Follow on Milk

[Elizdia]

Does anyone still give there LO formula at 13 months old? I still give my LO aptamil follow on milk but my health visitor said i could move to whole milk with vitamin drops. Does anyone else do this? What's the healthiest best option?

Thanks
x

 

[k4th]

I moved dd on to cows milk at 1 year old with a multivitamin. She was (& still is!) a very good eater. She ate a huge variety of food and polished off every meal. I was happy she was getting all the nutrition she needed from her meals and didn't need it supplementing with formula. Obviously she needed the calcium from cows milk. She's 4 now, still has a multivitamin & is practically perfect!!

I am planning to do exactly the same for ds as long as he is a good eater. If he is fussy or has a limited range of foods he'll eat for whatever reason, I'll keep him on formula a bit longer.

I'm a big fan of natural foods - I cook everything from scratch at home & made all her purée myself. I wanted dd off the "artificial" formula asap - as long as it wasn't going to do harm. And it didn't

But it really is down to personal preference

 

[MindUtopia]

If you are going to use any formula at 12 months +, the recommendation is to use toddler or growing up milks. The follow on milks are only for babies 6-12 months. But no, we switched to cow's milk at 12 months. It's cheaper and easier. It's also a whole, natural food, as opposed to a synthetic one. The way I see it is I don't drink nutritional shakes (which is basically what it is) in place of eating healthy food, so I wouldn't feed my kid that either. It's also higher in sugar than cow's milk and many of them are lower in calcium. You should still offer a vitamin drop because kids up to age 5 in the UK are recommended to have vitamin d supplementation (you can't get much vitamin d from food), but I wanted to move in the direction of getting all other nutrients from real food. And again, it's just so much easier and cheaper, and my daughter liked it so much more.

Which? did this great side by side comparison of toddler milk and cow's milk though, which I think is really helpful, showing how they compare nutritionally and by cost.

https://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-ch...the-right-formula-milk/toddler-formula-milk-/

 

[laura109]

Our health visitor said the follow on milk is a waste of money and put them straight onto cows milk at one. She said if they get a good varied diet they will be just fine.

I give my almost 11 month old cows milk watered down as a drink in the day and she has it on cereal. It will be alot cheaper for us to but full fat milk instead of a £8 tub of milk a month xx

 

[noon_child]

Which? did this great side by side comparison of toddler milk and cow's milk though, which I think is really helpful, showing how they compare nutritionally and by cost.

https://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-ch...the-right-formula-milk/toddler-formula-milk-/

That's a great article! I Love Which?