Bottle fed babies

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Hello!

My little one is bottle fed she has cow and gate. She is now 6 months did everyone change to the 6-12 month milk? My health visitor told me I could stick too the birth -6 months not really sure what to do

Follow on milk is virtually identical to first infant formula. It is a marketing ploy designed to get around restrictions on formula marketing and advertising. Feed your baby with whatever suits you.

I stayed on stage 1 with my DS (5) and will be doing so with ds2 (6mth). Cow and gate say you can stay on it till 1 they just don’t advertise it as they think it might confuse people with weaning

I always used the 0-6m formula right up until I switched to cows milk at 1yr. My HV told me the follow on milk is exactly the same but with added vitamins (that will come from solid food anyway), but the companies make follow on milk because they are allowed to advertise it whereas they are not allowed to advertise 0-6m milk

Follow on milk just has more sugar added, you can taste the difference. Stick to the from birth milk.

Yep they are pretty much identical i think the follow on milk has some sort of name like 'the little fecker will sleep through the night if you buy this' so i did but it didn't make a blind bit of difference

Yep you're fine to stick to the first milk as others have said clever marketing only.

As far as I know, the only difference between the stage one and stage two is that you can collect loyalty points on the latter. I was told by a lady in a leading drug store that by law they are not allowed to offer loyalty points on stage one milk as this looks as if they are actively discouraging BF.

Also, I found stage two milk to be a couple of quid cheaper when using the powdered formula (I used Aptamil which is £8.99 in Aldi vs £10.99 In Sainsbury's!)

Just my own experience, and not sure how true the loyalty points thing is, so maybe someone else knows differently to this.

You can use either, but follow on is sometimes cheaper or on offer.

We switched to follow on at 6 months. Then to toddler milk at 1 year