Hospital Formula Milk- which to use

Lottie86 · Apr 16th, 2009, 17:12 PM

My hospital apparently use SMA and Cow and Gate on the maternity ward. Is there any major difference between the two with regards to protein, fat, vitamin levels etc or are they much of a muchness?

**Wobbles** · Apr 16th, 2009, 17:21 PM

Personal preference ...If your using one or other when you are home then that one would obviously be better x

snowgirl · Apr 23rd, 2009, 16:48 PM

I think SMA has slightly more Iron than C&G and therefore some people find their babies get constipated more on SMA. Doesn't effect my boys that way though and they've been on both C&G and SMA (now on SMA). From personal experience, my boys seem to prefer SMA, as they are more relaxed when feeding and guzzle a lot of it compared to C&G!!

Katiex · Apr 23rd, 2009, 17:01 PM

not too sure about the differences between them both but in hospital we used c&g.

Fossey · Apr 24th, 2009, 04:16 AM

I got given a choice of loads, its quite daunting when you werent prepared to ff. They don't recommend any to you either as not allowed you have to choose. Its good you are researching first. We picked SMA

charliebear · Apr 24th, 2009, 04:48 AM

We chose C&G as that's what we had at home.

Apr 16th, 2009, 17:12 PM	#1
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snowgirl Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 264	I think SMA has slightly more Iron than C&G and therefore some people find their babies get constipated more on SMA. Doesn't effect my boys that way though and they've been on both C&G and SMA (now on SMA). From personal experience, my boys seem to prefer SMA, as they are more relaxed when feeding and guzzle a lot of it compared to C&G!!

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Katiex Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire, uk Posts: 892	not too sure about the differences between them both but in hospital we used c&g.

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Fossey Other Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cotswolds Posts: 2,302	I got given a choice of loads, its quite daunting when you werent prepared to ff. They don't recommend any to you either as not allowed you have to choose. Its good you are researching first. We picked SMA

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charliebear Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North East -UK Posts: 4,269	We chose C&G as that's what we had at home.

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