Accidentally gave baby semi skimmed milk

[CobaltRose96]

Hi all.

DD is one and I’ve been giving her full fat cows milk as a main drink for a couple of weeks now. We were round the in laws today and she got hungry, so MIL made her a bottle of milk and I fed it to her. I simply assumed that it was full fat milk, but she later told me it was semi skimmed.

Will this be okay as a one off? I know they shouldn’t have semi skimmed as a main drink until 2. I tend to worry way too much, if you couldn’t tell

She will be fine.

Yes it's absolutely fine

As a one of it will be fine and certainly better than having a crying hungry baby.

? Why wouldn't it be fine? What harm do you think it would do?

They aren't "not allowed" semi skimmed, they recommend full fat because they need the fat to gain weight, it's not that semi skimmed is bad for them.

Your right - you're worrying too much about this. You may just need to feed your DD sooner as she's a bit light on calories.

It is purely because it does not have enough calories for a growing baby if it is the only milk they are having. It's not poisonous.

It's not harmful, just they need the more calorie-dense full fat milk. So no problem as a one off, just if you were giving it all the time it'd be filling them up without giving them enough calories/fat.

Ach, it's fine. It's not her main drink if she drinks whole milk 3 times a day for a year but had one cup of semi.

And they're guidelines. Not rules. Bless you. You'll look back and laugh about it one day, promise!

Thanks all. Of course I knew it wasn’t poisonous, but I wasn’t sure why it wasn’t recommend to under 2s.

It's about fat but also full fat has more vitamin A than semi skimmed.

So it won't hurt her at all

Round here health visitors have been telling people to use semi instead of full fat due to the obesity crisis so I really wouldn't worry.

One drink of it doesn’t make it her “main drink”. Her main drink is what you give her day in day out.

She will be absolutely fine

babies need full fat milk to lay down good bones. Really bad advice from HVs if they are saying semi skimmed

Semi skimmed isn’t poisonous, it’s still the same milk, just had some of the fat skimmed off, hence the name!

Whole milk has loadsa good fats in it for growing kids so better for them. Plus, it tastes so much nicer. But they can have semi-skimmed. If I ever ran out of whole milk, my kid had semi. Every now & again, it’s fine!

@DPotter Full fat milk has less calcium than semi-skimmed (skimmed actually has the most of the three). The recommendation for full fat has nothing to do with "laying down good bones" - whatever that means. It's not "really bad advice" to recommend (on a case by case basis) that parents maybe don't fatten their kids up like the Christmas goose.

OP - your baby will be fine. Someone fed my PFB pop when they were about a year. I was deeply unhappy - the baby was fine though.