When did you introduce WCM?

[rugbywife]

There is a thread on one of my FB mommy groups and some of them are saying as early as 9 months. I don't know why but I thought 12 months was standard. 

[booboo173]

I just did yesterday at 11 months 4 weeks. My best friend is a pedi and was adamant that it should be early. My old and new pedi also said not before a year

[browneyedgirl9]

I started mixing in 2oz of wcm the week before he turned one with his formula. He stopped formula and started only wcm after he turned one.

[Deleted]

12 months with DS, but 10.5 months with DD. It's fine as a food (but not as a main nutrition source) after 9 months, but it can be hard on the digestion.

[vmars]

At 11 months with the blessing of my pedi. I wasn't pumping enough and was able to supplement with my freezer stash until 11 months, but after that I was SOL. She said I didn't need to worry about 2 transitions in 4 weeks and let me start supplementing with WCM. I mixed it with BM to get him used to the taste. He now drinks it fine, but prefers it warmed in a bottle.

[july]

After 12 months.

[cricketwife]

12 months.

[Deleted]

DS is 11 months and I just started a bit the other day.
I'm down to my last 2 cans of formula and he'll be really close to a year when they're gone, so I'm starting the transition now.

I did the same with DD.

I just do a bit at a time, it's by no means a huge source of nutrition.

[catsarecute]

I was wondering about this as well.

[Deleted]

The Canadian and American official pedi lines do vary on this, although there seem to be rogue advice givers on both sides of the border.

[jeaniebueller]

I started mixing WCM and formula at 11 months.

[purplecow0206]

I was having pumping issues and my pedi said we could start supplementing at 9 months, but I did formula and BM until 11 months because I already had the formula then started introducing WCM.

[ringstrue]

I started with like 1oz a day mixed into a human milk bottle at 10 months and upped it gradually from there. I waited until after yogurt was introduced. But my babies are bigger and grow fast so I might have not gone that route with different circumstances.

[heygrey]

we introduce it around 9.5 months in the sense that he would eat cheerios with bananas and homo milk. hands down one of his favourite foods.

i started giving him a little bit in a sippy after 10 months to get used to the idea of drinking it with meals. he seems to like the taste, but doesn't consume a notable amount.

we don't have a pedi, just see interior health for vaccines and well checks. the nurse said that it was okay to introduce it in this manner after 9 months, but not to depend on it as a replacement for formula or breast milk until a year-ish.

[greencrayon]

A bIt after 11 months. She had already dropped to two bottles. She gets between 8-16 oz a day (8-12 oz formula as well).

[shelbyann]

I have offered it a couple of times in the last week (just turned 11 months) in her straw cup with meals, just to see what would happen. I wish I'd gotten her reaction on camera. She was not a fan.

Loves cheese and yogurt though.

[indylady]

In a sippy at 10.5 months here and there, and now at almost 12 months I give DS 2ish ounces with meals. He doesn't drink much of it but I tried using breast milk and it would irritate me to throw it out! With WCM, it's no big deal.

[osulori]

I started mixing some with his formula the week before he turned 1, then went to WCM on his first birthday (we had conveniently ran out of formula the night before).

[arebee]

I have a stupid question about this. If you mix it with formula you would fill a bottle 1/4 milk and 3/4 prepared formula (or whatever ratio) you aren't substituting water for milk right?

[winemaker06]

Around 10.5 months I started giving him 1 oz at a time maybe twice a week to make sure he would tolerate it. There's a kid at daycare who is over 13 months and refusing it, so I wanted to make sure there would be no surprises.

At 11 months I started giving him WCM with his dinner a couple days a week, usually after a fee oz of breastmilk. He turns 1 this week and we'll start giving WCM for dinner every day but BM the rest of the time until my freezer stash is gone.

[curbsideprophet]

I think she was 15 months before we started mixing it with BM to start the transition at daycare. It may have been a little sooner but I know it was not right at 12 months.

[mannah]

Jan 25, 2015 21:36:58 GMT -5 arebee said:

I have a stupid question about this. If you mix it with formula you would fill a bottle 1/4 milk and 3/4 prepared formula (or whatever ratio) you aren't substituting water for milk right?

That's my understanding too.

[gibbinator]

10 months with ds1. He got about 4oz a day. It made him constipated so we switched to goat's milk until 1.5years.

[bananapancakes]

Our doctor said we could start introducing it anytime after 9 months but like @tokenhoser and @vicmo said, more as a complementary thing, not to replace BM. I haven't done it yet.

[changedname]

I was just wondering this last night. DD seems to be kind of weaning and it will be annoying to go formula just for a month.

[degal99]

We started at about 11.5 months just to get her used to the taste.

[biogirl21]

The weekend before he turned one. I started giving him a bit in a sippy and then that week I sent 3 bottles of wcm instead of formula. He downs it in a bottle but is slower with a sippy. Daycare has gotten him off bottles pretty quickly, but he still usually takes one a day of formula.

[GotWine]

Our Pedi recommended starting at 11.5 months.

[simpsongal]

About a week ago - ~11 months 2 weeks. He's still nursing and gets fewer bottles of pumped BM. He doesn't drink a lot of WCM, it's a slow transition. We plan on stopping bottles this week and pushing more WCM.

[soozy87]

The dr. said it was fine at 9 months but we didn't start until 10 months.