I'm trying to wean my DD off forumla, she turned 1 at the start of the month. I found that cows milk gives her terrible wind and tummy aches so she's having lactose free cows milk at daycare and has been fine. I'm also going to try that at home and I will try some soy. I will try normal cows milk again in a few months time.
I find for myself that normal milk gives me bloating and terrible wind pain as well as making me rush to the loo straight after drinking it, so perhaps both DD and I have an intollerance to it, though I'm not yet going to say that DD is intollerant, I will try it a bit more. She doesn't react badly to yoghurt.
I would advise keeping a tin of forumla on hand while introducing milk just in case. We went from buying 4 tins a fortnight down to last fortnight only buying 2 tins for a whole fortnight. We are also decreasing the number of bottles DD has and offering solid food first. She's now having a bottle at about 7am (formula), then one at 12:30 (lactose free or a half/half mix of formula & lactose free) after she's had lunch, then she doesn't have another bottle until about 8pm (formula but will be trying lactose free milk as of this week) before bed. If she wakes in the middle of the night she'll have one then as well
Never touched it. It's expensive milkshake to me! A balanced diet for a toddler really ISN'T that hard to achieve, and as someone up above mentioned, there are plenty of vitamin supplements on the market if you can see bubs isn't doing too great. As for all the immunity crap on the ads - if you can continue to BF just ONCE a day (so bedtime or first thing if you're out at work all day) you will be doing vastly more than the formula can do in that direction.
Yeah, I did think it was all just a big waste of money...stupid ads . Just wanted to make sure.
At this stage I will try to continue to do BF's morning and night, and maybe a cows milk during the day (have given him cows milk in his cereal for a couple of months now - all ok) - for the days I work (I'll be 3 days part time) and try to do a BF during the day on non work days. But if I do dry up (probably likely - as he is starting to feed less at the moment and supply has been dropping) - at least I now feel comfortable giving him cows milk alone.
Both my DD's have had toddler milk after 12 months
DD1 refused cows milk until just before she turned 2....
DD2 is still on toddler milk but this is because she never took to solids...only the last 6 weeks she has stsrted solids, so ive cut 4 bottles down to 2 now. She doent like cows milk yet either, so until she does....ill continue with FF her
A relative of mine had a terrible time getting his DS to eat anything and the paed blamed it on formula. At 18 months he only had bottles and at 2 he was only eating very small amounts and still having bottles! Then they got him off formula and he would only drink juice and scream for a juice bottle every hour because he was so used to a liquid diet.
That was enough to put me off introducing toddler milk because even though I b/f those ads do make you think it might be a good idea to feed it to your child. Especially the recent ones saying that their immune system needs to be supported till they are 3 I can feel myself being brainwashed
u can use the 6 month formula up to about 18 months i think each one is different but most of them say it on the back of the can.
the toddler drinks are just like baby milo. tho i was told that a couple of those pree made up ones in the fridge is good for if they are sick and not eating. we have had them when DS has been sick and just wouldn't eat.
you can get kids cows milk. but i didn't bother as DS generally had a balanced diet. we started to introduce cows milk with breakfast at 9 months and then in the bottle at about 11-12 months. as far as i know its the lactos thats the worry so lactos free milk is a good starter too.
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. Just wanted to make sure.
I can feel myself being brainwashed
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