How did you introduce milk?

MOHjen

Interested in what worked best for everyone.

Ease into it or total switch?

Bottle, sippy or both?

Warm or cold?

gina000

Ease into it or total switch? Half milk and half formula until we ran out of formula, abut 2 weeks.

Bottle, sippy or both? Bottle, he doesn't get a lot of the sippy cup yet.

Warm or cold?  Cold.  I have never warmed up any of DS bottles.  I usually make the bottle and let it sit while we do bath, and books so its not right out of the fridge. But I have given it to him right from the fridge, he is not picky though.

IkesHawaiian06

Ease into it or total switch? Ease

Bottle, sippy or both? Sippy, she hadn't used a bottle in a couple months.

Warm or cold? I think cold, then warm. Either way, she hated it and didn't drink it until she was at least 20 months.

StellaZ

Ease into it or total switch? Did 1/2 and 1/2 for a day to see if there was any reaction - and then just 100% to see if he noticed, he didn't.

Bottle, sippy or both? Sippy @ 11 months

Warm or cold? Cold, never heated formula or milk.

IdahoGirl

I eased into it.  Milk bottles at home, formula bottles at daycare for a few weeks while I watched to see if she was going to be okay with that.  She had a milk protein insensitivity.

We used warmed bottles.

skenyon

We eased into it. Both my guys nursed and never really took a bottle so it went in a sippy, always cold. We started giving little bits at mealtime and them started replacing nursing sessions with a cup of milk.

mrssmith717

I eased into it in like 3 days.  Mostly formula, then half, then mostly milk, then milk.  By that time I was giving her formula in a sippy during the day and one bottle at night.  We kept going with milk in the bottle until about a month ago.  I only warmed the milk at night for the bottle.  I still slightly warm it in the sippy cup now.  Now we're all sippys, all the time, night time sippy is warm milk.

And also, in case you're wondering, Laurel would only use straw sippy cups for the first few months.  Only around 13 months did she start to use regular ones.

braveangel2

We tried it every once in a while after she turned one, but E hated cows milk. She loved goats milk, so she drank that for a while. She could drink out of a straw so we just helped her with the glass. She never got to just carry it around (I was paranoid about it spoiling or finding it in weird places). Then at about 18/19 months she started liking cows milk. We have a Klean Kanteen with a sippy adapter and that's been great for keeping the milk colder, longer and not giving it any funky smells. We never heated it.

KNemo

We started two weeks before his 1st birthday, in a sippy. He never took a bottle, so this wasn't even an option. We really eased into it. I just wanted him to get used to the taste/consistency because he was EBF and that seems like such a dramatic change.

He didn't start really drinking milk until after he was weaned at 13.5 months.