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June 2011 Moms
JsMama11
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How much milk is LO drinking?
JsMama11
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I know the guideline is 16-24oz but what is your LO really drinking? I give J a 6oz sippy of milk with each of his meals but he never drinks it all, especially with dinner. I don't like constantly pushing it on him and I'm wondering if he really needs this much each day.
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Re: How much milk is LO drinking?
As long as your LO is eating yogurt and cheese I wouldn't worry about actual milk intake.
On the weekends, probably 4oz or less. I offer it with meals, but she drinks very little. She only wants water! At daycare they do tell me she drinks it, but they don't have an exact amount (they give the kids sippys with each meal/snack). Her doctor wasn't concerned with amount of milk intake. He said aim to get about 3 servings of dairy a day to get enough calcium, but it could be milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.
I should add that I do still BF morning and nights, and send one bottle to day care. At thins point, the bottle is only about 1-2oz BM and 2-3 oz whole milk. I'm hoping to have her done with the bottle and any BM during the day in the next month or so.
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Anywhere from 5-15 oz, that I can measure. He still nurses 3x/day minimum (weekends can be much more).
I offer him a sippy of milk at 3 meals and 1-2 snacks/day when he's home. He also has a cup of water and he cna have that between meals too. He drinks between 1 and 3 oz of milk, 3 times a day.The days he hits double digits of WCM are daycare days.
He loves cheese and alternates loving and hating yogurt, so I don't stress- but it's annoying how variable it is!
Pedi recommended 18oz max, but GI doctor said to offer closer to 24oz to get some more calories into him. We aim for at least 18, but will offer more even if he's had 18...most days he gets 18-20, but occasionally, he'll only get about 15. I do make sure he eats at least one serving of cheese and one of yogurt each day, though.
C still gets a bottle every morning. He throws a WWIII style fit if he doesn't get it, and I haven't been ready to deal with that yet. I offer a straw cup of milk at night. sometimes he drinks the entire thing, sometimes he sips at it. I also offer milk at dinner and throughout the day, but he'll rarely make it through an entire cup.
So altogether... always 9oz in the morning, sometimes 6oz at night, maybe 4-5 throughout the day. I try to make up the rest of the dairy he needs in cheese and yogurt.
DD has 8-12 ounces of mixed WCM and breastmilk at DC, then another 4-5 ounces at home before bed, and then she nurses at night (so, another 4 ounces or so then). So I'd estimate she's usually in the 18-20 ounce range (including both breastmilk and WCM).
She doesn't drink much straight WCM. Even when the proportion of WCM to breastmilk is 3:1, she'll drink the whole bottle or cup, but she will only take a couple of ounces of straight WCM.
She does have yogurt every day, so she gets an extra serving of dairy that way.
I'm honestly not even sure. She drinks probably 3oz or so with each meal, and then usually asks for milk a few other times during the day and we give her 3-4oz. So maybe 12-16oz? She eats a ton of cheese and yogurt too, so I'm not stressing about it.
And gym & MommaA, your babies aren't drinking zero milk, just zero COW's milk
Of course nursing counts!
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All of this. I try to not worry about it, but I do wish he'd just cave & have some already! But he seriously looks like someone is poisoning him every time he takes a sip.
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