10 month old refusing bottles...help?

[divastrop]

hi.my 10 month old dd who has been ff sice birth has stopped taking her bottles.i thought it was because she had a cold/cough but she is recovering now and still wont drink milk of any kind.she wont drink from a cup yet,and has juice(very watered down pure fruit juice,not squash)from a bottle,and is drinking this fine.
my 3 other children went off baby milk at 10/11 months but would happily drink cows milk so i didnt worry too much.but im concerned with dd2 not drinking any milk atall.

[corrina28]

i would think that as long as you baby is getting dairy in other forms, ie, yoghurt, cheese etc, and she is drinking something that all would be ok.

[mmmmchocolate]

my dd did this and only thing she would drink is the vanilla milk.... can't remember who makes it but its designed for babies but is scrummy!!!

[mmmmchocolate]

but if you do get some buy the ready made one as the powdered kind in horrid and really waxy, also blocks up the teat.....

[divastrop]

thank you for replying.she eats plenty of yoghurt and she loves cheese.i tried her with strawberry milk and she refused that so i will have to try that vanilla one.

[tutu100]

hipp organic follow on milk for babies aged 10 months and over is vanilla flavoured. hth

[divastrop]

thanks i will get some and try it.well,dd2 will try it

[fizzbuzz]

Hi,
My ds did this from 3 months of age. It was very difficult. I weaned him very early and basically stuffed him full of yoghurts (about 3 or 4 adult thick yoghurts a day. I put on loads of weight from pinching them or even worse finishing them off (sometimes even b4 he'd finished them! bad mother)I even tried putting a spoon of sugar in his bottle (very un pc) but that didn't work either-he wasn't interested. Oh the the humiliation when we were out and every other baby would be tucking into a big bottle of milk, and I'd be stufing him full of yoghurt.
He likes milk now, but used to scream whenever I went near him with a bottle...VERY stressful.

[nolembit]

Have you tried milk jelly made with formula or just plain milk? You melt the jelly with the required amount of hot water and then dilute it with milk instead of more water, yummy!

Another idea is milk ice lollies, like mini milk, if you used the vanilla flavoured formula it would almost be the same. It would be great for teething pain too.