We have a milk refuser!

[fothergill]

After one year I want to completely wean my daughter of breastmilk but she won't take any other kind of milk! After a couple of weeks I am now down to one night feed and one about 5am ( that I just can't face weaning her off just now...) This has gone like a dream no problems. Apart from the fact that she won't drink milk. She takes about 6oz over a day. Tops!
Oh I have tried all types of cup (she drinks water well from a cup)straws, all teats known to womankind (never ever liked a bottle), hot, cold, diluted, smoothie, cocoa powder, soya, cows, goats, formula, before eating, afer, during. In the pram so on and so on...
I know I can use cheese and yog etc to bump up her calcium intake but am worried for her teeth and bones! I would say otherwise she eats a good varied diet and is bright as a button.
Just not a milk chocolate one.
Any wise words? Or soothing ones??

[sniff]

I know this isnt help full but my ds2 and I hate milk we dont drink it either all mine liked breast milk though so I had to go down the calcium in food route

hope someone else has got some answers for you

[TheArmadillo]

not that unusual ime.
Ds was like this for a while, and their are other parents on here who have the same problem (I think it was JARM who did recently).

Your dd can get all the milk she needs from food. TO stop me worrying I made ds had milk in every meal.

Not only things like yoghurt and cheese but also custard (And other milky puddings) cheese sauce, 'cream of' soups, milk on cereal.

SOme children just don't like milk full stop. Others just go through a phase of refusal. As long as they are getting the dairy somehow it doesn't matter how.

I really wouldn't worry. The more you worry the more it becomes an issue.

[Nightynight]

I would investigate other calcium rich foods.
I hated milk as a child, I was intolerant to it although I didnt know, and was made ill for years by the horrible mugs of milk that my mother forced us to drink.

[mears]

I have 4 children. 3 out of 4 did not drink milk once I stopped breast feeding - age range 10 months - 15 months.

They drank juice! Ate cheese, yogurts, milk puddings, milk in breakfast etc.

Eldest is 19 years old - was at dentist last week and still has no fillings. There really is no desperate need for children to have milk as a drink.

[CanStarveWillStarve]

My DD is a couple of weeks off being 1, and has refused to drink milk from a cup consistently since we started trying at 12 weeks!!!

I saw a nursery nurse last week about dd's eating (have been trying to up her solids and reduce the 7-9 bfs a day that she was having until a couple of weeks ago) and she said that with the varied diet that I was offering dd, she wouldn't actually need to have much/any milk to get all the nutrients she needed.

We don't even have the option of putting milk/cheese in her food very often, as she's milk intolerant, and refuses anything with hypoallergenic formula in, as well as the fact that she needs to be able to feed herself all of her food, as she won't let me spoon anything in. Semolina pudding or porridge made with soya milk, plus a tiny bit on her raisin wheats is the only stuff she gets except for her bfs.

Try giving her lots of sardines or similar, as they are very high in calcium (we mix them in with roasted veg and pasta).

[fothergill]

thanks for the soothing words..I sort of suspected she would be fine and not alone - I just needed a little reassurance to stop whittling.
I am actually dairy intolerant (seborrheic dermatitis) - maybe we just don't like milk!

She accidentally drank a cup of goats milk this morning by soaking her toast in it and trying to 'drink' it out of the cup.

Ok. Going to stop obsessing about mls.
thanks