For DS we just switched 1 bottle every second day for straight cows. Had no problems at all, he didnt know the difference. I just did it in his bottles otherwise too many transitions i think will cause problems in the process. I think it wasnt until he was about 16 months or so that i changed him over to sippy cups for his milk.. just bought some and started calling them his bottle. They are Disney Pooh Bear ones with yellow and green lids (2 in a pack).. they have a pointed spout. He had no problems with that either.
But yeh, you might also find you wont need to give as many at 12 months. I think the average is 3 bottles as by then meals/snacks are most important for nourishment. DS just started one day to not drink the middle of the day one so i just dropped that out. He now still has a sippy cup of milk when he wakes and one before bed(if he asks for it).
Thanks Kellxx...she drinks from those HEINZ sippy cups now, has about 3 of those per day with water (so around 600mL), loves her water. They have handles. So do you just transfer the milk to those a little bit later?
She is fine so far on one bottle of full cream per day, will switch to two bottles from tomorrow, doesn't seem to have a problem with it at all. I give her cereal with added iron and her sandwich is wholemeal with extra iron also. I just make sure she gets that iron intake as she's not really eating heaps of meat at the moment.
Jodi, sounds like your daughter also had a good transition with the full cream milk.
You can try it definately. If shes happy to drink from those, yeh 1 day try putting her milk in it, see how she goes. If she takes it then totally good. But I guess also it depends how attached she is to her bottles. Though if she is, i guess last thing you want is for her to start refusing her water in her normal cup because she thinks its milk. You may find (which i did with DS) that getting a whole other new sippy cup easier, to just have their milk from. I guess its personal choice and trial and error really. But only other thing though i found with certain sippy cups is alot of the non spill is a little removable attachment thing on the inside iykwim. It is soooooo hard to get milk out of those when cleaning. Reason i liked the Disney Pooh Bear ones is the non spill is just a slit in a piece of cylocone on the spout. So they dont have that little attachment inside and it makes them so much easier to clean.
Yeh thats fine.. as long as she likes the milk and has had no reaction to it, just switch over like you are
It is recommended that you stop using bottles from around 12 months as it can increase the risk of dental decay. So I would start trying a sippy cup.
Also from 12 months, they shouldn't have more than 3 cups of milk a day (a cup in this sense is usually 150 - 200 mls), as it can interfere with solids eating. Also dairy can be hard on tummies, even in adults. There is no reason to give formula after 12 months or once cows' milk is fully established approaching 12 months. HTH.
I didn't give milk drinks, only water. So when it's time to drop a feed, put in a water drink - in a cup. Maybe a yoghurt or cheese and biscuits if you're worried about dairy intake.
But DS has problems with dairy; he would scream all afternoon after a morning drink of cow's milk. That had a lot to do with why I just never bothered giving it. He has goat's milk now and is happier, but I still don't give him milk straight up very much. (He prefers cheese anyway.)
I began mixing DD's formula with cows milk at 11 months, whenever she had a bottle (about 3-4 a day by then) i mixed it 1 part milk to 3 parts formula for a week, then half each, then 3:1, then just cow. When she was 12 months i just gave her cups instead (by then she only had 2-3 cups of milk a day and NEVER drank more than half of any given cup, preferred water). So i guess i cold-turkeyed on the bottles but she'd been having sippy cups for some drinks for months and she never seemed to notice.
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