How do you start your morning with your LO? Milk question....

Hennessy · November 2013

We have a 14 month old who is still getting a "bottle" of milk immediately after he wakes up (approx 6:30am). It's not actually in a bottle anymore but it's now in a sippy cup with a nipple like top because he still won't really drink milk from any other cups we've tried. We also still warm this milk because he will refuse it if it's not warmed.

Throughout the rest of the day he will drink water from a straw cup... but not milk. So, this morning milk is all he will have all day long (approx 8 oz). I'm hesitant to do away with it because I'm worried he just won't drink any milk ever. It will normally fill him up until he has a "normal" breakfast around 9am,plus,we usually share a banana with him about an hour after the milk.

So, I'm just curious.. do you start your day immediately with a normal breakfast, or do you still start with a large cup of milk, or bottle?

maryxc1 · November 2013

DS gets breakfast about 15 minutes after he gets up. He gets a sippy cup of milk with his breakfast and drinks some of it. He is 17 months now but when we dropped that last morning nursing session at 13 months I had to immediately get him breakfast or he lost it. I think breakfast took his mind off his milk.

ktpaladino · November 2013

My LO drinks it from a straw sippy right after he gets up, while we are snuggling watching cartoons together. He also has some right after dinner. I would say he only drinks about 5 ounces each time though, so a total of around 10 ounces a day. He will now drink it cold, but I still warm it a little bit for him. From about 12-17 months he wouldn't really drink much of it if I gave it to him cold. He eats breakfast (usually a pouch and cereal/waffle/bagel) about 30-45 min after he's had his milk. I think anything above 8 ounces per day is what pediatricians recommend, so I think if that's the only milk he's getting that day, he's fine. I would double check on that though. There are many other foods with good fats and calcium you can give them if they're not a big milk drinker.

aboynamedbarry · November 2013

I wouldn't be too worried about the milk first thing. We still nurse first thing and on the rare occasion that we don't she gets a sippy ofmilk. Eats breakfast 1-2 hours later. I'd not worry about warming the milk either, eventually, he will grow out of it no reason to rush and force it

emberlee3 · November 2013

DD only drinks water. She took a bedtime bottle of formula until about 15 months, then we got rid of that. She eats tons of food. Milk is not necessary. She eats breakfast as soon as she gets up, and usually has a 2nd and 3rd breakfast at daycare

RMama2012 · November 2013

DS gets milk right away in a straw cup at 18m. He drinks at least half by breakfast and then finishes it either during or just after breakfast. I would continue to try the straw cup with milk but wouldn't take away the sippy cup of milk if you can't. It's not a big deal at 15m at all. Even if she drinks from that cup till 2, it's better than no milk in my opinion. My DS still gets so many calories from milk.

LEIGHLOVE09 · November 2013

DD is 16 months and gets coconut milk when she wakes up and then eats breakfast usually about an hour later. I don't see anything wrong with it. She's only 28% for weight and not the best eater of food so I'm definitely not cutting the milk out

singingirl96 · November 2013

Around the time he's waking up we prepare his sippy cup with warm milk and will walk into his room with it ready to give to him. We either hold him on our lap while he drinks it (snuggle time) or he'll come to bed with us. He usually downs the whole thing. We get ready to go to work, and get him ready... drive him to daycare and once he gets there, he'll have breakfast. At home on the weekends, we'll snuggle or be lazy for a while before we go downstairs and have breakfast.

doggiemom4 · November 2013

We get up, diaper change, and then breakfast.

Breakfast includes but not limited to:

Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, banana, 6oz yogurt, mini blueberry waffles, oatmeal, toast

And either watered down oj or apple juice or just water.

It's usually a mix of 2 or 3 items depending what he has.

