Cows milk

I have seen other posts on here where the HV has said it's fine to swap a week or so early.

My little one is 1 on the 31st, he's just started cows milk now, hv said it was ok for me to do aslong as its full fat milk

@Zoey can I ask how you’ve introduced it? Do you use a bottle? Straight swap?

Yeah, He's been ebf since birth so I just put some in a bottle to see how he'd react and he loved it, so now he has a bottle of cows milk in the afternoon, he's not that good at drinking out of a cup or straw bottle yet

My little one is 1 the 31st, we have formula left! But he tried his first cows milk bottle today x

We did a straight swap but my advice (you don't have to take it) is do it just before your formula runs out in case there's any problems, that way you've got a back up 😂

@Bobbie Wilson that’s a fabulous idea actually! I could try the afternoon bottle for now and go from there! I just wasn’t sure as everything I’ve read says no cows milk to drink under 1

That's what we did 😂 did the lunch time bottle one day so I had time to make formula if needed, then the morning and lunch one the next day to make sure it wasn't just a fluke then once those 2 were fine just switched all 3 😂 I just imagined her bed time bottle going wrong and then none of us sleeping 😂 generally that's true but as close as is fine :) we did it around 2 weeks early because I was about to run out of formula :) x

@Katie birthday buddies 🤣

My LO is 1 on the 31st. He only has formula once a day when as hes breastfed the rest of the time so I didn't want to buy a new tin as takes ages to get through it. I started mixing cows milk into his bedtime formula and slowing changing the ratio. By this Saturday he had just cows milk. He's been fine 😊 though refuses to take it from cup!