Milk:semi skimmed ok?

[Hughsie]

I think I know the answer to this but need reassurance. DS1 is 27 months and still has a bottle before bed and a cup of milk in the morning - recently went away for the week and only had semi skimmed so used that - there is no reason to keep full fat milk up at this stage is there? Am I depriving him of anything by swapping?

Semi skimmed is fine from 24 months.

I switched DS1 and 2 to semi skimmed when DS2 reached 24 months.

I shouldn't think so. It's the fatty content and high calories that make the full fat milk better for them, but it shouldn't have any detrimental effects giving him semi-skimmed.

Cheers - At least it only means two types of milk in the fridge now rather than three which was a bit of a squeeze!

As well as the higher calories/fat, I think that some of the vitamins in milk are fat soluble so the semi skimmed/skimmed versions contain less of them. This isn't a problem though!

I waited until both mine could have semi skimmed milk as I didn't want 3 types of milk in my fridge

A plus point with semi-skimmed is that I think on a volume basis its calcium levels are higher than full-fat. We switched when ds was 24 months too, on the basis that he ate cheese and yogurt as part of his daily diet and was getting top-ups of vitamins A and D via those.