Milk and vitamins for 1 year old... Advice please

[Magpie1976]

I'm looking to hear what other ppl advise or give their 1 year old in terms of bottles and vitamins.

She is 12m and has 3 bottles of about 150ml of formula but no vitamins.

We may move to whole milk but just wondering if we should give vitamins as well or just stick with formula as it has vitamins already.

What do/ did you do?

Also any advice on moving from bottles? She loves bottles and doesn't really like cups, which we try to encourage at meals but she only takes tiny sips of water then throws on the floor.

Thank you

We switched to cows milk and Abidec vitamin drops at 12 months.

We bought the Zita West vitamins that are strawberry flavoured and are supposed to be sprinkled on food. I don’t recommend them, they smell really strong and unnatural. We are going to move to the Abidec ones as soon as they run out.

We switched to cows milk slowly (increasing the amounts) with no issue at all. Not there yet on removing bottles for cups though!

Oh, but the Munchkin cups are working much better for us in terms of drinking, so maybe try those?

We mixed half and half, decreasing formula and increasing milk and now he's full cows milk. Still in a bottle. He has 180ml for breakfast and 210ml for bed to see him through the night. He also drinks water from a bottle throughout the day. We are trying to move on from bottles of water to a sippy cup but DS doesn't get it quite yet. Don't bother with multi vits as he I feel he has a well rounded diet of different foods.

Once they're having less than 20oz of formula per day, they should also be having vitamins.

Health visitor advised me to drop from 3 bottles of formula a day to 2 when DD was 11 months - but weaning was going well and she was higher on the weight percentiles than height, so it may have been to do with that. At 15 months, she dropped to one.

We haven't yet cracked the move from bottles to cups!

Thanks. There are some good ideas here. Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling with the switch to cups. Has anyone else got any advice?

DS had his last bottle maybe a week after he turned 1. I just gradually cut them down before his birthday then didn't give him anymore.
He had whole milk in his porridge after that and yogurt / cheese every day with the occasional cup of milk.
I give him vitamin d drops during the winter but he eats fruit & veg so haven't given him other vitamins.
He's 2.5 now.

The NHS guidelines are to switch to whole cow's milk at 12 months of age and a give daily vitamin d drops. It is also recommended by dentists and speech and language therapists that all bottles and dummies are discontinued at this age as well. In my experience it's much easier for babies to cope with the removal of dummies and bottles at 12 months before the habit becomes really ingrained and difficult to break.

The nhs recommends that all children under 5 should have vitamin a,c and d supplements. I think the advice is that if they are having 500mls or more of formula in a day they don't need it but if they are taking less they should have acd drops.