Switching to regular milk at 1...input please...

crystaleyes39 · October 2012

Do you plan on switching cold turkey at 1 year to regular milk instead of formula/BM? Also what kind of milk are you going to use?

Are you going to still offer the milk in a bottle or just sippy cups? My girls are 10 months (were preemies though) and still not catching on to a sippy. I'm hoping by a year we have them down but was wondering what all of your plan is?

ALSO, how much of just regular milk do you offer?

Sorry for all the questions...1st time mom here...

brighteyes2123 · October 2012

I'd like to quit cold turkey when ds is a year next month, but will probably start weaning from breast and offer WCM at 11.5 months. I'll probably get 1 percent milk so I can still enjoy drinking it... ds knows how to drink from a sippy cup but doesn't always like too, sometimes he'll just play with it. I think the proper amount of milk for 12 to 24 months is like 16 oz... I'm also a FTM!

NiniJ55 · October 2012

It all depends. At 1 yrs old DS was pretty heavy on the solids so I was able to just elimiate all bottles (I was EPing at the time) and move on to regular and sippy cups. He was still getting 1 bottle in the middle of the night and that was regular milk followed by a little water. In addition to that one bottle a day. He had a 1/2 cup of milk with breakfast and 1/2 cup of milk with dinner and maybe another 1/2 another point during the day. A total of 12-16oz of milk for the entire day.

DD on the other hand is just not an eater like he was. She does well on her solids -- but I just don't see going cold turkey with her. Unless something changes drastically (all of a sudden she only wants to eat real food) she will probably still be using formula for nutrition until at least a couple of months or so after her first birthday.

We will be transitioning to Almond milk because she is allergic to dairy (also allergic to egg and peanuts). Since almond milk is not that high in fat we need to make sure she is getting enough fat from her diet.

ETA: DS was doing so well on solids that we actually started weaning off BM around 11 months. I don't expect to start weaning early with DD.

blu-eyedwife · October 2012

Here's what we've been doing.

At 1 year (October 2) I began the weaning from pump process. I cut down one pumping session a week, so he was still getting mostly breastmilk, but I was relying more on my freezer stash. We introduced WCM to see how it would go and if we'd need to mix in breastmilk, but he took to it fine, so we just started giving it to him every now and again instead of water with a meal.

I'm now not pumping at all, just using my freezer stash of breastmilk during the day while he's at daycare, nursing when home. I have about 2 weeks left of breastmilk in the freezer. I send in 2 cups of breastmilk a day, and if he needs more milk, daycare gives him WCM.

After the freezer stash is gone in 2 weeks, he'll just get whole milk at daycare, nursing at home. He gets a cup with lunch and snack.

shortstuff15 · October 2012

We won't switch cold turkey but will start adding whole milk to her bottles at about 10 months. Just one ounce and then 7 ounces formula. We'll slowly up the whole milk until at about 12 months she is on straight whole milk. I don't push to loose the bottles so whenever she wants to drop bottles we will drop bottles. Right now she gets 4 bottles a day for about 15 ounces of formula total so it could be a while before we drop bottles! I already offer regular whole milk in a sippy at lunch but she doesn't really drink it because she's just had a bottle only about 1/2 hour before.

Keep in mind though that here (Canada) it seems doctors and the health system are less rigid about when to introduce whole milk. They encourage you to start introducing it at 9 months so what I am doing isn't all that out of the ordinary.

kerischrader · October 2012

brighteyes2123:
I'd like to quit cold turkey when ds is a year next month, but will probably start weaning from breast and offer WCM at 11.5 months. I'll probably get 1 percent milk so I can still enjoy drinking it... ds knows how to drink from a sippy cup but doesn't always like too, sometimes he'll just play with it. I think the proper amount of milk for 12 to 24 months is like 16 oz... I'm also a FTM!

Pretty sure your supposed to give whole milk, they NEED the fat. Dbl check with your Dr. ...Besides, buying an extra gallon of milk isn't that expensive for the health of your LO.

Jen0204 · October 2012

We're going to ask about this tomorrow at their 9 month appointment. If the doctor is on board with it then at 11 months we're going to start introducing whole milk by replacing one ounce of formula with it (in the same bottle, we'll mix it). Over the month we'll increase how much milk they get and decrease the formula so that by a year they're off of it completely. If the doctor prefers then we'll wait until 1 year and then start that (which I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case since the girls were preemies). My sister tried to go cold turkey with my nephew and he refused to drink the milk, so she tried the gradual approach and it worked well. It probably depends on the baby and what they like.

Leap08 · October 2012

With my oldest we went cold turkey to whole milk at 1 yr. She did sippies of milk with meals and would drink maybe 2 additional bottles during the day. After a month or so we phased out bottles completely. She did still drink additional milk in a sippy throughout the day, though. She slowly dropped that additional milk over the course of 6 months or so. We'll do a similar transition with the little one.

tonychelle · October 2012

We just started following the advice of the doc. She said start adding 1 oz of formula per bottle then up it slowly after that. We just started doing that this week to be a little ahead of her 1 year appt on Nov 16 to make sure no problems. She said use whole milk too.

Also, we use 3-4 sippy cups a day and just bottles when she wakes, at nap and bedtime.

vanessa11411 · October 2012

I started weaning slowly for the past month. I've managed to knock out 2 nursing sessions. So all I have left right now is morning afternoon and night. I'm working on taking out the afternoon one and plan on still nursing for another month longer for the morning and night. I'm afraid to quit cold turkey. LO loves the boob and it might be too much for him if I just take it all away at once.

capulet · October 2012

I still nurse DS full time, so I'm not going to switch cold turkey to milk at one year, but I will start offering it to him. I give him a sippy with water sometimes, not sure he's gotten the hang of it yet though. With DD I felt like it took her forever (basically until I weaned her) to drink enough whole milk that it didn't go back before she finished even the smallest carton. I can't stand whole milk straight, but it makes wicked hot chocolate, so we drank a lot of that when she was a toddler to use up what she didn't drink.

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