Milk or baby milk with cereal?

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Possibly a stupid question: When giving DS (7.5 months) weetabix or porridge, should I make it with cows milk or with baby milk? He drinks plenty of baby milk so I'm not worried about trying to sneak it into his food iyswim, but I don't know if I'm supposed to just use cows milk in cereal at his age?

I always used ordinary milk on cereal after 6 months. No reason not to.

Yeah, you can 'cook' with cows milk from 6 months. This basically means you can use it in food.

I used cows too if he's happy to have it. The only advice is not to use as the main drink before one.

And it should be blue milk

OK, thanks. I'm a tiny bit nervous because he seems to have a bit of a bad reaction to yoghurt - he sicks it all back up (mouthful by mouthful) for a few hours afterwards. But he has normal baby formula, so he can't have a milk protein sensitivity surely?

Um that does seem strange. But yes they can have normal blue top from 6mo. It's just not recommended you replace formula or breastmilk with cows milk. As its not a complete food for human.

I've been giving DS (7 months) baby milk with his breakfast cereal as I need to sneak it in :)

I know you can use full fat cows milk in cooking from 6 months, but I assumed any cold milk should be baby milk?

It's ok using cold milk too. The problem is only when people using cow's milk as a main drink. I read somewhere that it's a problem even in the UK as cow's milk is cheaper than formula. And some families try to save money by putting cows milk in the bottle before 1.

There's nothing wrong with cold cow's milk from the fridge, on its own.

Equally you CAN use formula for pretty much anything, one of my Dts is on lacto free formula so I make all their cereal, mash etc with his formula. Tastes vile to me but neither of them seem to mind.