HV advice about cow's milk for under 1s...

[Tinkjon]

I make up porridge for DS (7mo) with full-fat cow's milk. He only has a tiny bit of porridge (a few tbsps) and he's having plenty of formula otherwise - he has way more than the recommended pint minimum. But HV said that I should really only be using formula to mix up food at this point- but that's rubbish, surely?! I feel confident in using cow's milk in this way and have completely ignored what she told me, but just wondered what others thought. It seems so well-known that cow's milk is fine in cooking from 6mo, so I can't imagine why she said that... fine if he weren't having much formula, but he has tons of the stuff!

Current national guidelines are that should only drink formula or breast milk until age 1 but that you can use cows milk in cooking. Main reason they recommend formula is because it has more iron in it.

HV has it wrong.

Quelle surprise.

fleximum, that's what I mean - I thought everybody knew that, so couldn't imagine why HV said otherwise!

Bizarre. Some health visitors are great but some do seem a little odd sometimes. I had one who when I brought DS for 4 month weigh-in, told me that she might tell me how to wean my baby next month implying that she wouldn't tell me before then in case I decided to rebell and wean him early. Wouldn't mind so much, but I am a doctor and that is very clearly all over the notes. Had another one who insisted on giving me weaning leaflets for ds2 even when I told her I was fine and had already weaned one with no problem. That does seem to be the area that lots of them have a bit of a thing about.

That's amazing of your HV, fleximum! Mind you,my GP told meI should wean at 3 months so nothing surprises me