Follow-on toddler milk vs cows milk

barbiedoll

Absolutely correct about the iron in cow's milk not being absorbed properly. If anyone took iron tablets during pregnancy, they may remember the advice about not taking them with milk as it prevents absorbtion.

Yes, follow-on milk is a con. Don't encourage the formula companies any more than you have to, as Laura says, they only promote it to get around the advertising ban on baby formula. :mad::mad:

adamantine

im with everyone else - massive massive con.

if you read the tiny small print at the bottom it says something along the lines of cows milk not being a major source of iron anyway so its making you think the follow on milk is better when the iron levels in milk are not comparable as most iron comes from green leafy vegetables etc...

wish they would ban those adverts coz the mahousive cup of milk is ridiculous and its totally misleading!

jackyann

Should we ask Martin to say so & get lots of publicity?
Bless him, he posted awhile ago, that if you were going to breast feed, don't buy any bottles because.......................you get free ones with breast pumps........ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make-it-3

I always meant, but never got round to complaining to the Advertising Standards Authority about that advert with the big cup.

It's completely misleading, they make it sound like a child having cow's milk will get deficient in iron when in fact they'll be getting their iron from food not milk.

If your child should be having a healthy diet not milk with supplements. Its the same as us eating junk food and thinking its all ok I take a multi-vitamin.

lilrahi

Thanks everyone for your responses. So it's unanimous, the c&g people have made a mug of me, lol.

DD has a good appetite, she'll try anything and she's very good with pulses and spinach which I understand is good for iron anyway. So I'm just going to finish this pack and then it's onto cows milk.

And yes looby75 that's a lot of treats for her (and me!)

looby75

lilrahi wrote: »

Thanks everyone for your responses. So it's unanimous, the c&g people have made a mug of me, lol.

DD has a good appetite, she'll try anything and she's very good with pulses and spinach which I understand is good for iron anyway. So I'm just going to finish this pack and then it's onto cows milk.

And yes looby75 that's a lot of treats for her (and me!)

:T sounds like she has a fantastic diet (spinach is the one thing that I could never get either of mine to eat no matter how many times I offered it to them) Welcome to the mug club, I think most parents have been there at one point or another lol

Enjoy the treats

adamantine

the NHS have just changed their guidelines and say all children under 5 should have a vitamin suppliment according to DS2s dietician last week. they change their guides as much as i have hot meals i think!

OT but vitamins have been mentioned on here so i thought i would mention it.

onlyroz

looby75 wrote: »

:T sounds like she has a fantastic diet (spinach is the one thing that I could never get either of mine to eat no matter how many times I offered it to them)

Have you tried giving them saag aloo?

jackyann

lilrahi wrote: »

Thanks everyone for your responses. So it's unanimous, the c&g people have made a mug of me, lol.

DD has a good appetite, she'll try anything and she's very good with pulses and spinach which I understand is good for iron anyway. So I'm just going to finish this pack and then it's onto cows milk.

And yes looby75 that's a lot of treats for her (and me!)

Just suggest that instead of an abrupt change, you phase it over a couple of days to get her used to the new taste.

MarilynMonroe_2

If youre going to swap to cows milk keep some formula in too and change over gradually. (unless of course your lo loves coes milk straight away!) My dd took a while to accept cows milk fully, now I can't get enough into her!