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Hello all.


Sebastian is now being weaned onto solids- he has 3 meals a day (I use the word 'meal' loosely, pureed stuff that smells of catfood would NOT satisfy me, but he seems happy enough...). However, his last feed of the night, around 11pm, is formula. Now that he's on solids and a week shy of 6 months, should we be using follow on milk, or is it still okay to use aptamil one? He also has formula now and then when he's away from me (expressing doesn't work)


Hope heads aren't too sore from the meetup last night, sorry to miss you all, will we be doing another one in July?

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Hi Ruth,

I've been mix feeding since 7 months and just used the Aptamil one that's suitable from birth. I was v dubious about follow on too (OH thought we should be using it, I blame the adverts!) but as she took to the formula so well,having been such a sicky baby who developed allergies as soon as we started solids, I didn't fancy rocking the boat. I'm sure a HV (or book or website, paranoid first mum have done a lot of reading...) said that you could just keep going with whichever formula you'd started baby on.

hi...i was very dubious too but then after weaning my son went through a phase of not drinking much milk and we were worried in case he wasn't getting enough. We did check the difference between SMA Gold and follow-on and from memory the latter was slightly more concentrated - ie we thought it was worth switching in case it meant he was getting more nutrients etc even if drinking less (if that makes sense). In general though I think there's not a lot of difference and if he still likes the Aptamil you've always given him it's not worth changing now.

Aptamil first


http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Aptamil-First-Infant-Milk-Powder-from-Birth/13776011


Typical values per 100g

Energy 275kj

Energy 66kcal

Protein 1.3g

Carbohydrate 7.3g

of which sugars 7g

Fat 3.5g

of which saturates 1.5g

of which polyunsaturates 0.6g

Fibre 0.8g

Sodium 0.02g

Vitamin A 55?g

Thiamin (B1) 0.05mg

Riboflavin (B2) 0.1mg

Vitamin B6 0.04mg

Vitamin B12 0.18?g

Vitamin C 8.3mg

Vitamin E 1.1mg

Niacin 0.43mg

Folic Acid 12?g

Biotin 0.002mg

Pantothenic acid 0.33mg

Copper 40mg/kg

Chloride 41mg

Magnesium 5mg

Calcium 50mg

Potassium 63mg

Phosphorus 28mg

Iron 0.53mg

Zinc 0.5mg

Iodine 12?g



Follow on


http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Aptamil-Follow-On-Milk-From-6-Months/13763011?parentContainer=SEARCHaptamil


Typical values per 100mlas prepared

Energy 285kj

Energy 68kcal

Protein 1.4g

Carbohydrate 8g

of which sugars 7.6g

Fat 3.2g

of which saturates 1.4g

Fibre 0.8g

Sodium 20mg

Copper 50mg/kg

Chloride 56mg

Magnesium 7mg

Calcium 83mg

Potassium 86mg



Wider range of vitamins added to aptamil first


Protein, fat etc very similar


Follon on has more sodium, copper, magnesium and calcium

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