Cow's Milk - gradually or cold turkey?

ElleCee41809

Doc has cleared DD to start cow's milk at 11 months which is this Saturday! For those of you who have switched, did you mix it with formula/BM and just increase the amount of cow's milk over time or did you just begin giving cow's milk completely? DD is formula fed and still uses bottles although she's begun drinking from a sippy pretty regularly.

TIA!

MrsH11710

I plan to offer WCM at 1 year, that's only my personal preference. I plan to offer it with DD's meals in a sippy. I plan to mix it at first (with BM) and gradually increase the WCM. When she can drink it out of her sippy well then I will start to wean

stemms8810

With my DD I started with 3/4 formula and 1/4 WCM.  Then over the course of a week or two it was eventually all WCM.  That was how my other pedi said to do it.  This new one says to just start with one whole bottle of WCM in the mornin

selockar

We started WCM yesterday. He is weaning right now. I didn't pull out enough frozen bm, so I gave him wcm.  I nurse when he wakes up. He eats breakfast about an hour later. I give him an ounce or so of bm in a sippy cup. He gets thirsty when he eats,

wedsept

With my first LO, when she became one, we switched one of her bottles with WCM in a sippy.  (We didn't mix in any BM or formula.)  When she got used to it (a few days), we switched the second bottle, and so forth.  It was a very easy transi

picklesx

We started giving 4 oz in a sippy cup with his snack and then with meals as well. We never mixed in formula with the milk and Ds never seemed phased by the difference. Today is his first day entirely cows milk, no more formula or bottles for him.

mrsshawnavanb

theresat858:

My plan was to replace one bottle a day when we do it, but we'll probably transition to goat's milk instead if sh

aldavis78

We tried switching over recently. I gave 2 4oz bottles with one oz wcm mixed in. 3:1 f:wcm, and it was a disaster. Puking ensued. It was a rough night (and the bottles were morning and afternoon).

next time we are going to do just one oz a day fo