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Parenting after 35
Will I ever get to stop pumping?
Seriously. Caroline refuses to drink anything other that breastmilk. No formula. No juice. Limited amounts of water. I have no reason to believe cow's milk is going to be received any differently. I have tried mixing BM and formula, gradually increasing the formula amounts- she is OK with it until a certain point and then refuses it. I've tried every formula out there.
I wouldn't mind but I just really, really, really want to stop pumping. I can't even imagine what weaning might be like.
Can anyone think of anything else to try? Has anyone had a kid who hated formula but loved cow's milk?
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Re: Will I ever get to stop pumping?
Yes! Simon was such a boobie monster he wouldn't touch formula even if he was starving! My babysitter had to mix bm with rice cereal because he wouldn't even drink bm out of a bottle, kid only wanted bm fresh from the cow. I spent the last two months of his infancy terrified of weaning him, I was positive that he would reject cow's milk. And he did at first, so I fed him the equivalent in yogurt, cottage cheese and cheese...babies don't need to drink milk at all if they eat enough food with calcium, vit D and fat. Just recently he started loving milk, he drinks 24 oz a day and would drink more if I let him. Now, bear in mind I do mix in 1/2 teaspoonful of strawberry flavored Quik per sippy cup because he's used to the sweetness of breastmilk and cow's milk isn't sweet. But I'm slowly weaning him off the Quik.
Have you tried the straw sippy cups? Simon only drinks water/juice and milk out of those, not the kind you have to tip. Seriously, don't spend the next couple months worrying about weaning like I did because Caroline will grow to like milk and even if she doesn't, as long as she likes yogurt, etc. she will be fine. The only reason I started pushing the milk with S is that it's less time consuming for him to hold his own sippy cup than for me to sit there and spoon yogurt or cottage cheese into him 3 times a day.
She is still to young for cow's milk but if she doesn't take it when she is 1 y.o. try mixing it with strawberry flavored powder by Nestle (add less than recommended amount as it would be too sweet). You may also try vanilla-flavored milk. My son didn't mind formula but he hates cow's milk. He does drink soy milk though which is another option.
Not necessarily...one year old is a guideline but some babies tolerate milk earlier, my friend started her 11 month old on 4-6 oz a day of cow's milk and slowly increased the amount over that month...by his birthday he was 100% weaned and did fine.
My youngest would not drink formula - he would rather starve ; ) He transitioned to cold cow's milk without a problem. I started to introduce it around 11 months & then weaned him a little over 12 months
My middle son needed the cow's milk warmed up, but did not have a problem with the transition either.. but he did switch to formula at about 8-9 months.
I wasn't considering starting cow's milk until closer to 1, though I have many people start at 11 months with no problems. I just want her to have something to drink during the day while I'm at work and right now that is bottles of pumped BM. She can drink from a sippy cup and will drink BM from it - she just won't drink anything else.
You all have given me hope that she might be willing to drink cow's milk eventually and I can stop pumping and get a little break before starting it all over again.
That's because she's getting all her liquid needs met from breastmilk. As soon as you start dropping bottles she will increase her intake of water/juice. And if you really wanted to stop pumping tomorrow I'm sure she would be just fine with the right kinds of foods (but don't take my advice, I'm not a doctor so you should call your pedi and double check). At 10 months old breastmilk is not their exclusive - nor even their primary - source of nutrition...solid food is. The La Leche League, Kellymom, etc. like to say that bm is primary for the first year but nowhere does the AAP state that, they simply say that bm/formula are exclusive for the first 6 months, not primary source of nutrition from age 6-12 months. Yes I EBF'd for a year and would have gone much longer had I not needed to stop, however, I did it because I enjoyed it and not for the nutritional value.
That's probably true. Maybe I should replace one of her daycare bottles with a yogurt and see how things go. She likes yogurt and loves cheese (her mother's daughter) so I know she'll always get her calcium.
Maddie still BFs but will take - and LOVES water. She will also take watered down juice and DH gave her some of that bottled water that has a twist of fruit. This one was watermelon and she really loved that. But when she was under 1 year, she didn't drink anything but BM. Now she even drinks water from the faucet in the tub and the tub water
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I haven't given her cow's milk since she is allergic to dairy anyway, but I am relatively certain she would drink it if I offered it. I don't thinks he would take formula if I tried to give it to her.
Margaux LOATHED formula, but had absolutely no issues at all with cow's milk.
We never put the milk in bottles, just used a straw-type sippy cup, so she was never confused by what she thought *should* be in there.