Refusing whole milk

[lucky3]

My daughter is turning one in 9 days. I've started mixing breast milk or formula with whole milk for her bottles. When I am at home we nurse. She is ok with a breast milk and whole milk bottle but completely rejecting formula and whole milk or straight whole milk. I'm over pumping and have dropped my sessions down to 1 in an attempt to stop pumping after her birthday. I will continue to nurse when we are together. The bottles are being warmed.

How do I get her to drink milk?

[fbf2006]

My 23 month old still doesn't drink whole milk. We give him lots of yogurt.

[lucky3]

She also refuses from a straw cup. What do I do when she would get a bottle? Offer a snack?

[zeewifeandmama]

Neither of my kids are good milk drinkers. They eat a crapton of yogurt, cheese, strawberries and kale/spinach

[anna7602]

I wouldn't push it. Just work on dropping the bottles without any kind of replacement. As long as she gets calcium from other sources, there's no need to fill up on WCM.

[anna7602]

Mar 9, 2015 17:19:55 GMT -5 lucky3 said:

She also refuses from a straw cup. What do I do when she would get a bottle? Offer a snack?

Yes. You could try liquid yogurt if she'll go for that, but even just a cheese stick or spoon-fed yogurt is fine.

[mae141]

DD will not drink cow milk. She's 14 months. She makes such a face when I give it to her, like how could I do such a thing? We tried in bottles, straw cups, and sippies. She still nurses when we are together, and she eats a ton of yogurt and cheese, so I'm not worried about it. I'll keep offering from time to time, and maybe one day she'll like it. She drinks water from a straw, so she's getting plenty of fluids.

[badtzmaru22]

For DD, we mixed it with coconut milk for a bit. Coconut milk is sweeter, closer to BM taste. She loved yogurt, so she had that daily as well. I also never put anything besides BM in a bottle. We switched to the nuk soft spout sippies for milk. She hated straw cups and other sippies for a long time. The coconut milk transition felt like forever at the time, but was maybe only a month or so until she would drink WCM on it's own.

[speckledfrog]

We started DS1 at 12 months and at our 15 month appointment I aksed our pedi about it, because he would drink like 2-8 oz a day and the pedi wasn't worried about it at all. Just keep offering to her and eventually she'll drink some. FWIW, DS1 still isn't a big milk drinker. I think some kids just aren't.

[shelbyann]

My DD will not drink WCM out of any vessel. She eats lots of yogurt and cheese. Pedi said to just make sure she gets calcium and vitamin D rich foods along with healthy fats and not to worry about milk.

She likes water from a straw cup and I'm still nursing her.

[carolinagirl831]

We never successfully did until dd was 18 months. At age one , dd rejected her bottles of formula. We could never get her to drink milk. She ate cheese, cottage cheese and yogurt , lots of dairy but hates milk. Even now at two she drinks maybe 1/4-1/2 cup a day. I stressed a lot about it, but this board and her pediatrician stressed to me it was ok! Dd is perfectly healthy just drinking water and eating dairy
We tried every kind of milk and even back to formula to no avail. I was way more stressed than I should have been

[lucky3]

Thank you for the reassurance. She loves cheese and yogurt and is still very interested in nursing. I'll offer formula until our current stash is empty and then try not to worry about her milk hate. The face she makes when taking a sip of milk is terrible