At our 1 year checkup our pediatrician told us our son needed to be off bottles and formula like.. now. Which is fine, but he doesn’t seem to like cow’s milk and I’m a little worried about fluid consumption 😩 we were told between 8-10oz of milk a day, and the rest water. Water he has no problem with! But milk has not been going well. Any tips to help?
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You can mix it with formula until your budda gets used to the taste hun. So half formula milk and the other half cows milk

I’ll try that. He’s been just kind of refusing the bottle when we’ve tried. I’ll keep trying though, thank you! 💕

My daughter is a exclusively breastfed and also doesn’t like cows milk. We’ve switched to cups w straws bc she seems to like those better.

My daughter won’t drink cows milk from a sippy up but she’ll drink it from a bottle. She clearly likes the taste, it’s the method of delivery she’s not cool with! At her 1 year appointment, her doctor wasn’t concerned with the bottles or even stopping formula right away. We just finished weaning off of formula (she’s just a few days shy of 13 months old). I say do what works best for your baby. It’s not like at 12 months they become adults, they’re still babies! We’re keeping the bottles with cows milk until me and baby feel ready to tackle the transition. I did read though that one way to stop the bottle is to just no longer offer it and only offer milk in a sippy cup or open cup (or whatever you use). They’ll probably reject it at first, but keep trying and in the meantime offer other dairy products (milk, cheese). Good luck!

Thank you! I’m not as worried about dropping the bottles, it was a whirlwind of an appointment for sure 😅 so many changes all at once, I’m picking my battles. At this point I just want him to drink some of the milk if possible. I’ll keep trying! I’m trying different cups too, he likes the straw, and regular sippy cups too, we’ll see if I can find one that convinces him that milk is good 😂 Thank you guys 🥰

I gave a really small amount at first and over 3 weeks my baby has worked up to about 16 oz a day. still rejects it sometimes so I just give water when she doesn’t want it