Talk to me about introducing WCM

[Wonderwall]

How old were your kiddos when you introduced?

How did you do it?

Did you have any issues?

Our little critter will be 11 mos next week. I've been EPing but my supply is dwindling and we are moving through my stash pretty quickly.

So I need to think of a plan B.

Do I do formula? Should I just move straight into WCM?

WwYD?

[Deleted]

12 months (DS) and 10 months (DD)
In a straw cup
No

I'd just do WCM. I did it with DD when I went back to work at 10.5 months. She was fine. I still BF when together. In your case, I'd keep pumping but supplement with WCM, then transition over the next few weeks.

[daisy24342]

DS was 11 months when I started.

We did 1/4 milk, 3/4 formula then 1/2 and 1/2 them full on. It took a week or two. But was relatively easy. He had been BF til 6 months, then formula til 11.

I would just go straight to WCM and skip formula.

[greencrayon]

11 months. We tried sippy cups but she refused them. I put straight WCM in her bottle and she loved it so I knew it wasn't the taste. I went to target and got one of every sippy cup until I found one she liked.

[VillainV]

Just shy of 12 months. C had been eating cheese and yogurt so we had no reason to suspect dairy allergies. We put it in a soppy cup, and he went to town. I swear you'd have thought it had crack in it.

[sent]

We started at 12 months. We had trouble. She would drink 4 oz of milk, and then vomit the entire thing like 2 minutes later. Not all the time, but often enough. She wouldn't vomit formula the same way. She was also having huge explosive poops. After a few weeks of this, the pediatrician said to try Lactaid, but I wanted to try easing her into the milk. We went back to formula for a few weeks, and then started doing milk 1 or 2 bottles at a time, slowly increasing it over the next few months. It took us about 3 months to get to 100% WCM, but she doesn't have the vomit or explosive poop issues anymore and takes it fine.  Now bottle to sippy cup, we haven't succeeded in that transition yet.  Heading to BRU now to look at sippy cups.  

[shelbyann]

Started trying at 11+ months, but she had no interest, and still doesn't at 15 months. I still try once a week or so and occasionally she takes like half an ounce, lol. She eats lots of cheese though!

[smock]

We started giving a mix of wcm and bm at 11.5 mo, since we are in the process of gradually weaning and I wanted her to take wcm to replace dropped nursing sessions.

At first she didn't like wcm straight, but within the week she started enjoying it a bit more.

And we gave it in a straw cup, she stopped bottles at 11 mo.

[auntie]

I started offering some WCM around 10 1/2 months. Prior DS was EBF and refused all bottles. Would only drink water or diluted juice from a straw cup.

He loathed it. I had slightly better success with skim or 1%, but that's not a good choice for a young toddler. I tried slightly warming it and even sweetening it without much success. He never really drank CM until he was in kindie and other kids were drinking it. First 2% chocolate, then 2% or skim white. By about 8, he was finally drinking 3-4 servings of milk most days. As a young teen, I bought a gallon every other day. He got a lot of cheese, yogurt and a vitamin with calcium/Vit D in the meantime. Still kind of does.

[anna7602]

May 25, 2015 12:07:58 GMT -5 VillainV said:

Just shy of 12 months. C had been eating cheese and yogurt so we had no reason to suspect dairy allergies. We put it in a soppy cup, and he went to town. I swear you'd have thought it had crack in it.

DD, DH and I are all lactose intolerant, but can eat cheese and yogurt. I've actually been thinking I will probably skip WCM entirely this time around and try to either up the amount of cheese & yogurt in DS's diet to make sure he gets enough calcium or give him goat's milk if he refuses to give up milk in bottles/cups for a while. 

With DD, once we realized she was lactose-intolerant (around 13 or 14 months), she just stopped getting a bottle, period, if I wasn't with her at the usual times she nursed, and she seemed okay with it. 

[pinotgrig]

I got some great advice in this thread - m.pandce.proboards.com/thread/446667/starting-wcm-11-months

[huskymom]

12 months, went cold turkey and ditched bottles at same time. No issues.

[sunshine608]

11.5 months. I put it in a bottle and he drunk it just fine- didn't really care for the taste so he never finished a bottle. I'm still pumping and have a stash so we basically still using that.

I did start giving him BM cooler and sometimes cold to get him ready for the temperature change.

DS previously had MPI so we went slow. The only thing I noticed was watery/mucousy stool for a day and then it was fine.