Transitioning to WCM

Telly21182 · June 2012

I'm debating buying some WCM at the store this weekend just to start getting him used to the taste... anyway, my question is - when do you ladies give your LOs WCM, almond milk, hemp milk or whatever? Are you doing this in place of bottles/breastfeedings, with meals? I have no idea what I'm doing, but I want to start transitioning him because I'm so not a fan of his formula since Target changed the packaging. I think the formula changed a little

gymnst1013 · June 2012

I've just been giving him sips here and there. I gave him a small cup once or twice with dinner but he didn't drink a whole lot of it. I'm probably not a big help because we aren't really pushing it on him.

vigurl · June 2012

I started by adding 1 oz of hemp milk to 5 oz of BM for his 6 oz bottle. He took to it just fine. So then I moved it up to 4oz of bm and 2 oz of hemp. I still have plenty in my stash so I wont be doing 3oz of each quite yet.

MommaG123 · June 2012

She gets a sippy of milk with breakfast, water with lunch, water during the day (if she wants it) and usually a sippy of milk with dinner. Oh and she never finishes any of them.

She still BFs all. the. dang. time. though. I am so ready to wean... only I'm not.

SarahKate31 · June 2012

We have been slowly mixing WCM into his bottles of formula. No issues with the taste - he drinks it fine. Daycare also gives him a sippy of milk at meals, but I doubt he drinks more than a few sips at a time of that. He's actually had major constipation issues since we started the switch, but they might be starting to clear up now.

He was getting 28oz of formula and he doesn't need 28oz of WCM so I think I'm going to cut out a bottle somewhere. I seriously have no idea what I'm doing.

jellybeanjean · June 2012

Our transition was weird. Sam dropped his middle of the day nursing sessions around 10mon. I wasn't ready to start cow's milk, so I had formula samples that I substituted for those two feedings. He took it fine. Two weeks ago, he dropped the morning/before bed feedings...I no longer could get him to nurse at all. When that happened, we went straight to WCM in straw cups with meals only. He didn't seem to miss the "extra" feedings of formula/breastmilk at other non-meal times. So three times a day he gets a straw cup of WCM with meals. He loves it. He's probably drinking waaaay too much (at least one full 10 oz sippy/meal), but he eats well too so I'm not concerned.

ck2025 · June 2012

I've been introducing it in increments. I started with 2oz milk, 5 oz formula for a few days, and have been slowly changing the ratio to more milk as I go. He's been fine with it. He was a little constipated for a day or two, but we just gave him more friut and yogurt and everything's moving again.

cvl105 · June 2012

I now give it in place of what she previously had in bottles. We basically offer her sippys of milk at each meal...and at snack if she didn't finish the previous bottle.

bt3701 · June 2012

I have been offering 1-2 oz at dinner, just to get her used to it. Oh, in a sippy cup. My plan is next week to offer it with 2 meals, and the week after that offer it with all 3 meals.

The week after that she will be going back to daycare, and I'm not sure what to do then. I think I'm going to try to mix BM with WCM... but maybe only send 2 bottles instead of 3? They provide WCM in sippy cups at daycare, so I can also ask them to offer her that first and the bottle only if needed. I'm hoping to wean myself from the pump at that time, but continue nursing in the morning and bedtime if my supply holds out.

So thats my sorta-plan...

cmread · June 2012

We tried switching cold turkey just to see how he'd do, and it was fine. We now give him an 8oz bottle of WCM when he wakes up, and then WCM in a sippy or straw cup with each meal and sometimes snacks. He gets water throughout the day. Just before we switched, he was drinking 32oz of formula/day. I'd say now he only drinks about 20oz of WCM. He eats a lot more though.

M&M227 · June 2012

We started mixing last week. We started with 4 oz formula and 2 oz milk, then after a couple of days we did 3 oz and 3 oz for a day or so, and then 4 oz milk and 2 oz formula. Monday we started all milk.

We did it place of bottles, she gets breakfast and milk in a cup (which she won't touch - she hates milk in a sippy) then a little after breakfast I'll put it in a bottle and give it to her. Then we do the same at lunch, snack gets water and dinner the same. She's usually done her milk around 6:45 then we go upstairs between 7 and 7:15 for a bath, story and bed.

I will say the transition to bottles after eating wasn't hard. We still need to work on the sippy but our pedi wants us to just make sure she gets her milk for this month, then we'll check her growth, if all is fine we can go cold turkey with the bottles.

ishka338 · June 2012

Last week we did 2oz. of WCM mixed with 4-5oz. of formula. This week we did equal parts and next week we'll do 4-5oz. of WCM mixed with 2oz. of formula. I'm hoping to get him to all WCM by the end of next week, or by the end of this current formula container we have open. I've tried to do a sippy of just WCM, but he's not a huge fan, but even after I tried the formula mixed in, he still didn't like the milk from a sippy.

I have to admit though, the thought of trying to leave the house with cold milk kinda scares me. I love just bringing the powder and mixing as needed. Oh well!

Wymasa · June 2012

My LO is fully transitioned since last week. I started with sips then slowly added more and more to her formula until it was all wcm. She still takes a bottle after her meals. Trying to move it close together and then will transition to sippy but there is no way she would drink the same amount from her sippy right now. That will be the hardest transition I think.

klovesp95 · June 2012

DD is still nursing quite frequently. I am in no rush to wean but figured I'd see how she'd take to WCM. In the event we decide to do IVF again I won't be able to nurse on the meds so I sort of have that in the back of my mind.

Anyway, I give her a straw sippy of Organic WCM at each meal and she seems to like it but she only has a few sips. She has never been a big drinker, which I assume is fine since she drinks from the tap all the time. I am definitely wasting milk b/c she has never finished a sippy. Then again, she's never finished a sippy of water either. She gets water all day long between meals in a straw sippy.

RingOfFire11 · June 2012

We went cold turkey with WCM after her 1 year appointment. If she didn't like the taste, we planned to start mixing gradually. She sucked it down like it was delish and we haven't turned back - no mixing necessary. She's drinking about 20 oz per day and still drinks quite a bit of water too. We do 3 WCM sippys a day (when she ways up in the morning and then from her 2 naps). She eats regular food about an hour later - closer to when MH and I eat.

chloephoebecali · June 2012

I started by mixing an ounce or two in his formula. He was not a huge fan, but he's never really liked his formula (Elecare) anyway. One day I gave him a mini bottle of straight WCM and he seemed to be okay with it. Never looked back.

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