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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Adding Nesquik to LO's milk?
Does anyone add Nesquik, or rather anything, to LO's milk to entice them to drink it? LO's pedi said she isn't drinking enough milk, but it's not because I haven't been offering it to her....She just doesn't want it.
TIA!
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Re: Adding Nesquik to LO's milk?
Before adding chocolate to his milk, I would suggest giving him other forms of dairy.
No I would not add chocolate to LO's milk, Did your pedi suggest this? If so I would be looking for a new pedi. There are a lot of things you can do to increase dairy- like others said- cheese, yougurt, cottage cheese.
Why does she need more milk? Calcium? Protein? Fat?
I would have asked the pedi what he/she feels LO is missing and then I'd increase another source of calcium, protein, fat, etc. before I added Nesquik.
She can get those from things other than dairy products as well. Nuts, seeds, beans, vegetables, avocados, soy, tofu, etc.
I guess flame me if you must. However, I give DD like 1 oz of organic chocolate milk in her sippy, she then guzzles it down like it's the best stuff in the world. After it's gone or low I start filling the sippy with organic whole milk and she drinks it with the same vigor! I usually can get her to drink 8 oz of whole milk with her dinner by doing this. If I give her regular milk first she won't touch it at all. I trick my child to drink her milk. It works.
However, I wouldn't do nesquik... too many other things in that stuff.
I add sugar-free chocolate-flavored Carnation Instant Breakfast to all of B's milk, at her pedi's suggestion. But that is because she is very small (off the charts to 3rd percentile in weight, 5th percentile in height) and has trouble gaining weight. She has never had an issue with drinking milk (although she probably will if we ever get the go-ahead to stop the CIB).
I would try to give dairy in other ways before I'd add Nesquick to milk, personally.
Tegan refuses to drink plain white milk (we tried everything) from a sippy cup. For this reason alone, I actually kept her morning and evening bottle until she was 18 months old. Tegan's always been on the small side and never the world's greatest eater, so I wanted her to have the extra calories and fat that she gets from the whole milk.
However, at 18 months, I knew it was time to get rid of the bottles and she did so very easily, but completely stopped drinking milk. So, I tried flavoring it with a tablespoon of Nesquik and she drank it down without an issue. The tablespoon adds 7.5 grams of sugar to her milk (I use the powdered kind with 25% less sugar) and for myself, I'd much rather her have a little extra sugar and get the calories and fat from the milk vs her not drinking any milk.
Did your pedi give the Nesquik suggestion? Or any other suggestions?
DD1 refused to drink milk from a sippy until I stopped breastfeeding at 18 months. I was concerned because she was <10% for weight, but her pedi said it was fine as long as she was getting other forms of dairy. I started giving her oatmeal made with whole milk and yogurt stirred in for breakfast every morning, so between that and her love of cheese, she got a good amount of dairy. After I weaned her, she started guzzling milk so it was no longer an issue.
Something like Nesquik would have been at the bottom of my list of things to try, if it were even on the list at all.
Actually, I've compared the two and there's actually more "nutritional" value to Nesquik. Ovaltine had more sugar, more artificial ingredients and less added vitamins.
Are you implying that adding Nesquilk to a child's milk is the same as giving them coffee laced with alcohol???
Calm down, she's joking.
I have added Carnation Instant Breakfast to my kids milk.
Are you giving it cold or warm (or both)?
DD will drink her milk cold but guzzles it when it's warm.
Wait. What?
This is a sarcastic post right? lol
I think you must be thinking of something else. Ovaltine has 40 calories in 2tbsp, Nesquick powder has 60. Ovaltine has 9g of sugar, nesquick has 13. And there's no comparison in the vitamins. Ovaltine is a significant source of vitamins, nesquick is not. Ovaltine doesn't use any artificial flavors or sweeteners, nesquick does. They're not really comparable.
This is exactly what we do for M.
And it all comes back to "A Christmas Story." Heh.
freaking hilarious!!!
YES I do add strawberry flavoring to her milk every time (go ahead and gasp or judge). She gave up bottles on her own at 18 months or so and went on a total milk strike with it. She wouldn't eat yogurt, cheese, milk in any form or container.
I got desperate and was buying these whole milk squeezable pouches from whole foods at $2.00 each until one day she refused that too. She has other eating issues due to her severe reflux as a baby and has major texture sensitivity so we struggle with her eating.
So after many visits with the occupational therapist we finally got her to drink strawberry flavored milk (also will now eat cheese) and I am too fearful to change anything. I am just happy she is drinking milk and finally started drinking pedisure (strawberry flavored) too. She is in the 20% and lost weight since her 18 month appointment so we are working on gaining weight and swallowing her food.
I have been putting Nesquik in DS milk since he statred milk. The is was at that the suggestion of pedi. DS is just now 16lbs at 15 months old. He eat like a horse but doesnt gain weight(he is also VERY active). So he need to extra fat and calories. Most things pedi would NEVER suggest for you average child mine told me to do(think Happy Meals and Milk shakes) he also drinks 2 pedisures a day.
meh... there are six kids in my family and we all had nesquik in our milk occasionally.. we all turned out to be perfectly healthy, non-obese adults. That said... I would try a low sugar ice cream before chocolate syrup, just for the sugar/caffeine intake.
Don't let people make you feel bad... we've all given our kids junk... kraft dinner, chips, sugary juice... the list could go on... but we do TRY to make healthy choices... thats what counts. Keep offering milk and try cheese, yogurt and cottage cheese first... then decide.
A nurse told me to give chocolate milk to DS to keep him hydrated anyway possible while he had a fever from teething and wasn't eating/drinking much.... but also popsicles, jello, etc.
But drinking whole milk on a daily basis - definitely agree try different forms of milk in case LO has a problem with regular milk.
I give my son 1/2 tablespoon of no sugar added Nesquick. It has 3 g of sugar for 2 tbsp. I believe. It does not even really taste like choc. milk. It does however taste just a little different that reg. milk that my son will drink it.
Finn barely drinks 8oz of milk a day. He just doesn't seem to be particularly thirsty. Our pedi is happy as long as he gets 3 servings of dairy, which he does, and suggested vitamin D supplements.
We recently discovered the YoBaby drinkable yogurt which he absolutely loves. Give those a try before adding syrup to milk. I've considered maybe it's the flavor too, but do not want a child who will only drink flavored milk based on friend's experiences.
My kids hate regular milk so I mix in a little strawberry kefir. They love kefir in their milk. It's a tad expensive, but I don't use much so it lasts a good while.
And baileys. They'll cut a biitch for some Baileys
With my 1st DS the pedi suggested to add nesquick to his milk. He wasn't gaining weight & she said it had the same vitamins & stuff that pediasure did. My DS turned out just fine.