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DD2 turned 2 last week We currently give both girls full fat milk to drink. We have either skimmed or semi depending on how committed I am feeling to loosing weight! I know the advice is that you can swap to semi from 2 years old but I seem to have something in the back of my head about hormones and semi skimmed milk. The advice used to be to give full fat until age 5, but it changed because of the incidence of childhood obesity. If I give them semi, am I setting them up for fertility problems in later life? Neither of them drink huge amounts of milk and its easy enough to get calcium into them in other ways, the love yogurts and cheese. Am I thinking too much?

Thanks for that ladies. Gemma, she drinks about 100mls a day of milk I would think. I'm not worried about her weight, she is never still and her diet is generally pretty healthy. How much calcium does a small child actually need? I try to get 2 or three servings of dairy into them a day. Of course there are days when they have 4 or 5 and odd days when its only one. Neither of them like milky sauces which is a shame because I could eat cauliflower or macaroni cheese on a daily basis!

Interesting about the organic milk Bubble. Ours comes from the milkman and having worked in a milk bottling company, I very much doubt that its organic, however I don't want to change because it comes in refilled (not just recycled) bottles and its helping to support a local business. And its really convenient if we have loads or not much, I just leave a note out.

I think I will leave things as they are for now.