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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
jgallegos0316
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cow's milk
I breats fed for 7 months but , becasue if several drops in supply, i had to switch to formula at 7 months. My question is, my Lo will be 1 next week... Has anyone tried cows milk with their child yet? What are your plans strategies for switching?? cold turkey?? I do know i will be using orgnic only...
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Re: cow's milk
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Diarrhea, terrible diaper rash, and he was in pain while digesting milk. It was awful to watch. Until I could get ahold of his pedi, I took him off the milk (fed him just formula again) and within 12 hours, he was back to normal. He's doing really well on the soy milk, after almost a month.
For some reason I want to say 6-12oz of milk is recommended, plus extra water for hydration. They don't need nearly as much cow milk as they needed BM/formula. Basically, I will serve him milk with meals and offer him water in between. That is, if he ever gets the hang of the sippy cup!
We have the girls on WCM. At 11 months (per our pediatrician's recommendation) we gave them a straight glass of it and they did well with it, but then we mixed it with formula just to use up what we had (so we would do 2 or 4 ounces of formula, then add milk to that). We finished up last week. We only give them WCM in a sippy cup because we wanted to try to break the bottle habit at the same time, and that went pretty well. For the first few days we would start off using the sippy cup and end up pouring the rest into the bottle and let them finish it off that way. Now we don't even offer a bottle anymore, although I do put an extra ounce in the sippy cup since with the straw cups it can be tough to get it all out.
Our pediatrician said that they ideally need 3 servings of dairy/day. He said it could be three servings of milk (8 ounces each) or we could replace a serving or two with things like yogurt or cheese. The girls never drank 24 ounces of even formula in a day so what we do is offer 8 ounces of milk three times a day (of which they usually drink 5-7 ounces) and if I make scrambles eggs I'll put a little milk in them, if I make oatmeal I'll make it with milk instead of water, and we give them cheese or yogurt once or twice a day usually.
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i started giving my son wcm at 10 months he is nearly 3. now he is fine.