BF baby - should I be using formula for breakfastl?

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bohemianbint · 16/05/2007 15:28

Hello,

DS is 9 months old and fully bf (I mean he eats 3 meals a day but has never had formula.) At the moment I'm making his breakfast up with full fat cows milk (did did initially use expressed EBM but I rapidly went off doing that!) and I'm starting to wonder if I ought to be using formula for his breakfasts? Would it have more nutritional value? Or does it not make much difference at this stage? He probably only has 2-3 fairly short boob feeds these days as he's gradually got less and less interested.

Other thing is, if it is better to use formula, what's the best bet? DS is veggie so don't want fish oils and stuff in it and probably prefer it if it was organic...

Anyway, what do you think, what do you all do? Cheers!

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CantSleepWontSleep · 16/05/2007 15:31

I use rice milk with calcium, but only because dd is intolerant of cows' milk. If your ds is ok with cm then I'd carry on as you are.

Singapore · 16/05/2007 15:31

I use cows milk for breakfast with my 6.5 month old ds, but often wondered the same.

hebetalbot · 16/05/2007 15:33

I use full fat cows milk for breakfast and in cooking for my ds. Sounds like he is getting enough bf a day. Mine cut his feeds once he was eating larger amounts. You can also just go straight onto full fat cows milk as a main drink from 12 months. Much easier than mucking around with formula. My DD and DS refused to drink it! HTH

imnot27 · 16/05/2007 15:34

I think cows milk is fine, as long as it's full fat, as this has more vitamins and essential fatty acids in than semi-skimmed. If he's actually milk as a drink then formula might be best.
I used the cow and gate organic, v good!

Malaleche · 16/05/2007 15:36

I thought you were only supposed to use cows milk for cooking baby food in the first year, not to drink?
I use a soya-based formula suitable from birth from the health-food shop. But i dont give it to dd2 in a bottle, (she's just started drinking water from a sucky cup this week) just mix a bit of the powder into her purees. She's 8 mo, eating 2 or 3 veggie meals a day and still bf 5 or 6 times a day.

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bohemianbint · 16/05/2007 15:39

Cheers for feedback. Ideally I'd prefer never to give DS formula but I'm not entirely sure why this is, and I was wondering if my ideals were stopping me from doing something I should be doing. IYSWIM! Quite relieved to hear cow's milk is fine. Why is that?! Expense aside and all...

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imnot27 · 16/05/2007 15:45

Formula has loads more iron and stuff than cows milk, but as long as she has breast milk it's fine to use a little cows milk. Just that there main drink need to have more nutritional value, eg breastmilk or formula.

Gemmitygem · 16/05/2007 15:46

I also don't want to give my DS formula, I just squirt the milk by hand into his breakfast porridge!

sparkymummy · 16/05/2007 20:17

I had this dilemma to but decided that I didn't want DS to get used to the taste of breakfast cereal with formula and then risk him not liking it with cows milk when he was older so I just went with cows milk. HVs seemed to think I should express but didn't want to be bothered with it as he has loads of milk feeds still (was same HV who recommended I express into a cup and give him BM as a drink with his meals as he didn't drink loads of water... I felt that letting him have it straight from boob made more sense...lol!!)

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