Mixing Stage 1 and 2 formula in the same feed? HELP, worried myself!

[Emmanj]

Hi there,
i have a 13 week old who is perfectly healthy and gaining weight well. At her 8 week check the HV advised me to put her on Hungry baby milk as she was unsettked between feeds etc. She told me it was fine to mix the stage 1 and 2 formulas, e.g. 4 scoops of 1, 2 scoops of the other. Ive been doing this for sevevral weeks now, and gradually upping the number 2 milk.
However, when i went to clinic today they told me they hadnt heard of doing this and i should stop, and only use 1. Its now made me paranoid as ive been doing it for about 5 weeks. Please can someone help, or am i being too melodramatic??!!

It's fine.

Some babies don't like hungry baby formula. Mixing it with what they are familiar with - increasing teh amount of "new" stuff is a way to accustomise them to it.

You can do it for cows milk too when you are ready to switch to that.

Emmanj, the 'hungry baby' milk is designated as suitable for babies from birth. The clinic need to tell you why they feel you should not have been using it. Their concerns will come down to marketing, I think - the formula manufacturers say that stage 1 is 'closer' to breastmilk as the dominant protein is whey, but really, there is not much difference between stage 1 and 2, and if there were, it would not be permitted to market them both from birth. Both of them are based on skimmed cows milk and only differ in the whey:casein protein ratio.

Yeh i did mean te hungry baby formula not the follow on!

Thanks you guys, it has put my mind at rest somewhat.
Tiktok - it wasnt the use of No.2 milk the clinic were against, it was teh fact that i was mixing the scoops of 1 and 2 in the same feed as this was what had been advised to do!
Your right though, i guess they are similar - it just freaked me out,worried i had caused some irreversable damage to DD's stomach or something??!

Im a first time mum, sorry for the seemingly stupid questions!!!

Ah, I see - in that case they may have a point,as the dilution factor may be different for each one as scoop sizes might be different. Ask them

both formulas say 1 scoop per 1 fl. ounce of water?????!

Yep - if scoop sizes have the same volume per oz of water, not a problem, I would say.

thanks guys, it was because i was using up all th no.1 milk ii had - its so expensive! but i spoke to the HV too just now and she confirmed its fine and echoed what you said about weaning themm off oneand onto the other. thanks for ur speedy answers - i love mumsnet!
off to make up bottles now.....just no.2 milk now!!!!!
x

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could that possibly be on a more WRONG thread?

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