Growing up milk vs cows milk. Comments please.

[PavlovtheCat]

Comments - not critisisms or judgements please. Or fighting (grin0


So. For a 12 month old - Cows milk vs growing up milk.

[PavlovtheCat]

i messed up my grin

[lulumama]

organic full fat cows milk

[PavlovtheCat]

lulu - Not Hipp Organic growing up milk?

[feetheart]

Cow's milk.
Cheaper and easier to get hold of late at night/in strange places/when you've forgotten it!!!

[PavlovtheCat]

feetheart - would you list those as the only reasons? If access/costs not an issue, purely on nutritional value - still cows milk?

[bonkerz]

growing up milk very handy to carry around as an emergency thing though. Always keep a few bottles in cupboard incase of running out of milk late at night or sour milk!

[SpacePuppy]

I still give ds formula ( he is 18 months) it works out the same per bottle compared to cow's milk (so that is a myth imo). Ds never took to the taste of cow's milk and in my opinion, formula is fortified and has iron etc that you don't get in cow's milk. Ds is currently a fussy eater so this is imo a life saver, as I know he gets his vit and minerals.

[lulumama]

no, just moo juice

[PavlovtheCat]

So, organic cows milk for normal drinking, and some spare growing up milk for extra snuffling/emergencies/in the car?

OK. How about Mumomega infant oils? Necessary in cows milk/growing up milk?

[francagoestohollywood]

organic full fat cow milk

[PavlovtheCat]

Space - yes, I have a few friends who have continued to give formula until their LOs turned 2 for the reasons you outline.

I breastfed DD until a few weeks ago, and I am in two minds between not really wanting her to drink formula anymore and wanting what will give her the most nutritional value.

She is not a fussy eater. Well at the moment she is, but thats got more to do with learning what happens when she flicks food across the room, or when she turns her plate upside down and claps her hands. Or that she can shake her head 'no' to everything.

[twofishes]

With my DD it's full fat cows milk for drinking, with Growing Up Milk for convenience ( out & about etc )and use a multivitamin syrup in the cold season.. but she is also a yoghurt fiend and eats it by bucketful with a pint of milk a day ( drinking and on cereal)so her bones are probably solid!!

[PavlovtheCat]

Twofishes - she sounds like my DD. She is not quite 12 months and drinks around 28oz milk per day . And also 2-3oz in brekky, plus yoghurt, and I cook with it in a lot of her food. She is very energetic and very petite but not due to lack of nourishment!

[Chirpygirl]

Cows milk everytime, I buy full fat for DH and I anyway so it is no extra hassle or cost, and when out and about you can always buy a pint of cows milk from somewhere so I don't understand teh ease thing, plus I get to drink the leftovers!

[PavlovtheCat]

Full fat is eeew! I ran out of skimmed today and used some of DDs full fat stuff, which I use for cooking, my coffee was awful!

[funnypeculiar]

Cows milk
Also give a (separate) multi-vit

[morocco]

another vote for organic full fat cow's milk

[PavlovtheCat]

DD does like her cows milk. In fact, she loves everything. Apart from lentils, and mashed banana
Oh, and anything I try feeding her right now that she cannot do herself!

[PavlovtheCat]

What multi vit?
She eats lots of fish, which is good.

[moondog]

'Growing up' milk is a nasty processed product.For that reason alone would steer clear. It is also a great deal more expensive than regular milk. Why place yourself on the altar of marketing hype.How many sturdy Western toddlers do you really think need extra vits,mins and iron????

Norralot.

[ravenAK]

Organic full fat - my mate who knows about these things says if you buy ONE organic thing, make it milk...

OTOH we inherited bottles of 'follow on' from another friend who FF. Kept them in the car for 'emergencies' for a bit. Then got a grip & realised that hulking great 2 year old ds doesn't actually HAVE 'lack of milk' emergencies any more...

'Growing up milk' = rip off. Certainly wouldn't use every day.

[PavlovtheCat]

MD - I saw it on special offer and contemplated whether it was something to consider using. I suppose I sort of knew what answer I would be happy with...!

pre-made formula always seems a bit 'plastic' to me too, but I have used it on occasion recently when travelling (only recently stopped breastfeeding).

However, I do like the idea of keeping some in the car for emergencies. I have a bag there atm with change of clothes/nappy/wetwipes/first aid/cartons formula stuff in case we break down/get lost somewhere!

[moondog]

I found a bottle of water did the trick Pavlov...

[PavlovtheCat]

Raven - I am currently using organic full fat milk and yoghurt for her, the cost difference between organic and non-organic is insignificant with the amount of it she drinks.

[madamez]

Cow juice is fine for everyday. I get organic milk delivered (which has NOTHING to do with the fact that milkman is kind of fit in a vaguely Philip Glenister way, of course). But have used growing up milk for out-and-about days and camping trips etc, because you don't have to keep it refrigerated. Also have in the past kept a couple of cartons in the house for that run-out-of-milk-at-bedtime scenario.