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

[TiddlerTiddler]

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!

I have a feeling the research I read about to do with the age a baby's sleep pattern changes was by William Sears. How about this for encouragement on the night waking front: www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070200.asp - lots of good stuff about how babies sleep lightly for good reasons to do with their safety and development and how mostly it depends on your baby's temperament and not how you parent during the night.

I definitely think it has to be about the individual temperament as we haven't done anything particuarly different with no.2 vs no.1 and the sleeping pattern is radically different.

I am trying to be patient. But I am doing all the getting up myself (DH seems to be deaf in the middle of the night ) and have done since day 1 which is why 9 months in, its starting to get me down.

repeat after me... "it will change...he WILL sleep.........soon"!

I will read the dr.sears link tomorrow. thanks.

Ds2 slept through at 11 months. D s1 (who by rights should have been much less likely to sleep, given the stressy atmos at home) slept through at 10 weeks, 8 - 8!)

Colditz I am a single working mum but I am an audiologist not work for a formula company!!! I was replying to the earlier post saying a 14 month does not need milk at all - not formula!!! I think that the poster must have meant this rather than a 14 month does not need any milk at all which is what it actually said so hope that is what was meant as milk certainly is needed!!! I just keep trying my dd with cows milk and certainly am not prefering formula to cows milk which of course is the next alternative to human milk but hey ho I'm just a hard working single mum trying to do the best for my daughter not get told off on MN so I'm off to work now!!

What was actually said:

moondog: "A baby has no need of formula at 14 mths. Regular milk will do fine ..."

So in fact we are all in agreement. Jolly good!

I haven't seen or heard of this, surely it is akin to hungry baby formula or toddler formula and just a way to sell more?

FWIW this kind of stuff has been used for years in Sweden - it's called valling - I think it's used fairly extensively over there.

I used valling with DS and it helped him settle, but didn't stop him waking in the night.

Devil - it seems to be follow on milk with starches (or in the case of HIPP oats too) in it to thicken it up.

I guess its like what our mothers used to be by putting babyrice in the bottles (but safer I hope!)

But in essence, you are right... all neatly packaged and marketed to target sleepless mums as a potential magic answer. Which is what I find so irritating that I was falling for! I feel like a sucker!!!

I think squiffy is right - may help to settle but if underlying waking issue is temperment, developmental stage, teething, just needing to be close to mum etc. Magic milk ain't gonna fix that!