When IS food supposed to replace BM/Formula?

[anna7602]

I know that you're always supposed to offer milk first and that food is for experience/texture/playing before they turn a year old. But at what point as you approach the one-year mark is a table food meal supposed to replace a nursing session/bottle? 10 months? 11 months? 12 months on the dot? 

DD didn't reduce her nursing sessions much until about 14/15 months, even though I felt like she was eating a lot of food. 

DS is still only 8 months old, but I'm considering quitting the pump soon. I feel like I nearly have enough in the freezer to get us through the 11-month mark and then I'm taking the whole month leading up to his birthday "off" and won't have the ability to take my freezer stash with me anyway. 

[ssmjlm]

I want to say around 10m she really started doing more food and decreased nursing sessions a bit.

[jeaniebueller]

I will start transitioning to whole milk at 11 months, so I am hoping right around there, her table food consumption will ramp up. She is almost 10 months and even in the last week, she has started eating much more finger foods than before.

[Deleted]

I feel like J reduced nursing sessions around 11 mos. Certainly by a year he was nursing much less frequently and eating more table food. I think 10 to 12 mos is pretty typical.

The girls OTOH, eat massive quantities of food and still nurse 6 to 8 times a day/night at almost 13 mos. I don't think this is typical.

[anna7602]

Apr 1, 2015 8:56:24 GMT -5 @awinter said:

I feel like J reduced nursing sessions around 11 mos. Certainly by a year he was nursing much less frequently and eating more table food. I think 10 to 12 mos is pretty typical.

The girls OTOH, eat massive quantities of food and still nurse 6 to 8 times a day/night at almost 13 mos. I don't think this is typical.

That sounds like my DD at that age. I felt like she spent literally all day with either food or a breast/bottle in her mouth, with the exception of when she was napping! 

[winemaker06]

We started transitioning as early as 10 months, mostly because of distracted nursing. He just wasn't getting very much because he wouldn't stay put, so I started offering more food right after and it became snack time. When the distraction got really bad, I dropped at least one nursing session when he was 10.5 months old, and gave him BM in a cup with his snack.

By 11 months, he was 'weaned' during the day and loved all food. But I would pump to replace some feedings to make sure I had enough to make it to a year sending milk to daycare plus giving him some with meals.

But really I followed his lead. By the 10-11 month mark, I stopped nursing before every meal and limiting his food. If he drank less because he had enough food, so be it. My supply suffered as a result, but I had frozen extra anyway.

[Deleted]

Apr 1, 2015 8:59:59 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Apr 1, 2015 8:56:24 GMT -5 @awinter said:

I feel like J reduced nursing sessions around 11 mos. Certainly by a year he was nursing much less frequently and eating more table food. I think 10 to 12 mos is pretty typical.

The girls OTOH, eat massive quantities of food and still nurse 6 to 8 times a day/night at almost 13 mos. I don't think this is typical.

That sounds like my DD at that age. I felt like she spent literally all day with either food or a breast/bottle in her mouth, with the exception of when she was napping! 

Yes! They eat all the time! It's constant. They will finish nursing and 2 mins later they want a snack. I don't know where they put it all. They still barely weigh 18lbs.

[Queen Mamadala]

My other kids did not consistently eat table foods (as a primary source of food) until 12+ months. I introduced goat's milk somewhere around 11-12 months, but it wasn't a lot. They were still nursing 6+ times a day at that age.

[Deleted]

When baby wants. DS was primarily breastfed to 18 months. DD was eating quite a lot by a year. The kid knows what they want to do, and it's easiest to roll with it.

[catsarecute]

The formula to WCM transition is completely scary to me. DD will be one in 12 days (TEARS!!) and I'm ready to be done with bottles and formula but she LOVES bottles and still takes them every 3 hours during the day (6 a day total). I have NO idea how to replace those with cows milk. Do I just increase her food amount and give her 4 ounces of milk in a sippy at each meal? HELP.

[purplecow0206]

Our pedi wanted us to have 3 "meals" interspersed with 4 milk/formula feedings by 9 months, and slowly increase the amount of food from there. We had an easy time with it because A was so into foods from the time she tasted it.

[laurack]

I think when Matilda turned one, daycare just took away all bottles and started offering milk in a sippy only. SHe never would drink it so from 12 months on she drank only water from a cup and no bottles. she still nursed 2x a day for 2 more months.

It seems crazy because the week before she turned one she was drinking 3 bottles a day at daycare. then suddenly, none. and she seemed fine with it!

[Deleted]

DD dropped her bottles around 9 months. I stopped pumping two weeks later when she was still refusing bottles/cups of milk. She still nursed regularly, but refused milk at the nanny's house. It was at that time that she drastically increased her food intake. Around 10.5 months, she lowered her nursing amount to only morning/evening, stopped MOTN nursing, and only a bit of daytime nursing when she is with me. She still refuses milk out of a cup, but drinks plenty of water.

