Milk after 1

Now that Cian's hit the big 1 year mark (scary!) I have started him having a drink of normal blue-top milk for lunch everyday. I still breastfeed him twice a day (morning and night) but now I'm wondering if maybe it would be better to give him formula - like that toddler one they've been pushing on tv so much lately -instead of his lunchtime milk drink. What's the norm?

I put Hannah fully on to blue-top milk 3x a day after 12 months of breastfeeding.
She eats really well, so I don't feel she's missing out by not having the toddler formula.

Personally I feel it's a bit of clever marketing, but at the end of the day a blanaced diet (whether from just food or from a mixture of food and formula) is key.

So if Cian eats well, I'd skip the toddler milk (and save yourself some $$ in the process ).

Good luck with ttc #2, BTW

We are just doing milk, we did that with Leah as well. Although we are still doing bottles not a cup.

cool thanks -- i wasn't sure if I was just being sucked in by the advertising or not!! they're really pushing that karicare gold at the moment!

It is very good marketing, they like to play on a parents worry that their child is not eating right. As long as your little guy has a good varied diet he shouldn't need a supplement. In saying that my little guy has Karicare toddler milk but that was purely to wean him off the formula and on to the cows milk, he has a morning and a night bottle and cow's milk in a cup at lunch. I couldn't breast feed past 6 months so he's been on formula for about 7 months.

Also my brother and sister and I were all bottle fed and waaay back then bottle babies were given full fat cow's milk powder. My uncle whos even older got diluted sweetened condensed milk!