introducing milk?

chrissy0791 · October 2010

when/how did you begin to introduce milk? did you wait until 1 year exactly or start earlier? i'm not sure about the downside to starting earlier b/c i always heard one year. is it for the nutrients that they should stick to formula for 1 year? my mom thinks i should start her with milk now since she is eating such a wide variety of fruits and vegetable and meats everyday, but i'm not sure yet.

PurpleK26 · October 2010

I think the downside is whether or not they can handle it, digestively.

We've started putting milk on cheerios for K, and she's had ice cream and yogurt with no issues. So, I don't think she'll have a problem with it taste wise.

I think as long as you use whole milk, you'd be fine. We plan on making the switch around 9 months during the day, and just do formula at night. Then at 10-11 months, switching her over completely.

kimmie321 · October 2010

My pedi said I could start introducig at 10 months. I tried giving some to him in a sippy and he refused it. over and over. So, around 10 and 1/2 months I started mixing 1 part milk with 3 parts formula and gradually increased the milk until at about 11 and 1/2 months he was taking full milk.

RJHarmon · October 2010

My doc didn't want us to do any milk until she was into her 11th month. She said that they need that nutrition at least until that time. We started mixing milk with formula at about 11.5 months and then switched her completely a few days before her 1st birthday.

IMO-anything before 10.5 months is way too young if it is used as a replacement for BM or formula.

kimmie321 · October 2010

Oh and I did this keeping the amount of ounces he took a day the same. I was told at my 1 year appt. I was giving him too much milk. He was getting 24 oz and my pedi said 16 oz a day at most.

shelbyluvschachi · October 2010

DD had her nine month appt yesterday and the pedi said I could start giving her 1-2 bottles of whole milk per day. He said as long as she is getting mostly breastmilk (or for formula fed babies still getting mostly formula) that she'd be fine. I'm having some supply issues, so being able to give one cow's milk bottle a day will be a huge relief (pumping at work is starting to really beat me down). Bottom line, as long as they are getting mostly bm or formula, some cow's milk starting at 9 months should be ok.

tiffanylaw06 · October 2010

Our pedi said not to make the switch until 12 months. We went ahead two weeks ago (at 11.5 months) and let him taste my milk (2%). He loved the taste so I poured him a sippy full of whole milk and he took it with no problems. We are doing full whole milk 99% of the time and then one bottle has a tiny bit of formula/milk mix so we can finish our last can.

I say give it to them straight when you are ready to make the transition to see how it goes first before worrying about mixing.

NavyPilotWife · October 2010

We introduced whole milk at 11 months. My doc wanted me to be done BF sooner rather than later because of the pre-term labor I had with DD. I talked to DD's pedi about it and he said there isn't anything magical about turning a year and suddenly milk being fine.

I started off giving her 4 oz with lunch, just to see if she liked it and could digest it. We had no problems, so I replaced her afternoon nursing session with 6 oz of milk. A week later, I replaced her evening session with milk. I continued to nurse her in the morning until her first birthday.

irishbaby0708 · October 2010

Jack was a preemie and the pedi told me around 11 months to start offering him some in sippy cup to get him use to it. She said some babies don't like the taste of it. Well jack hated the sippy so I started at 11 months and would put 2 ounces in with his last bottle of the day and eithe day I added another ounce till he had a full bottle than i went to the second bottle and so on by the 3 week we were up to 3 bottles a day and I asked if i could go for the 1 year blood work early tomake sure he was lacking anything. When the blood work came back normal we totally switched. Which was a week before his 1st birthday. The pedi was ok with this and he isn't even eating lots of food yet.

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