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Skim milk
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N had his 18 month check up on Monday. His pediatrician recommended I switch him from 2% to Skim Milk and get his milk intake down to 24-32oz a day. He's 35 1/4 inches tall and 34 lbs (97% on all accounts). We just started offering the straw cup more but he still gets offered a bottle first thing in the morning, before nap, and at bedtime. All in all, he's probably getting 40z a day so I don't think trying to cut back to 32 is going to be too difficult but I've never heard of a pedi recommending transitioning to Skim milk so soon. FWIW, he's still a butterball but I don't think he's overweight (he's followed the growth curve all along). I mean, seriously they predicted him to be 6'5" as an adult. I don't think I gave birth to a future soccer player. More like middle linebacker.
Anyone have any experience they can share?
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Re: Skim milk
Our ped recommended switching from Whole to 2% at 18. DS is in the 90/95% for height and weight.
FWIW, I do agree with cutting the amount down. When DS was 1, he got 32 oz, and they told us to cut that to 24oz.
At our last visit they told us no more than 24oz.
I'm really no expert though - my kid is skinny and he won't drink milk at all!
DD1 9.24.06
DS 7.1.08
twins due 9.7.11 lost twin A at
DD2 4.7.12
Our pedi also said no more than 24oz after 1 year old b/c more than that inhibits iron absorbtion. So, I can see the recommendation to reduce the amount.
And, I think I've seen more reports lately that the AAP may start recommending 2% or skim milk for older toddlers b/c they think it may help prevent obesity later on. I don't know all the details, but I've seen those headlines on MSNBC or some other place.
when we introduced milk, our pedi said no more than 16-20oz of (whole) milk/day. Something along the lines of that milk doesn't have all the nutrients as formula/BM, so it shouldn't be the basis of nutrition any more.
Sprout gets about 8oz when he wakes up, 4oz twice as part of a snack and, depending on how he ate at dinner, another 4oz or so directly after dinner. All in sippy cups. He's a chunker too, fwiw. (i believe he was 95% of height/weight last appt. he may have slimmed down a little now b/c he's running all over the place)
DS was over 26lbs at 15mo and the pedi did not say anything about milk, he still drinks whole and will until his 2nd b-day. At his age he needs 16-24oz a day and never gets more than that.
I agree that if you think he gets enough fat from other sources, he's OK. Can you mix the 2% and skim or just give him 1%? When I asked at DD's 2-yr check up last year, the pedi said the recommendation is 2% until about age 6-7, at which point the child can go to skim.
We are still on whole milk but DD will only drink it at daycare :-) She is on the small end of the spectrum so not sure if that is why the pediatrician has kept us on whole milk.
That definitely makes sense. I'm having no issues w/ cutting him back. My aunt - his daycare provider on the other hand thinks he's not nearly drinking as much as her previous kids did and doesn't see the issue of him having 40oz a day nor does she see any issues w/ him still being on the bottle.
Bottom line... cutting out the bottles he'll drink less anyway so maybe its time to phase them out.
Our pedi said the latest research is showing that there is no need to keep doing whole milk as long as we once thought. Even for kids who are on the small side the research shows that they just "fill up" on the whole milk and then don't eat as much food--they aren't really getting more calories.
DS1 was a preemie and our pedi before we moved here had encouraged us to stick with whole milk for the xtra fat and calories. Pedi here said no need to--he's not really getting more calories because he's likely eating less food b/c of the whole milk. We went with 1 or 2% (whatever the store has) and I have to say that he now eats more food. So I think pedi was right--he was just filling up on whole milk and eating less. Now he still drinks milk but is eating more food and if we are feeding him nutritious food, he's getting more nutrients (since like pp said milk doesn't have as much nutritional value as BM/formula). Hope that makes sense.