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I need help with milk beginner

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We gradually transitioned ds over to milk and this week he has been on all milk (he was on formula). He still drinks milk from the bottle and has sippies of water / juice at snack and meal time. This week at daycare he hasn't been drinking his bottles well at all, sometimes refusing them. He does eat breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack which are all stage 2's and yogurt / cheerios for snack. But yesterday his teacher said that she tried giving him a bottle, he refused, but still acted like he was starving so she fed him another stg 2 and he was fine. For dinner he will eat a little of what we have, mac n chz, chicken, etc, and a veggie puree, but he mostly just picks at it so I don't know if he's actually getting full. He isn't completely on table foods yet because of a gag issue that he has.

The last 3 nights he has woken up once or twice to drink a bottle of milk. I know he's hungry becaue I can hear his tummy growling. I know that milk isn't filling him up as much as the formula did but I was wondering if anyone has gone through this when their dc was first transitioned to milk. 

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  • AggieDeeAggieDee

    Have you tried giving him milk in the sippy and let him have at different times throughout the day? 

     

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  • AugustaBride04AugustaBride04 member
    For what it's worth, we just started our milk transition this week.  DD was on formula bottles 4 X day and 3 meals a day.  We switched to milk in the sippy only and we are keeping the nighttime bottle of formula for a couple more weeks until she gets used to the milk.  I will admit, I have been worried all this week b/c DD was taking about 20 oz formula a day and now will take only between 7 - 11 oz per day. We supplement with water in between meals too.  I just make sure that she eats really good at her 3 meals and added an afternoon snack. DD is on about 75% table foods.  I was afraid that she would start waking at night b/c she was hungry but has continued sleeping her 12 hours at night.  My advice would be if he's refusing the bottles, he needs to make up the calories somewhere else, so maybe add more to his meals and snacks - definitely his supper or last meal of the day.  Good luck. The milk transition has been hard for us too.
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  • axr8111axr8111 member
    Maybe try switching to sippy cups. We did this and I was nervous about his fluid intake because it went down drastically. Dr said to just give lots of dairy and soup to hopefully get the fluid and milk substitute and to offer him the sippy often. It took about 4 days before I felt like he totally got it. The nice thing was we switched to milk and got off the bottle all in one step and so now no more bottles with bedtime which I was stressed about. Good luck.
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  • Dec31stBrideDec31stBride

    DS was on a drinking strike for about 2 weeks (getting maybe 6 oz per day of water and milk combined), then suddenly accepted his fate. We'd transitioned to all sippy cups because the milk was the issue, not the bottle. We gave alternate forms of calcium / dairy - yogurt and cheese. He wasn't dehydrated, so I didn't get alarmed. He also started eating more food.

    Good luck getting through it. I'd be careful about offering a bottle in the middle of the night, because it could easily become just a habit.

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  • tommygirl03tommygirl03

    Dec31stBride,

    You have just made me feel a whole lot better.  I've been working on the milk & sippy transition since DD was 10.5 months (because I KNEW it was going to be bad).

    She has always been a horrible drinker (the most formula she ever took in 1 day was 24oz, and a REALLY good day was 20-22oz).  It's tough, too, because she's on the tiny side. 

    Anyway, we're still working on it, and yesterday she had no bottles, only sippys, and about 10-11oz total (milk & formula combined).  Today, all of 2oz so far.  And I've spent the better part of her waking hours taking the milk sippy in and out of the fridge.

    It makes for a very stressed out mommy.

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