Starting nursery, please share your experience

Hi. My little one went to nursery a couple of weeks before his first birthday. For us, I would say at about 11 months we noticed he suddenly was more interested in food and would be eating a lot more for meals and introducing some snacks and that naturally as part of this he was sleeping longer through the night and wanting less milk. I had the same worries as you, prior to this I couldn't see how we were going to get him eating more etc and off the milk. He then transitioned onto oat milk (he has CMPA so we use this instead of cows milk) at 1 year old, we'd been using it in food/cooking etc. from about 7 months old which I think made this a lot easier, and we've never looked back, he's 13 months now and thriving at nursery. He eats tons at nursery, genuinely he still wakes once in the night but this is becoming less regular.

My now 4 yo started nursery the week after turning 1. Not necessarily comparable as it was only 2 days per week but she didn’t have milk during the day on those days as she only wanted to be breastfed. She fed more in the evenings and had extra yogurt during the day as she loved yogurt. By about 18 months she would drink a cup of milk. I’m going to start offering a cup of milk earlier this time rather than continuing to try (and fail) giving a bottle x

Thank you ladies. I certainly learnt a lot and feel less stressed already! My little boy has no clue what to do with a bottle 😂 cup it is then haha