How much milk does your 18mo drink?

[BabydollsMum]

Have just taken the plunge and thrown away the bottle completely, which is great - DD has a sparkly new big girl's cup that she loves but I don't think she's getting as much as she used to. Is this normal? Or will she be up all night now because she's hungry? The former, I hope... Oh she's always been a great eater too. Thanks!

My little girl has two big cups of milk a day-morning and evening.
Including the milk in her breakfast cereal she has about a pint a day.

they are supposed to ahve about 12oz a day but that can be made up with cheese and yog, my dd is 20mths and has two bottles, one morning and one at bedtime of 5oz each, then she will ahve cheese with her lunch and some days some yogurt.

she wont drink cows milk and she wont eat cereal with milk on it, so she has it dry! and with some fruit and sometimes yog for her bfast, she will eat porridge tho hasnt had it recently with it being warm and i cant always be arsed to make it.

Two 120ml bottles a day: first thing in the morning and last thing before bed. Also cheese and yoghurt for lunch from time to time.

My DS3 is 18mo, eats like a chuffing sparrow. He is on a dairy free diet due to a severe allergy, so is on Nutramigen. Am currently cutting his 'milk' down by an ounce per bottle every week, as he is drinking faaaar too much, and not eating anywhere near enough food.

He was on 6 bottles a day, but each with different amounts in! During the day, he would only have 4oz at a time, but at night he got through 3 7oz bottles. Didn't always drain them though.

Now I've cut the daytime ones down to 3oz and the nighttime ones to 6oz, and only two of them.

It didn't help that he point blank refused to drink water. At all. For the whole 4 months after I stopped bf. He wouldn't drink juice either. Until I found a pear flavour squash.

Never met such a fussy child, and I have 3 older DC's, and have fed many of their friends over the years.

It's easier to cut down his 'milk' now I can get him to drink something else!!

I hasten to add, was trying him with water for 4 full months BEFORE I gave in and started trying to get him to drink juice. It still has taken me another two months to find ONE flavour he will let pass his lips.

He would live off cutted up pears, tinned mandarins, peas, broccoli, carrots, baby corn, bananas and avocado's given half a chance. He turns his nose up at all carbs and protein.

*We are seeing a dietician next week btw, eating ONLY fruit and veg is NOT as healthy as you think...

Since about 13 months my DS, now 19 months has just had one drink of cows milk a day before bed of about 100-150ml (4/5oz), he just won't drink anymore. He has plenty of cheese and yogurts though so I'm not too worried.

Thanks all. I don't think she's getting enough - although her diet is quite high in dairy at the moment, so maybe I'll keep on with extra yogurt & cheese until she gets completely used to her new cup. Obviously it's the difference between suckling for comfort and just drinking it because she's thirsty. Tricky...

my ds is 20 mo and has a 7oz bottle upon waking (if he is going to nursery for breakfast or he wakes up at silly o'clock) he then has one while winding down for bed - again usually 7oz. At the weekends if he wakes up at a decent hour (ie after 7) I tend to give him breakfast first and maybe a small beaker of milk - otherwise I find it is almost 9 before I can get him to eat anything.
He drinks milk on his cereal and has a beaker of milk at nursery. all his other drinks (just water) are from beaker. He also loves yoghurt and has one a day at the weekend.
I was thinking of getting rid of his bottle but he still seems so little to me, and doesn't have it to fall asleep to ...
I agree that your dd may have drank more milk before as sucking on a bottle is comforting. I know that on days when I just give DS a beaker inconsistent mother he accepts it as readily but definitely isn't asking me for me or drink it all in one go as he would with a bottle.

No idea. Little DD is 14 months and has some BF, some cows milk when she wants, can range between maybe 100ml and a pint. It has never occurred to me to even think about it.

Exactly Loopy In the late Vic. times DCs didn't drink milk after weaning and were none the worse for it. IMO cows milk is for calves (can you tell I'm a vegan!) The problem is that most of us find it hard to metabolise it due to the large size of the proteins, (because calves have to stand up immediately after birth) so the calcium can't be used properly. which explains why the children of the 50s who were force fed milk at school yuck! still have osteoporosis.

Think of the numbers of DCs with runny noses, asthma,allergies etc. caused by milk IME.

Loopy I was the same as you until DD decided to bite straight through every new teet I bought her. That's why we've gone cold turkey with the big girl's cup. And also because she's more than old enough now.

That's really interesting pp and I've always been the kind of mum to go 'ah, well she won't starve herself'. There I go doubting my own instincts again...

But it's true they won't starve themselves; stop dairy, give them fresh fruit on an empty stomach and watch their skin start to glow!! IMO we've all been brainwashed by the huge manuf. to think they'll be unhealthy without milk but IME it's the opposite (Ds's and DHs asthma, oh and my allergies, completely clear up when we're off dairy)

Ppeatfruit, I'm asthmatic too. My ds is allergic to cows' milk protein but gets the vitamin D, calcium (and digestible protein) from hazelnut milk instead. All the big supermarkets sell it, and he really likes it. Doctors and hvs must take the view that vitamin D and calcium are essential for children for a reason. Bones and teeth growing, perhaps?

Fresh fruit does not contain any of the aforementioned nutrients to any degree that I'm aware of, even if it is full of antioxidants and vitamin C.

Yes but as you say the nutmilk is a better source of the nutrients than cows milk IME. there's loads of protein\calcium in fresh greens as well.

DS is 21 months and has a beaker morning and evening (9oz each).

He also has milk in his cereal and a yoghurt after his lunch. Often has cheese as well.

My 18 mo DD won't drink cow's milk, except on breakfast cereal, and only eats tiny amounts of cheese and yoghurt. However, she still has quite a few bfs. The other day I gave her a mini milk ice lolly, which she devoured, but I'm not planning to give her one of these on a daily basis!

ppeatfruit Although it is true that it is not natural for humans to drink another species' milk post-weaning, it is also true that most children are weaned well before the natural human weaning age, which has been estimated to be somewhere between 2.5 and 7 years. I think it would be pretty difficult to get an 18 month old to eat enough greens to meet their high needs for calcium, not to speak of the many other vitamins, proteins and fats which cow's milk can provide.

The NHS recommend 300ml a day of full fat cows milk between 12 and 24 months. If you offer her enough meals and snacks and milk throughout the day I'm sure she'll be fine .

About 6oz ish in the morning and evening plus a bit on cereal. She also has a bit of yog most days but rarely has cheese.