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"Good Night Milk"?????????

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TiddlerTiddler · 08/03/2008 19:45

Has anyone tried this new milk that is being marketed by C&G and Hipp?

I know that its just a)marketing wheeze and b) formula with starches / oats stuff addded to make it thicker

BUT....

Does it make a difference in anyone's experience???

I am desperate to get LO to sleep better and am thinking about giving it. He is 9 months and has been excl BF until recently but now giving last feed as regular formula. I am not normally such a sucker for this kind of marketing stuff, but am at the end of my rope due to lack of sleep and will try anything.

I am holding off so far because am worried about making him constipated by giving him thicker feed (but maybe now he is well into solids thats irrelevant?) but also because I feel such a sucker for playing into the company's hands because I know they only created this stuff to take advantage of sleep deprived mums like me!

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candyy · 08/03/2008 20:55

If you think it'll do the trick then go for it!

If you are worried about his constipation you could always try giving him a little pureed prune with his cereal in the morning.

gemmummy · 08/03/2008 20:58

hey, i'd say try it. like candy said, prune in morning would combat constipation, although i doubt lo would even get it. if they were bad for babies, you wouldn't be allowed to buy them. i've been using sma white and my ds has had no ill effects at all. he was mixed fed til 5 months.

kiskideesameanoldmother · 08/03/2008 21:01

you can try it but prepare yourself that it probably may not work. waking up is not just about hunger, it is also about comfort, reassurance and an establish sleep cycle pattern. the only thing that got me more sleep at the end was co-sleeping - though it wasn't around at the time and dd wouldn't probably taken it anyway. she never took formula

pelafina · 08/03/2008 21:04

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candyy · 08/03/2008 21:11

hee hee I love all these different opinions!

fishie · 08/03/2008 21:11

tiddler if he is hungry you can just give him some food or more bm.

it makes me very sad and angry to see how the formula company has managed to shake your confidence after NINE MONTHS breastfeeding.

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TiddlerTiddler · 08/03/2008 21:38

mmmm maybe its more comfort reassurance, sleep pattern.. or teeth..??? rather than hunger... he is just waking... I don't think he is that hungry at all. But I am game for anything right now!

i guess the question is why... if he is not waking from hunger why am I thinking of buying extra hungry milk

desperation... thats why!

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TiddlerTiddler · 08/03/2008 21:43

Maybe one day, they will make a milk with a sedative in it ha ha .

I am joking by the way.

I am actually reading the no cry sleep solution at the moment, maybe I will go for that before the "magic" milk.

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Walnutshell · 08/03/2008 21:49

How sleep deprived are you> Do you get support? I have a bf 2yo and am being woken in the night because he wants to climb in, feed and then sleep. Makes me more tired than if I had a straight 8-hours, but do I expect that? Should I?

Biccy · 08/03/2008 22:12

No Cry Sleep Solution is great... dd didn't sleep through once before 10 months and whenever I got desperate I read some of this book; just reading it made me feel better... she also says somewhere in there that it takes 40 weeks for babies to establish a diurnal sleep pattern - so you might be almost there!

carrielou2007 · 08/03/2008 22:37

As a hardened my daughter is not having that cow's milk muck to ok we are backing away from the boob now I bought some of this milk this week and have been stunned at the results.

My BF daughter has not woken once in the night since using this for bedtime feed for the last week. She is 14 months and BF but felt the time had come to stop. Started using formula a few weeks ago for this feed and found no difference to how much she wakes at night. However this has been great!

moondog · 08/03/2008 23:27

A baby has no need of formula at 14 mths.Regular milk will do fine if you are not breastfeeding (actually at this age,my child had no milk of any sort at all).
You'll save your cash too-formula is seven times more expensive than regular milk.

carrielou2007 · 09/03/2008 21:20

Actually you are not quite right as a 14 month baby does need a certain amount of milk a day (about 12-16 fl oz) though not just as a drink, to be used in cooking, with cereal, etc.

