a1 or a2 milk????

[queenbee]

why a1 or a2 milk? is it higher in iron than other cfows milk?

the formula i use contains 1.1mg of iron per bottle. cow's milk only has 0.5mg per bottle.

just curious if anyone else uses the a1 or a2 milk?? my BABYLOVE book says babies are fine on full cream cow's milk at this stage. is this correct?

[Trillian]

I've raised three children so far on ordinary full fat cows milk and they are perfectly fine and healthy. I will do the same with my 4th. All this milk with extra crap in it is just a rort to make us part with more money under the premise that it is better for us (sorry, bit of a rant there but I hate that there is 50million different types of milk these days). Regular full fat milk will be fine.

[queenbee]

Thanks Trillian, my DD had only 1 bottle per day last week of cow's milk and 2 bottles per day this week, I am introducing it slowly. Do you think I should wait until the 12 month mark? She's been good so far but I'm worried about iron??

[BellyBelly]

Full cream milk is much better for growing bodies than skim milk.

[Spring Angel]

I just had this conversation with my GP today. DS is weaning (I think) and so I've been giving him some full fat cows milk. The GP told me to put him on toddler's formula because he could get anemic (sp?) on cows milk. I thought those toddler's milk were a rort but now I'm doubting myself.

I'll be watching this thread with interest.

Spring

[Trillian]

Personally Queenbee, I would wait till she is 12mths old before giving her too much cows milk - in cooking or on cereal etc it will be fine, but to have bottles of it may be too much for her gut to properly digest.

Spring, is he having a good enough diet of solids? Toddler milks tend to fill up their little bellies too much so IMO toddlers who have the formula toddler milks rarely eat solids all that well. So if his diet is pretty good with red meat etc, then there should be no real need to worry about iron unless you are vegetarians