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Lumpy Formula
Hi Ladies,
We recently switched from Aptamil first stage formula to Cow and Gate follow on milk now LO is 6 months and we've started weaning. We seem to be having trouble mixing the formula fully though.
We make them up with boiled water cooled for up to half hour as recommended but the formula just doesn't mix in fully and we end up with lumps/bits in the bottles.
It doesn't seem to be affecting our daughter and she still drinks it, but we were wondering whether anyone else has had this trouble - if it's a Cow and Gate thing, or a follow on milk thing? Any suggestions?
Thanks
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We recently switched from Aptamil first stage formula to Cow and Gate follow on milk now LO is 6 months and we've started weaning. We seem to be having trouble mixing the formula fully though.
We make them up with boiled water cooled for up to half hour as recommended but the formula just doesn't mix in fully and we end up with lumps/bits in the bottles.
It doesn't seem to be affecting our daughter and she still drinks it, but we were wondering whether anyone else has had this trouble - if it's a Cow and Gate thing, or a follow on milk thing? Any suggestions?
Thanks
xxx
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To be honest we switched to Cow and Gate for cost reasons as it's over a pound cheaper than Aptamil. We bought Aptamil throughout stage 1 as hospital recommended it and she was happy on it so didn't want to upset her tum. But once we started weaning we figured she was fine on all sorts of food so her milk would be ok to change too. Maybe we'll just have to pay more and go back to Aptamil? As I said it doesn't seem to affect her, but as you say Rosalie, it just doesn't seem very nice.
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We've only just bought it to be honest so don't have anything to compare it to. We did buy 2 tins, maybe I should open the other and try and if it's fine then return the dodgy one?
Hoping someone here who's used Cow and Gate can answer if they have the same thing?
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I would do as others have suggested, and try the other tin you've bought. Cow & Gate have a website if you google it, with on-line advisors whom I've found very helpful in the past. You may want to try this if you have problems with the other tin-or even if you don't so you can let them know. Hth xx
The bottle I made earlier was fine and have just made some more so we'll see.
Wannababy, how do you mean roll them? I did swirl the contents a bit before shaking them just now as the packet says to mix rather than the old formula saying to shake so maybe that's the key?
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...a little bit of me can't help but wonder if it's the way hubby was making the bottles as the last 2 I made were fine...babe if you read this I'm sorry!
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