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Whole milk/weaning from bottles?

Breezer80Breezer80
in Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months

So we will be moving on to whole milk here in the next few weeks, and I'm wondering what the best way to do it is - do we give it cold, in a sippy cup, or warm in a bottle? We'd like to start weaning from bottles, I think, but she's never finished a sippy cup of anything, not even juice. I worry she won't drink enough milk ... what are you doing/how did you do it?

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Re: Whole milk/weaning from bottles?

  • Mrs.CarlybellaMrs.Carlybella member

    I weaned off the boob to the sippy of cow's milk.   I cut one feeding at a time, and offered the sippy to him on and off all day.  The first few days he only drank 3-4 oz of milk total all day.  As I cut out feedings and he got used to the taste, he increased his intake on his own.  He is now up to about 18 oz a day and we started 3 weeks ago (and he nurses once before bed- which I am keeping).

    The milk did upset his stomach and bowels- so the dr is having us pull off it a bit and go a little slower.  I know a lot of people do a mix of 1/4 cow's milk, 3/4 formula-  1/2, 1/2, -  3/4, 1/4 until they are only on cow's milk.

     

    It is up to you if you want to do the sippy now or not.  We did it b/c with nursing there was no choice-  I think if I were you I would keep up with the bottles and do the milk, or get him drinking from the sippy with the formula before intro'ing the milk  1 change at a time would be much easier to deal with

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  • Breezer80Breezer80
    That was kind of our thought. She was having a hard time finishing her late afternoon bottle anyway, so I think we'll try switching that to a cold milk sippy and see how that goes. I think I'd like to keep the warm milk morning & night for a little while ...
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  • tri047tri047 member

    We gave it cold.

    We started by filling his bottle or sippy 3/4 with formula and 1/4 of milk.  Then after a couple days 1/2 and 1/2...and so on.

    She doesn't need to finish the entire sippy cup at one sitting.  Have it available throughout the day and she will be fine.  DS goes through about 2 sippy cups of milk a day...sometimes more. 

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  • TKx2TKx2
    I gave it to her cold in a sippy cup.  She never looked back! 
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  • cath&jdcath&jd member
    we started with 3/4 formula 1/4 whole milk in a bottle...LO drank it,but it would take him forever to finish...so we just tried 100% cold whole milk and he drank it up!   Then we switched to only morning and night bottles for a couple of days but that seemed to make him depend on the night and morning bottle even more, so we just took it away one day  and it made our lives so much easier.  LO would only drink from the straw sippy cups ....with the normal sippy cup he had to tilt his head back too much, so he couldn't get the concept...plus it doesn't mimic normal drinking from a cup.  Now we go between the straw cups and the Tippy cup....
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