Cows milk - guidance/experiences

Same here, have been told by HV to transition now to cows milk. Im not sure as a FTM on which cows milk is the best :/

We have started & I’ve been doing half formula & half cows milk in her bottles & she’s been taking it well. Today I tried it all cows milk & she drank it all! I know every baby is different but we’ve had no problem with the transition. Hope it goes well for you! X

I did the same with my daughter who’s now 2 and I will start once we are nearly finished this tub of formula to start mixing part formula part full fat cows milk until we have a full bottle of cows milk transition worked well last time and I’m sure it will be the same again this time round x

I started transitioning 5 days ago and I'm doing it gradually. My son son was already on Two bottles, morning and evening, so I'm sticking to that until he's 14 months and will do night bottle only. I'm mixing with formula e.g. he usually has 6oz so i did 5oz formula and 1 oz milk and been increasing his milk. Atm he's drinking 4oz formula and 2oz milk. He'll be doing half tomorrow. Hoping by the time he's 1 (14th May), we're fully on Cows milk! So far so good, he's not refusing any bottles so seems like transitioning is working well for us x

@Arieta I think full fat cows milk (blue top) is recommended, but any brand should be fine, Tesco Asda etc x

@Chloe that’s good to know I think I might try and do the same, just a abit apprehensive that he’ll refuse it but mixing it sounds a good idea! Thank you x

@Caitlin yeah I’ve had a few people say about mixing the two together, sounded strange at first but if it work it works! Thank you x

@Maarya glad it’s going well for you! I think I’ll do the same with mixing and gradually transition to a full bottle of cows milk seems the best thing to do ☺️ thank you x

In terms of what bottle/cup everyone is using for cows milk, are you still using a bottle? HV said to stop using bottles now and use a cup but my daughter won't drink milk from the sippy cup she drinks water from so I'm confused on what is the best thing to do x

Honestly I've been doing what's right for my LO. She was 1 last friday. Her nap bottle is full cows milk but her night bottle is still formula atm. When we've tried to half and half her before bed bottle, she's slept really restlessly so we're going to finish this tub then see how it goes. She's also going through 12 month sleep regression, so I'm cautious to make that change fully yet. Milk is in bottle atm but she can drink using most bottles/strawers/cups, but I haven't transitioned for milk yet x