What are your thoughts on formula from 12months old?

[Kristabelle25]

Hi, I bf my dd til 10 mths, then onto formula. Around 12 months i started her on norml milk, she loved it from the beginning. But because she doesn't eat very well (no meat really, and not much else, only green peas and beetroot and the occasional banana) I also give two cups of formula each day. Morning and night she gets 200ml Karicare Gold toddler. Its great, one cup provides half the RDI of iron and heaps more. Its more of a peace of mind thing for me.

At least I know she's gettting the essential nutrients from it and I dont have to worry!!


Good luck

[bon]

Those ads make me soooo mad...they are emotional blackmail, pure and simple. Even though I FF my kids, I never used toddler milk - on the whole, it is unnecessary. If you b/f and don't want to stop at 12 months, don't. If you FF and don't want to switch to cows milk just yet, you can continue to use infant formula, just don't let it replace food. The formula companies pay big dollars to ad agencies to devise the best way of blackmailing parents into believing that they will be disadvantaging their child if they do feed him or her toddler formula. They do it because they are not allowed to advertise infant formula. And the claim that a certain brand of toddler milk will 'support' their immune system is utter bulldust.

[BekZ]

I have never wasted my money on toddler formula, however both my girls where good eaters and loved milk.

I did take a couple of months to transition from formula to straight milk though. By 14 months both girls were off ff.

My SIL has feed both hers on toddler milk and I have to say that both kids are terrible eaters and both still rely on expensive toddler milk, one child is 3 and the other 2.

[Indadhanu]

I'm glad this thread was started! They had begun to sucker me in (we've decided to wean soon, but formula until 3 years?!?!?!).

Come to think about it... LOL how does a formula enhance the immune system anyway??

[MamaPan]

never used a toddler formula here. at 10 months DS was 50% BF and 50% formula... and 11 months he weaned and was on 3 bottles formula a day (or was it 4??) and at 12 months i made the switch to cows milk (full fat). I think I did 1/2 1/2 for a week and then went straight to full milk. he has been great - but he is a wonderful eater etc etc.