Weaning off formula
My little girl is going to be one in just over a week 😭 and has about half a tub of formula left - how are people weaning onto cows milk (or whatever alternative you’re using?)
I don’t want to have to buy more formula now so am looking to slowly start the switching process but have no idea how?
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Just water going forward. Calcium from dairy products. For us.
We just did a straight switch. Bottles of cows for maybe a month then just milk in a cup, offered during snacks and meals, water to hand the rest of the day. If you’ve been using cow’s in cereal etc during weaning and no stomach issues then it’d probably be fine to just switch x
Normally you mix 3/4 formula to 1/4 milk then half and half then full
Cows milk so their stomachs can get use to it.
I messaged my health visitor the other day as my little girl is one on the 10th and she said to just switch so that’s what we did she’s just fully on cows milk now we didn’t do any weening all we did is see if she liked it then the next day did it x
My first literally swapped to cows milk straight off no fuss. My second is one on Friday and I have tried swapping one of her bottles each day to cows milk this week and she is point blank refusing it. So guessing I’m going to have to do the bit by bit method maybe 😩
Mine is 1 next week and I’ve been tried to give her cows milks to drink but she just spits it out, she’ll have it in her weetabix and eggs etc. depends on how your LO takes it.
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Weaning off formula
My little girl is going to be one in just over a week 😭 and has about half a tub of formula left - how are people weaning onto cows milk (or whatever alternative you’re using?)
I don’t want to have to buy more formula now so am looking to slowly start the switching process but have no idea how?
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