How to transition to cows milk?

[moooov]

We're getting ready to change little one into cows milk.
He currently has three bottles of formula a day, and has them barely warm (2 oz boiling water 6oz from fridge cooled boiled) he isn't fussy about the temperature in all fairness.

Would you gradually introduce the cows milk? Like 6oz formula 2 cows, and so on? As I don't want to upset his stomach.

He also is not great with eating solids at all...it's been a real stressful time...he is finally eating a mushed dinner, but lunch is still a total fruit purée atm. Not good with finger foods at all, and every time we try to introduce again, he throws up and then won't eat any lumps at all...so atm, just going with his lead on mushed up meals, yogurts, porridge, fruit purée etc

Will he get enough from cows milk vitamin wise if not such a great eater?

I'm a first time mum hence my complete lack of knowledge.

I plan to get him use to new milk and then attempt to swap a bottle out to a beaker. Any good beakers?

He currently has MAM bottles and dummies.

[dementedpixie]

If he is 1 he only needs 350mls of cows milk per day (approx 12oz) or 2 portions of dairy foods e.g. yoghurt, cheese, milk in cereal, etc. He should also take a supplement of vitamins A,C and D up to age 5.

[Starshapeddreams]

We just switched our DD we swapped her morning bottle to cow's milk. We figured we would try a full swap and then if it didn't work we would try a more gradual swap. She took to it like a champ!

We give her a multi-vitamin to make sure she gets everything she needs.

She drinks water from a beaker but still takes milk from a bottle. We are going to start trying to move from bottle to beaker for milk in the next few weeks.
She's our first so we are just winging it and seeing how it goes

[Chrissyho]

I am very very reluctant to change to cows milk to be honest. There are so many hormones in milk, I honestly am so scared to even introduce him to milk at all. I will continue to use formula until later on. There are so many studies linking cow's milk to all sorts of cancers, it scares me. To be honest, whenever I drink cows milk I get so many spots and I keep getting them for weeks after I stopped. If I stop drinking any cows milk, my skin is all clear. My nephew is 8 now and has high spectrum autism and my sister-in-law gave him cows milk when he was a couple of months old (before the recommended one year anyway) and they think his autism might be linked to that as she told me she read a lot about this online. I don't know what to believe but why would I risk it?

[dementedpixie]

Formula is made of cows milk!! I think you're reading bollocks scaremongering sites tbh.

[dementedpixie]

That's as new one to me - cows milk causing autism . Who believes this shite?

[Spam88]

Makes a change from vaccinations causing autism I suppose.

OP, we swapped out one bottle at a time, swapping another one every few days. Once they have less than 500ml of formula then it's recommended that they have vitamin supplements up to age 5.

[Okki]

If you're worried about hormones in fresh milk, buy organic. What do you think formula is made from if not milk?

[Chrissyho]

Formula is made out of purified synthetic cow's milk that has been treated.

[dementedpixie]

It's made out of real cows milk. What do you mean by synthetic? And what do you mean by treated? You're spouting rubbish

[Chrissyho]

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524299/

www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/how-dairy-affects-your-hormones/

Not really "shite" websites, but hey Government approved websites. Milk today is not what it's used to be. Fact!

[shivbo2014]

With my daughter I swapped to a warm beaker of cows milk the day after her 1st birthday. Stopped the bottle and formula at the same time.

[Okki]

Chrissy that looks like an American website. I couldn't see where it said govt endorsed. They have different food standards to uk. The first sentence says buying non organic is a bad choice. So why aren't you buying organic? Have you read the ingredients on a tin of formula?

Stop scaremongering.

[Moonshine160]

@Chrissyho formula is made from cows milk. Any of the “side effects” from the cows milk that you’re worried about would already have happened from the formula milk.

[febbb]

Has anyone's little one had a change in bowel movement since the transition? I'm not sure if he has an allergy/intolerance or if it's normal as it's a big change?

[FemiLANGul]

DD had 9oz bottles first thing with 4oz on her breakfast cereal and 5oz with lunch.

At about 10months I used cows milk on her cereal and now shes almost 1 im giving her cows milk to drink with lunch.

The only issue I had is remembering to warm the milk up - she didnt like it cold from the fridge