MCHN advice about cow's milk for 12 month old

[Heaven]

Yeah those people out there who think it's ok to breastfeed until two are crazy

What a complete nutter!! That's what the WHO recommends and what she should be telling people!!

No idea why she would think that milk made for cows would be better than your perfect milk specifically made for your little one.

Keep up the good work!

[Sterla]

What strange (and frankly, quite bad) advice to give.

My DS is almost 20 months old, and he doesn't have cows milk as a drink - he doesn't need it. He has cows milk on cereal, and has had the a small amount to taste, but I don't offer it as a drink - it's booby or water all the way to drink here . Sounds like your DS knows what he wants anyway .

[MummaSue]

OMG , she sounds like my mother!! "when you gonna stop breast feeding that baby?" *sigh*

[Olive]

oh my can you look into whether or not yoou can talk to someone higher regarding this?? talk to you council etc.. its concerns me what shes telling mums

[onthefly]

Olive's suggestion is a good one - she's not following the official government guidelines in telling mothers that

[Barb Glare]

Nup, no logic at all - pure ignorance! My daughter just got a job milking cows (I'm very proud of her) but it's given me a whole new take on cows milk. Do you know where that stuff comes from?
Babies are designed to breastfeed for 2 years and beyond. Whole populations of the world - about 1.4 billion Chinese, for instance, don't drink milk at all after they are weaned. Sadly, governments allow health nurses to be marketed to by formula companies and some nurses allow themselves to be the unpaid marketing mouthpieces of those companies