first and second stage formula

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bitzermaloney · 19/04/2007 10:42

Ds (8 months, bf) now goes to a childminder three days a week and has two 7oz bottles while he's there - my plan was to make these both ebm but I'm not managing to express enough so lately one of the bottles has been Aptimil.

I have seen people on here say that the formula for 6+ months is 'just marketing' and no better than the first milk... so my question is - does it make any difference which he has? Both are the same price... are there ANY benefits to using the 6+ months stuff?

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mumto3girls · 19/04/2007 10:43

No..it just lays heavier on their tummys and is harder to digest.

Seona1973 · 20/04/2007 10:58

I think you are thinking of hungry milk mumto3girls. What bitzermaloney is probably talking about is the follow on milk - it is fairly similar to the first milk and has extra iron/vitamins but the extra iron can be constipating.

I tried my ds with it but he was more unsettled and I went back to the milk I was already using (aptamil extra). The first milks are fine to use for the first year anyway so there is no need to swap if your lo is happy on it. I was swapping as it is a bit cheaper but wouldnt stick to it if ds wasnt happy on it.

mumto3girls · 20/04/2007 13:19

Oh I see - well I bf for a year and then put dd3 on aptamil follow on stuff...she still drinks it....I know alot of peopek think it is a waste of money, but she likes it and i like knowing it's always fresh when i make it, not like milk that may have been open in the fridge a few days...

MrsBadger · 20/04/2007 13:22

'fresh' as in made with powder from a tin that's been open for a week?

MrsBadger · 20/04/2007 13:23

sorry, that was unneccesarily mean

do ignore me, am having a rubbish day.

mumto3girls · 20/04/2007 13:32

Mrs Badger thats okay..I know its a strange definition of fresh, I guess because i don't like milk at all myself and therefore never drink it, I'm not into regularly buying full fat stuff ( my older girls drink s/skimmed) and i often find the stuff i've bought to make her porridge etc has gone off with more than half the bottle left.

Plus it is in an air tight container

Mum2FunkyDude · 20/04/2007 13:36

Hi, my ds is nearly 17 months and is still on the follow on Aptimil, he is totally fine on it, you can give first milk to an older baby, but not follow on to a younger baby, iyswim. The aptimil follow on offers more iron. Ds hates cows milk and it costs 2p per bottle cheaper than fresh milk so there is no cost myth about it.

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bitzermaloney · 20/04/2007 17:41

Thanks for all the replies... he seems to get on OK with the first milk so I'll stick with that.

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mangojuice · 21/04/2007 21:22

I swapped my daughter onto Aptamil follow on milk at about 10 months simply because Asda had run out of the Aptamil first milk that week. I couldn't see any reason to change her off what she was used to, but I found that when I did swap, her appetite for solids increased drastically.

This was a real benefit as she would barely eat a thing until that point.

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