrients as infant formula but more densely packed or something so that they needed a lower volume, iyswim.

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moondog · 14/12/2005 22:23

Don't swallow the guff cheeky.Follow on only invented recently to promote brand awareness as formula advertising is illegal.
Puts it in a different light eh???

pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 15/12/2005 08:40

Try fresh goat milk, easily digested... or failing that your child will be like many others - hates milk.... mine do not drink the white stuff at all, they have other ways to get calcium in.

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CheekyGirl · 15/12/2005 22:18

Thinking about goat's milk, but doesn't it taste funny?

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pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 15/12/2005 22:19

Well I just started on it myself... and well... NO NOT AT ALL!!! To my own surprise I have to say!

hunkermunker · 15/12/2005 22:21

So does formula to adults, CG - give it a go, he might like it.

(And would second, third and fourth the stuff about follow-on not being necessary).

Or try mixing infant formula (not follow-on) and cows milk and gradually increasing the cows milk till there's no formula in it?

mazzystar · 15/12/2005 22:24

bit of hijack so sorry....

anyone know whether soya milk is ok - nutritionally i mean..?

gave ds some in an emergency the other week and he seemed to like it.

feastofsteven · 15/12/2005 22:24

I think it's not quite as good nutritionally as cow's milk, so best not to give it as main type of milk unless recommended by doctor.

pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 15/12/2005 22:30

Well I read the opposite recently from a nutritionist!
I am not talking formula out of goat's milk but regular "milk",
This is what I read recently :
Some young children with eczema and other allergies may do better with goat?s milk formula than cow?s milk or soya milk products, as goat?s milk is much closer in molecular structure to mother?s milk. These formulas are also higher in essential fatty acids than cow?s milk formulas.

The mineral content of both milks is generally similar, although goat?s contains slightly less calcium and slightly more vitamin A, potassium and selenium, which is an antioxidant.

from \link{http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8126-1902079,00.html\here)

feastofsteven · 15/12/2005 22:30

pupuce - my comment was wrt soya milk, not goats!!!

pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 15/12/2005 22:31

Sorry
Soya is full of sugar.... I would not use it...

mazzystar · 15/12/2005 23:02

the unsweetened type isn't.

just thought it might be less mucous-inducing in these times of colds and snotty noses

msut also add goat's milk vg.

tiktok · 17/12/2005 11:20

soya formula is full of sugar though, mazzy, and it's one reason why it's not recommended unless a baby absolutely has to have it 'cos of not being able to take anything else (there are case studies of babies whose teeth have decayed as a result of drinking soya formula).

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