Follow on milk - any advantage at all?

[EyeballsintheSky]

I know the answer to this really...

DD is nearly 10.5 months so getting myself used to the idea of a formula free life in January (hurrah!). I'm not BF so it's over to cows' milk unless there is any good reason at all why follow on milk has an advantage, which I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

Any thoughts?

Nope. Stick with what you know. It's just a clever marketing ploy.

Thought so, thanks. Oh the joy of being able to buy a pint of milk in the supermarket and pour it into a cup!

No. "Growing up milk" or similar were invented solely to extend the period that people buy formula-type products. I really, really object to them due to the way they emphasise added vitamins and minerals and insinuate that without them your child won't have "a balanced diet", exploiting the worries about food/diet that many of us have on some level.

I think of it this way: organic, full fat pasteurised cow's or goat's milk versus a processed, sweetened, artificially fortified drink?

When you put it like that...

I did use follow on from 9 months till 1 year but thats because it was cheaper than the first milk.

Oh I'm just starting to use it now because I forgot that DD has been on hungry milk since about 4 months and it occurred to me that it might have something to do with her lack of appetite! Faced with the choice I thought I might as well go forwards to third milk as back to first but I'll stop when she's 12 months.