Baby formula help!

[Kszw]

Hi, im a first time mum and my baby girl is 3 months old shes been in sma comfort milk since she was 5 weeks due to bad constipation to point she was bleeding due to straining. (Shes fine now since being on sma comfort milk? The health visitor advised I only keep her on it for 4 weeks but I've ignored that since I don't want to risk her being in pain again.. but now I'm thinking obviously on the sma comfort milk its says from birth to 12 months but I can't help but think clearly the stage 2 milk have 10x more nutrients and vitamins in since most babies have to go on stage 2 at 6months + So what happens when she should be on stage 2? Has comfort milk still got enough nutrients and vitamins in for me to actually keep her on it until she is 12 month?

Any advice would be appreciated :)

Babies don't actually need stage 2 milk, it's just made because they are not allowed to advertise stage 1 formula,

She will be fine on stage 1 till 12 months

All first milk is ok for up to 12 months. Follow on was invented to get round the rules on advertising first stage milk so it's not actually required to swap to it at 6 months

Babies don't need Stage 2 milk at all.

You don’t need stage 2 milk. Stage 1 is fine up to 12 months (and over! Mine had it until around 14 months then transitioned to cows milk) Stage 2 milk is just a marketing thing.

Yup my health visitor advised me to stick to stage 1 milk which I did with my first.
With my second I would often buy stage 2 to take advantage of club card / nectar points etc as stage 1 or 2 is fine after 6 months and I worried less about what the health visitor said!

Thank you all so much for all your comments/help, I shall keep her on the comfort milk then I was absolutely dreading changing it if had to im glad you've all cleared that up for me haha.

Again thank you all so much ❤

@dementedpixie

All first milk is ok for up to 12 months. Follow on was invented to get round the rules on advertising first stage milk so it's not actually required to swap to it at 6 months

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My daughter also got constipated on Sma when she was 10 days old and didn't sleep for 2 nights due to constipation. We changed to Aptamil stage 1 and also gave her 2 feed per day of aptamil comfort till she was 6 months old. we stopped comfort gradually when we started weaning her and she is now healthy 9 months old and she has started refusing her milk but she is veey good at eating solids and eats 3 meals a day with plenty of dairy in it. So my advice is do what works best for you and the baby. Baby will get all the nutrients from normal formula as well but just for your information, Sma has caused many babies constipation and what I have read is that people usually go for other brand. I talked to my midwife about it and she was completely fine with changing her milk and my health visitor was not okay with it. but we did our research and changed it anyway and it worked best for my baby.

Thank you for your reply, at first my daughter was on cow and gate which made her constipated so i then changed her to the sma stage 1 which she was completely fine on for 2 weeks the 3rd week she was back constipated so then my health visitor and dietitian advised I try the comfort milk which shes been on ever since.. it seems to be working for her so I think ill just keep her on that I was just a little confused and what I should do once she turns 6 months and is suppose to go onto stage 2 milk which they don't do a comfort milk for but after reading other peoples comments she should be find staying on the comfort milk until like you say she starts refusing it and eats a good healthy amount of solids :)

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