more milk questions

mrsmikey

We are in the process of transitioning from formula to milk and I have some questions.  Before, DS got a bottle of formula about an hour before mealtimes.  Now I'm trying to coincide his bottles with his meals.  He gets 3 meals a day and one snack, which works out with his 4 bottles/day. 

I'm having trouble with going from formula being his main source of nutrition to solids being his main source of nutrition.  Before I would make sure he finished his bottle, and then offered solids an hour later.  But now I want him to eat good meals right?  So should I offer the milk after he's done eating?  He still wants to drink his bottle all at once, not sips throughout the meal.  We're also putting the milk in a sippy instead of a bottle, but he drinks less that way.  Is that ok?  He's still probably taking about 4 oz from a sippy.  And some days he just doesn't seem that interested in eating.  This weekend for instance, he just didn't eat much at all, I think because of all the chaos. 

pea-kay

we always gave bottles with meals, so maybe that's why it was easy for us to transition (we did that because getting 3 babies in and out of high chairs is not something you want to do any more than you have to) and now we give them their sippies of milk closer to the end of the meal so they'll eat instead of playing with the milk.

i think things will work themselves out in time. mine definitely don't get as much milk as they did formula (and our ped wants them to get 24-32 oz of milk a day - yeah right!) so i give them yogurt a lot.

TheMalleys

I find that if I give her milk w/ meals she doesn't want to eat her food, cause she fills up on milk. So I give milk at snack times and water with meals.

KristinKD

I'm still nursing, but some days I give DD milk during the day. She nurses or gets milk between meals and gets water with meals. Giving milk with meals doesn't work for us because she either eats too much and doesn't save enough room for milk, or she drinks too much and doesn't save room for her meal.

She wakes up, nurses, then has breakfast an hour or two later. Then she takes her nap and nurses or has milk in her sippy right after she wakes up. She gets lunch an hour later. I'll nurse her again or give her more milk in the late afternoon along with a small snack. She has dinner about two hours before bed, then nurses again just before bedtime.

jlw2505

They don't need as much milk as they did formula and you can get extra dairy in other ways such as cheese and yogurt.  What I did with my older DD and will do with the baby is simply took away her 2 daytime bottles of formula and started giving sippys of whole milk at meals and then a few days later I took away the morning and bedtime bottle cold turkey and replaced with sippy's of whole milk and it worked great.  I did this at 11 months and DD was totally off the bottle/formula a week or so later. Once I was done with the bottles, DD was getting 3 table food meals a day and 2 snack a day (between breakfast and lunch and then between lunch and dinner).  She was getting milk 1st thing in the morning, with some meals - would alternate with water or offer both and let her choose and then at bedtime.  Soemdays she would drink a lot and others not much at all but I always give other sources of dairy so I'm not worried and I offer water with snack and throughout the day.  I don't do jucie much at all but she gets it once a day at daycare and we now (she's 2 1/2) do OJ with breakfast on the weekends.  I plan to do things the same with the baby.