He gets a bottle right before nap time-6oz bottle (1 or 2 oz formula and rest is CM)

meg_2006 · November 2013

DS still drinks a cup of milk right away. I think it's like a comfort thing. I'm not concerned about it since he still eats plenty for breakfast (it's his biggest meal of the day). He also won't drink it unless it's in a straw cup. Must be some weird psychological thing... At that age I still zapped it for a few seconds. He's gotten used to it being cold now, though.

lana22 · November 2013

LO (23 months) switched to cow's milk around 13.5 months and for a few months he had a cup of milk, then breakfast. we slowly transitioned to breakfast with milk, but over the past month or two it's evolved to cups of milk and water when we first come down, and then breakfast maybe 30-60 min after he wakes up. this works out well b/c i can feed his younger brother before we start breakfast.

jenb_99 · November 2013

I don't see a problem with a sippy cup of warm milk in the morning, especially at 14 mo. Like you said, it's not a bottle, and if it's the only way he'll drink milk I say let him have it. Toddlers are fickle; he might decide in a few weeks that he doesn't need the comfort of warm milk anymore and will start taking it cold. Or he might decide he doesn't like milk at all, in which case you can offer other dairy products such as yogurt and cheese.

LyndseylovesHugh · November 2013

DD gets up and we head to the living room after her diaper change and what not. She usually says good morning to the dogs and plays for for 15-20 minutes and then I give her a straw sippy cup of cold milk right out of the fridge while I make hers and my breakfast. She usually does not finish that milk while I make her breakfast so then she has it with her meal too. I actually do this with all meals because as soon as she sees me start to make food she gets impatient, even if she showed no signs of hunger before that, so the milk buys me some time. I leave out a regular sippy cup of water all day, she usually puts it in the fridge of her play kitchen and goes and gets it whenever she is thirsty.

vrj0522 · November 2013

We start with a 6 oz bottle and breakfast is 30 min later. The way I see it, a habit of milk first thing in the morning is not something I'd ever have a problem with.

cedenton · November 2013

Will he drink milk out of the sippy during the day? What's the problem with that? I'm assuming you're talking about a Nuk sippy because they have the soft silicone (nipple-like) spouts. My son still uses that first thing in the morning and at daycare. When at home we mostly do straw cups except for the first morning milk.

My son is HANGRY in the mornings so I actually give him his milk (we warm it in the mornings, it's the only time of day he won't take it cold) propped on a pillow on the changing table. It's the only way he doesn't fight his morning diaper change.

I used to then take him directly downstairs for a real breakfast, but at his new daycare he gets breakfast as soon as they walk in the door. Now I just give him a snack like a fruit bar. He has to have something or he's impossible to deal with.

ETA: We don't do more than 4-5 oz of milk at a time because he has a tendency to spit up (still).

Mrs.RockyM · November 2013

DD gets a sippy of milk when she first wakes, as I'm preparing breakfast for her and DD1. She'll typically only drink 3-4 or so ounces, but she drinks about that much throughout the day at all her meals, and sometimes at snacks too. I think she's still low on milk, so we push dairy (yogurt, cheese, etc.) throughout the day.

jennajoybeck · November 2013

DS (12 months) eats a normal breakfast first thing every morning. Oatmeal and a banana...right now he's drinking water with it, but it think I'm going to start giving him whole milk with breakfast now that he's one. I'm glad he loves water, though. I really haven't given him much juice (diluted when I did), because he does so well with water.

zbeesma86 · November 2013

DD is like DH- they need to wake up and acclimate before they ingest anything. While I can wake up and eat a huge breakfast!!

She wakes up and there is a sippy of water on the table by her crib. She usually grabs it and sip on it while I change her diaper and get her dressed for the day- then we go in and see if DH is up and moving around then open windows/finish folding laundry/clean up (15-20 mins tops upstairs).
Then we come downstairs and we put her in her high chair- I will put some cheerios and some banana or pear on her tray while DH or I whip up breakfast- and OJ- she LOVES OJ.

She isn't really a big milk drinker- she maybe drinks a full cup a day. She'd rather have water or OJ (we only offer OJ at breakfast- then milk with lunch and dinner and water with snacks and throughout the day)

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