Kendamil Classic Ready to Feed Stage 2

What Is Kendamil Ready to Feed Stage 2?

Kendamil follow-on milk Ready to Feed is a liquid formula for babies from six months who are already eating solids. It is not suitable from birth. If your baby is younger, take Kendamil Classic Ready to Feed Stage 1 instead.

Kendamil added this bottle to the Classic range in 2024, after many requests from parents who already used the Stage 1 liquid and wanted the same option for the weaning stage. It uses the same whole-milk base as the Stage 1 bottle, so the taste is familiar, and most babies don’t notice the change.

Kendamil’s own feeding guide puts the target at roughly a pint of milk a day, about 500 to 600ml, alongside meals, with a 250ml bottle, that works out to 2 to 2.5 bottles daily, which is a tidy number to plan around.

The honest reason most parents buy it: in a car park, with a hungry baby, nobody wants to be counting scoops. You can see all six liquid products on the Kendamil Ready to Feed collection page, including the certified organic version, Kendamil Organic Ready to Feed Stage 2, and the tin format in our Kendamil powder range.

Do You Have to Switch From Stage 1 in 6 Months?

No. And we would rather say that plainly than sell you a bottle you do not need.

Here is what is actually happening at six months. The iron your baby was born with starts running low right around the time solids begin. Because of that, UK and EU rules set a slightly higher minimum iron level for follow-on milk. That’s why Stage 2 exists as a category.

But iron-rich first foods do most of that work. Well-cooked meat, lentils, beans, eggs, and fortified cereals replenish stores far more effectively than a small bump in a bottle does. And the Stage 1 bottle is labeled for use through the whole first year, so sticking with it is a perfectly reasonable choice.

Where Kendamil Classic Ready to Feed Stage 2 makes sense: your baby is slow to take to solids, your pediatrician has flagged iron, or you simply prefer the milk matched to the stage. Our guide on when to transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 walks through the timing, and any real concern about iron is a conversation for your pediatrician, not a product page.

What Changes From the Stage 1 Bottle?

Most brands noticeably raise casein in Stage 2, on the theory that heavier milk keeps babies fuller. For some babies it also means a heavier stomach. Kendamil keeps the whey-to-casein balance at about 52:48, the same as the Stage 1 bottle, so the milk stays gentle through a stage when plenty of tummies are already adjusting to new foods.

What actually moves is iron, plus a few vitamin levels tuned for a weaning diet.

Iron moving from 0.70mg to 0.75mg is a small step. That is not a criticism of the milk; it is just the reality of what follow-on formula does and does not do. Food is doing the heavy lifting by now.

Stage 2 Bottle vs Kendamil Classic Stage 2 Powder

The vitamins track closely between the two formats, but the base ingredients genuinely differ. Kendamil Ready to Feed 6-12 months in liquid form leans on a 23% whole milk base instead of an added oil blend, while the powder uses sunflower, coconut and rapeseed oils plus whey enriched in alpha-lactalbumin.

Using both formats on the same day is completely fine. Powder at home, a bottle in the changing bag. One rule: never mix liquid and powder in a single feed.

The bottle has roughly double the prebiotic fiber, and the DHA-to-ARA ratio is nearly 1:1 rather than 2:1. The powder brings nucleotides, which the liquid does not. Neither is better across the board; they are simply different formulations for different formats.

How to Feed Stage 2 Alongside Solids

At this stage, milk works alongside meals rather than instead of them. Here’s how to fit feeds and solids together smoothly.

1. Wash your hands and sterilize. Wash your hands thoroughly and make sure the bottle or cup you’re using is properly sterilized before you start.
2. Plan 2 to 3 milk feeds a day. Space them around mealtimes.
3. Offer solids before milk at mealtimes. From about 8 to 9 months, give solids first at lunch and dinner, then milk afterward, so food isn’t competing with a full tummy.
4. Introduce a cup from six months. A free-flow or open cup is better for teeth than a spouted bottle and builds the drinking skill early, making the 12-month transition far less dramatic.
5. Use one bottle as a full feed, or split it. Kendamil liquid formula stage 2 comes in the larger 250ml size, so one bottle makes a generous single feed, or split it into a smaller bottle feed plus a cup serving with dinner.
6. Shake the bottle. Whole milk fat settles on the shelf, so shake well before pouring.
7. Pour into a sterilized bottle or cup. Never feed straight from the main bottle.
8. Store the opened bottle. Cap it, refrigerate immediately, and use within 24 hours.
9. Use poured milk quickly. Within 2 hours of pouring, or 1 hour once your baby starts drinking. Don’t use a microwave; it heats unevenly.

Full details are in our preparation instructions.

How Many Bottles a Month?

The exact number of Kendamil liquid formula stage 2 bottles depends on how much solid food and breast milk your baby gets alongside formula.

• Exclusive formula feeding: roughly 60-72 bottles a month
• Three 170ml feeds a day: about 2 bottles a day, or 60 a month
• Three 200ml feeds a day: about 2.4 bottles a day, or 70 a month
• Combination feeding with breast milk: noticeably fewer bottles needed

In practice, a 36-bottle bundle covers about two weeks of full feeding, or a full month if you use bottles only for outings and night feeds.

We sell all six liquid products in bundles of 6, 18, 36, and 72. The 6 and 18 cost the same per bottle, the 36 drops the price, and the 72 is the lowest. Subscribe & Save covers the 18, 36, and 72, takes another 5% off, ships express free, and renews every 2, 3, or 4 weeks. Skip, pause, or cancel before the next order is processed. Orders over $190 ship free; current timings are on our shipping page.

Kendamil Ready to Feed stage 2 is made in Europe for Kendamil, with Kendal Nutricare named on the pack. We ship fresh stock with a long shelf life, but the date to trust is always the best-before printed on the bottle, written the European way as day/month/year. When your baby turns one, Kendamil Classic Ready to Feed Stage 3 is the next step. Contains milk.

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