Cows milk

Just curious if anyone’s baby has started on cows milk yet? My little one is 11 months old tomorrow and will only have around 3/4 oz once in a morning and once on a night she’s been like this with her milk for around a month or so and for the last month has been waking in the middle of the night and only settling after a bottle ( so I’m assuming she’s still hungry when she goes to bed) she’s always been an amazing sleeping unless it’s teeth or regression etc and was just wondering if maybe she’s bored of formula and would sleep better with cows milk however don’t want to change her over too soon?

Any advice please?

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Hello my little one one Turing 11 months next week and I have started giving her cows milk

did you wean her onto it or just do the swap? As I’ve seen some people use formula but then then a ‘top up’ of cows milk

Yeah we have, the nurse at our 9-12 month appointment said we should so we’ve been doing it for about a month now she has cows milk in or with her breakfast then 30 mins before her bath she has some cows milk then breast milk before I put her down to sleep, she still has breast milk before her naps too

no I just gave it to her and she drank it so I’m giving her cows milk now

I just give her cows milk at night and for her naps if she wants a drink

I’ve been given her cows milk in her cereal for a while to be fair but only enough to soak into the cereal and I pour the rest away and she just throws her bowl about most of the time! Do you heat it up or give it to her cold?

does she have it cold?

no I heat it up in the microwave

I don't even know where to start with the cows milk or when haha. All I know is my mates little girl has just turned 1 and she's completely swapped rhe night time bottle for just cows milk and she seems to be sleeping better

I have two more jars of formula left. When that's finished I will go to whole milk. He's been eating it in his meals so I think he will be fine

I do think I’ll just swap it if she’s hardly drinking the formula now surely a few weeks early swapping to cows milk won’t hurt her?

im thinking i might do same

I’ve just went on to cows milk and she seems fine in herself

Have to have cows milk Warm to give it to a baby x

I warm it up for her, I think she would still take it cold I just do it out of habit as I had it warm as a kid before bed 😂

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