Fleur you have done such a fabulous job, you should be incredibly proud of yourself!

I'm also toying with whether or not I want to wean and can't quite make up my mind so I figure we'll just keep going for the time being and when the time is right I'll know it is iykwim?

I have been trying to do a bit of research on weaning and introducing cows milk, but there really seems to be very little out there which is a bit frustrating... However, one thing I did come across is that like the others have said, cows milk isn't a necessary part of their diet, but it is a good source of calcium. Apparently BM actually has very low levels of calcium (this was a surprise to me), so encorporating whatever forms of calcium is really important whether your giving BM or not... But the thing that stuck in my mind is that there is now minimum amount of cows milk you should give, but you shouldn't give anymore than 500mls in a day.

TBH I don't know very much about the rice milk and soy milk etc, other than I personally like it, but I am pretty sure it is not recommended for infants. In fact I remember seeing a thread around here about why you shouldn't give it to them, I'll have a dig around and see if I can find it.

HTH