I have tried every sort of formula milk and fresh milk (including my local lovely organic farm shop) but my daughter just point blank refuses it. Then no wonder, she has only been used to milk specifically made for babies not baby cows so it will take a while for her to get used to it!

Cost has nothing to do with it, BF is best so that is why we did it even expressing when I am at work.

andyrobo237 · 09/03/2008 21:38

I have tried this night time milk and can say t made no differense to Ds who is now 1 = he sleeps no better - starts out ok but ends up in our bed by 5 to 5.30am - not ideal but we get some sleep!

latchmeregirl · 09/03/2008 21:44

Tiddler, are you in fact me ? My 9mo ds has never slept through, is BF (though has the occasional bottle of formula when I'm not around) and I too am going through the same thought processes re the C&G stuff. Like you, I don't normally believe the hype but if one bottle before bed = 6 hours sleep, I'd give that a go right now. I'm really pleased we've got this far bfing, but it's starting to get me down and I am going crazy from lack of sleep. You have my deepest sympathy.

morocco · 09/03/2008 22:24

hang on in there with the bf, their sleep patterns change pretty soon and one day soon you'll wake up amazed you've slept through. dd regularly woke up to 7 or 8 times a night for a quick feed but she's 11 months now and all of a sudden is sleeping the whole night. just keep on with the whole co sleeping/feeding lying down thing to get a restful night in the meantime

AlistairSim · 09/03/2008 22:39

Unless it's actually laced with diazepam, I doubt it will make any difference.

latchmeregirl · 10/03/2008 10:02

This thing about their sleep patterns changing at 10 months or thereabouts is interesting - with my daughter, who was a terrible sleeper, we had a marked improvement at around 11 months, when she suddenly went from waking several times a night for long periods to sleeping through from 7 to 7. I attributed it to some changes we made to her bedtime routine, but perhaps it was her, not us after all. I'd be really interested in any links that anyone can provide on this - dh is ready to start sleep boot camp for ds, and if I can persuade him to hold off for a month or so in the expectation that things will improve, I'd like to.

Bodkin · 10/03/2008 20:31

I tried it (sucker) and it made not a blind bit of difference, however, she did seem to like it and I thought it tasted far nicer than just plain stinky cabbagey old formula, so I didn't feel completely mugged...

Walnutshell · 11/03/2008 19:38

Carrie - think moondog was referring to formula at that age.

Walnutshell · 11/03/2008 19:39

Why does formula smell cabbagey anyway?!

kaa0901 · 11/03/2008 21:44

well we tried it with DS last night and he slept from 7pm til 2.30am which is a first! he has had it again tonight and is sound asleep. he is hungry when he wakes (usually at midnight and then again about 4am) downing 6ozs a time.

i know part of sleeping though is the whole pattern thing but hopefully by not being hungry he will sleep for longer - i know its not a reassurance thing as he never gets picked up for a feed. we just give him a bottle and once he's finished he just goes straight back to sleep

Washersaurus · 11/03/2008 22:01

I doubt this new formula makes any difference at all to sleep, but can understand why someone would want to try it. It makes me sad to see how the formula companies find new ways to prey on sleep deprived parents in order to obtain their cash.

I honestly would not consider using it (and my DS2 (7mo) hasn't sleep during the night since birth).

colditz · 11/03/2008 22:08

carrielou2007

Babies of 14 months old do NOT need formula, you are either misinformed (I hope) or working for a formula company (I am beginning to suspect).

Healthy babies of 14 months old will do as well on cows milk straight from the fridge if you don't want to breast feed. 'Growing up milk' isn't even milk. It's a milk based vanilla flavoured milkshake. How is that better than cow juice straight from the cow? Vitamins are just as good from a vitamin supplement as from a vitamin supplement added to a milkshake!

Washersaurus · 11/03/2008 22:12

Well said colditz!

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