Some ff questions for 11month old

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Coming back to the UK with my 11 month DD for Christmas. Since we're in, well, not the safest country to buy formula, I usually buy Nan HA Gold and bring it in from Australia. I don't have enough left here to bring it to the UK.

What do I do in the UK? I'm told it's not widely available in the UK and certainly can't find any links to it on google. Do I just stick her on any old formula once I arrive? Try to stay with another HA formula? Dr recommended HA for various reasons when I switched at 7 months from bf to ff but these reasons are no longer applicable so no real reason to stay on an HA I suppose.

My other question is how do you go about stopping ff after a year? DD just has 3 bottles a day of 220ml but is starting to refuse her bedtime bottle if it is too close to dinner. Usually it's about 30 mins between them but if she gets too tired it's less. At about 12 months should I drop her lunch time bottle and then her breakfast one? Sorry if these are daft questions.

Also I know nan is owned by Nestle and therefor the devil but I didn't know about the nestle boycott until I joined MN and because I won't by formula here it was too late to do anything about it.

AFAIK nestle formula is not available in the UK. By HA do you mean hypoallergenic? Is she allergic to cows milk or have some intolerance, or did she just get on best with this milk?

There are lots of milks available for her here, first milks or follow on milks. Mostly change over to cows milk at 12months though so it wouldn't need to be a long term concern I expect.

you can buy HA formula here if you wanted to i think, but not sure which brands.

re cutting out the formula, it sounds as if your dd is alreayd starting to do that herself, wiht mine (3bfed+2ffed) i folllowed their lead, so one stopped at 18mths, then two bfed till 3yrs, then no 4 who was ffed had bottles till he was 3yrs, but basically past 18mths it was just morning and night and then the morning one stopped and he kept the bedtime bottle till he was 3yrs 5mths? when he gave it up, i gradually reduced the amount of milk so he was just having 4oz with is 120ml.

my dd is 11mths and has 4 bottles of 4oz a day at the moment, i shall carry on like that once she turns one and see how she goes, she eats very well and i am sure she will gradually cut down of her own accord over time. probalby loose the luncthime and then dinner time bottles first, keeping the morning and bedtime ones for longer.

i use hipp organic first milk, never bothered with follow on milk as there is no need.

once aged one they can have cows milk to drink, i just carried on with the formula as my first 3 were bfed and i didnt suddently switch them to cows milk at one yr, so saw no reason to do so with the formula fed ones either. some people do, cost can be an issue etc. but my ds4 was happy with his forumla so ijust carried on, it wasnt a huge expense by that point and i will do the same with my dd :)

We bought the HA because we purchased it before I gave birth as a just in case option and I thought it best to get something that was easily digestible instead of her having problems and not being able to access the HA. My Aussie Dr suggested it.

She had some stomach problems before she was on solids but seems to be all fine now.

So it won't matter if I just suddenly giver her a different formula?

Do people really just at 12 months stop giving a bottle and switch to cows milk?

Thanks for you posts. Very interesting how your DC just slowly stopped, 4mad. :)

Sorry - so there is no need for her to be on an HA formula now. It's just what we initially bought.