2yo DD's given up on milk.

[LeoTheLateBloomer]

DD has never been keen on drinking milk from anything other than her baby bottles and whenever I've tried it she's bellowed about wanting her bottle instead.

Two weeks ago I decided enough was enough and I binned her bottles while we were at my sister's house (i.e. no association with home) and explained to her that she's so grown up she doesn't need to use a bottle etc.

Anyway, since then she's refusing to drink milk from any other kind of cup/beaker. She was such a milk monster before I just don't understand why she's not drinking it. I honestly thought it would just take a few days and she'd eventually come round.

I know a lot of people say it's a comfort thing and I'm beginning to realise just how much that must have been the case for DD. She still has a dummy at night so that made me feel less guilty about taking her bottles away.

Will she ever drink milk again?!

(She has quite a dairy-heavy diet btw so I know she's making up for it elsewhere.)

Children do go back to it. Both of mine wouldn't touch it for a year or two, but drink it now.

It doesn't really matter, however, if she doesn't drink milk, providing she is getting all her nutrients elsewhere.

(I have never in my living memory willingly drunk milk - I remember the fights at school as a five year old when I would refuse to drink it!).

I can't stand it either! I just find it so strange that she won't touch it considering how much she guzzled it before.

Thanks for the reassurance

My ds2 and dd2 did this as well, but they get plenty of other dairy so I'm not going to worry about it. They do take milk on cereal or in porridge so they are getting some. Maybe one day they'll come back to it, can't stand the stuff myself, so can't find it in me to force the issue!

Hi Leo - can I ask whether she let go of her bottles easily, or whether she continued to ask for them? I am contemplating the same with my DD, who is 2.1.

My 2.1 DD has just stopped asking for her bottle at night, so we have stopped asking her if she wants it (not least as she was only drinking a bit of it, and it was annoying to waste so much milk!). We are wondering whether to get her a special grown up girl cup or something to encourage her to continue to drinking milk at night.

Flossie she wasn't particularly bothered. I think it helped that we were at my sister's. When we got home and I offered her milk in her beaker she asked for the bottle and I just reminded her that we'd binned them which she seemed ok with.

Families I bought an Avent beaker for a 6 month old, designed for progression from bottle to beaker. Didn't make any difference!