How much cow milk is your one year old drinking?

[papal]

Angie, have you tried heating up the milk so it is blood warm? Have you tried Organic milk.. i don't drink milk so I don't know but dh swears it tastes better than regular store milk. Maybe a lot of hooting and hollering when he does drink it?

[alkagift]

Hmmm. I'm not sure he's going to want that imitation stuff as long as he's getting the real thing! ;-) Honestly, my DS was only interested in milk after I started the weaning process of dropping a nursing session, specifically the one closest to the evening meal. As I dropped sessions, I added milk. Then he was more interested--although he didn't really come close to drinking a full 16 oz in a day for a couple of months. These days DS gets milk with the three main meals but not snack time. Rashmi's idea of warming it might work too. I was resistant to starting that since I thought it was a bit of a hassle. I thought Lori said once that she put a bit of juice in her son's milk as a way of making it sweeter.

Allison
Mommy to Matthew Clayton, 5/19/03

[new_mommy25]

What I've been doing is offering milk with meals and snacks. I usually offer it two to three times a day. During one meal he gets a water/juice combo because he takes iron supplements and the juice helps with absorbtion. Though he really doesn't drink the juice either. During the day I always have a sippy of water out so he can take a sip whenever he is thirsty.

I realize that he is not drinking the milk because we are still nursing so often. But I'm afraid if I cut down on nursing he still won't drink milk and that could lead to problems. I know they need the fat from milk so I have been trying to offer alternatives. Usually it is in the form of cheese which he loves. He also hates yogurt. I've tried many different brands/flavors/mixtures and he rejects all of it. Lately he has been into scrambled eggs which I make with butter to add more fat. I hope I am doing the right thing.

[TraciG]

My doc just told me just dont go over 24 oz so I think you're fine, tomorrow we're trying all milk, the last few days we've been giving half formula half milk with no problem .

[todzwife]

Angie- you are doing almost the same thing I am doing with Dallin. He doesn't like milk either. I buy a quart each week and he *maybe* drinks a third of it. I am going to splurge and get organic to see if that helps. It also helped when it was at room temp. He hates anything cold.
Right now he's nursing in the AM about 6 AM (then goes back to sleep most of the time)
Breakfast at 8 (a pancake, toast or some fruit)
Snack after morning nap (yogurt, fruit)
Lunch at about noon-usually a grilled cheese sandwich cut into small peices as he only has 1 tooth right now...
Very short nursing session- sometimes
A snack when he gets up around 2ish- usually cheese or a cereal bar
Dinner is usually what we are eating, ground up in the food processor
Snack in the bath tub (don't ask :P)- fruits :) at 7:30
Bed at 8
I am still waking him at 11 before I go to bed to nurse, just to top him off...when I find more things he likes to eat, I will drop that nursing sessions too...

[papal]

Scrambled eggs sounds like a great idea.

I make toast, put lots of butter on it and then grate some cheddar cheese over it. She loves it.
Or just get a stick of cheese from the block. Again, she loves it.
Bananas are an easy and nutritious breakfast. Does he like bananas? Maybe you can smoothie them into the milk and see if he will take that? Last night I put some rice cereal into her milk and gave it to her.. she really liked that too.

Just some other ideas.

[new_mommy25]

Lol! I'm just imagining little Dallin in the bath tub munching on fruit!! That is so precious. I hope you have a picture :)

[netne]

Noah didn't really get into cow's milk until he weaned. About 13 1/2 months he just decided he was all grown up--started walking, stopped nursing and started drink 12 ounces of milk a day from his sippy cup. It's funny how those things happen, and sometimes they just decide what they're ready for and when. Until then we just tried to make up the difference with yobaby and cheese to get enough calcium in his diet. Cheese on everything, yum! We always made his cereal with milk (no water) to sneak in a few more ounces.

[essnce629]

Conner will be 15 months old this month and I haven't given him any cow's milk yet. I was told that as long as he is still breastfeeding there's no need/rush to introduce cow's milk. He still nurses 3 times a day and loves his yogurt and cheese so I haven't really thought much of it yet. I planned to wait until he was 15 months to introduce cow's milk in order to avoid any digestive problems, allergies, etc. I did try to give him a little goat milk a few weeks ago since I heard it's less allergenic and has more nutrients, but he would just spit it out (I don't blame him, it smelled like powdered milk!) I just barely started giving him juice with his breakfast (about 2oz mixed with 2oz of water) and the rest of the day he has his sippy cup filled with water to drink whenever he likes. I also plan on buying the organic whole milk when I do introduce whole milk. Most people tell me it tastes better than the non-organic. I don't plan on mixing it with water.

***Latia
Conner 8/19/03

[andie16]

Another one-year-old (well, 13+months now) not really drinking any cow's milk. She gets some in her cereal at breakfast and at dinner and she loves her yogurt and cheese, but she will not drink the milk from the cup. I have tried her regular sippy cups and some straw cups too. She'll take a sip and then when she realizes it's milk and not water she lets it dribble out and then throws the cup on the floor. She's still nursing so I guess that's it, but like some other PPs said, I'm reluctant to wean her from the nursing until I'm sure she'll get enough calcium by drinking milk. I think part of it is that I'm just not ready to wean her yet and that's fine because it's still working for both of us.

Andie and Daisy (9/23/03)