Follow-on milk!

[princess_vix]

bought this today as it says from 6 months?

is this okay is this what i should be doing now?

 

[Cheesepuff]

I have been wondering about that too, I asked my GP who said I Alex could stay on the stage 1 milk until 1 year old as long as his diet of solids is varied.... So I'll be interested in morfe answers on this one

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

My HV says the 'need' for follow on milk was invented by the formula companies and it's not needed if your baby is eating a varied diet. I'm not going to be giving it to Ruby...

 

[kaylynn040485]

Ive started Jessica purely because we were struggling with weaning and at least this way i knew she was getting all the vitamins etc she should be getting at this stage so think it really depends on how well weaning is going for u both. Kx

 

[Kimboowee]

Same as Kaylynn, Josh is quite fussy with his food so its a way of getting extra iron and stuff into him. I went on to it at nearly 6mons as he was already being weaned

 

[Nibblenic]

MY HV said that i didnt need it as lo only has home cooked varied meals. However i deided to change her over onto simply because it was cheaper and i plan on not using cows milk until she is older as i have a milk allergy and dont want to try her on cows milk until im comforable

TBH i noticed no change in her when i changed the milk over. We went fom c&G comfort to the same but follow on

 

[Plus2]

I use follow on milk for may babies, simply because of the extra Iron. Apparently when babies reach 6months something happens to there Iron stores.
They eat a varied diet, but i still prefer to give them the follow on milk.

 

[faille]

I switched Violet to it at 6months as we're doing BLW and I can't be sure how much of what she's actually getting, even if she's offered a varied diet, she doesn't always take everything offered!