[laurack]

William didn't really consume food until 7 months. Maybe 8 months before a noticeable amount was going in his mouth v the dogs mouth.

Now he LOVES food and gets angry if he doesn't get his meals. He eats a lot but still drinks 3 bottles at daycare. He definitely nurses less from me though, like on the weekend 4-5 hours could pass without him nursing.

[Velar Fricative]

It never did. DD was still consuming 30 oz of formula by her birthday despite eating solids reasonably well. But she transitioned fine to half that amount of WCM.

[sent]

DD is such a terrible solids eater at 16 months. We offer solids formally at 3 meals + snack time in her high chair, leave her snacks in a bowl in her play area, and sometimes follow her around with a spoon. She will eat, but once she is full, she will aggressively swat your hand away, throw the food off the tray, or she will eat it and puke it out 2 minutes later. She is still sucking down milk and sometimes formula in the MOTN like she's still 4 months old. Last night I wasn't home and my mom fed her dinner. She rejected the lentils and rice she happily ate the previous Tuesday nights 2 weeks in a row, ate some mashed potatoes and a pouch, and then woke up MOTN twice to suck down 7 oz of formula. Contrast that to last week when she ate the same dinner and STTN.

At this point I think we've managed to reduce her bottles by 1 bottle from her highest intake.

I was telling my mom how I clearly remember a mother at stroller class giving her 12 month old a bagel and the baby sat there and gnawed on the bagel for the whole class.  DD won't touch bagels at all and will barely eat bread. 

I'm going to give it 2 more weeks and maybe put in a call to her doctor.

[imbatman]

Oh thank you for this thread. It's kind of what I was trying to get at with mine yesterday. She just doesn't eat enough food right now for me to even consider taking away a bottle for a meal. I hope it comes naturally to me, but I just feel like I have no idea what I'm doing when I feed her. Although last week I didn't give her a bottle when she got home and she happily replaced it with two pouches and puffs.

[ringstrue]

I wouldn't plan on a certain date. Switching to WCM doesn't mean the solid foods will then come first.

Honestly I don't think I really switched until after 1.5 or closer to 2.

[ringstrue]

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Ages 0 to 12 months

Infants ages 0 to 12 months of age should not consume cow’s milk, and should drink breast milk or infant formula instead. According to MedlinePlus, newborns should consume 16 to 24 ounces of breast milk or infant formula each day, infants ages 4 to 6 months old should consume 28 to 45 ounces of breast milk or formula every day, babies ages 6 to 8 months should drink breast milk or formula three to five times per day and babies ages 8 to 12 months old should drink breast milk or infant formula three to four times each day.


Ages 1 to 2

You can offer your child whole cow’s milk after 1 year of age, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Children between the ages of 1 and 2 require a higher-fat diet for proper brain development, which is why whole milk is recommended. At this age, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limiting cow’s milk to 32 ounces, or 4 cups, per day. KidsHealth encourages children ages 1 to 2 to consume 16 to 24 ounces, or 2 to 3 cups, of whole milk each day.


Ages 2 to 8

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends children ages 2 to 3 consume at least 2 cups from the dairy group each day, and children ages 4 to 8 consume at least 2.5 cups from the dairy group on a daily basis. This may include cow’s milk, soy milk, yogurt, cottage cheese or regular cheese. Your pediatrician may recommend switching to 2-percent milk at some point after age 2.


Ages 9 and Older

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[catsarecute]

Apr 1, 2015 12:08:43 GMT -5 @simpledog said:

Apr 1, 2015 9:36:06 GMT -5 catsarecute said:

The formula to WCM transition is completely scary to me. DD will be one in 12 days (TEARS!!) and I'm ready to be done with bottles and formula but she LOVES bottles and still takes them every 3 hours during the day (6 a day total). I have NO idea how to replace those with cows milk. Do I just increase her food amount and give her 4 ounces of milk in a sippy at each meal? HELP.

I'm here. We are still at 30 ounces of formula + 3 meals :/.

I've been cutting back some of her bottles. She would get 6 5.5 bottles a day. Now I usually do 3 5.5 oz and 3 4 ounce bottles and give her a sippy of water throughout the day and with meals. She seems to be doing fine with the lower amount, even though it isn't that much less. Hoping it makes the transition easier.

[SJ]

Hmm we offer food before bottles usually. Oops!

She is 9 months and eats 3 meals/day plus an afternoon snack at day care.

So wake up, bottle, breakfast, bottle, nap, lunch, bottle, nap, snack, bottle, dinner, bottle, bed.

Sometimes she only takes an ounce or two from the bottle. Basically don't listen to me

[thebreakfastclub]

At 10m DS dropped his lunch bottle for table food. 2 months later, he ate one 4 oz bottle per day. I think he was an unusual eater though. He didn't need to eat overnight or even before bed for very long.