Obsessed with milk!

[GillL]

DD is 12 months now. She used to eat really well including meat, veg, yoghurt, cereal etc but for the last couple of months she has eaten less and less food and drunk more and more milk.

I taught her the baby sign for milk and she now uses it all the time. It doesn't matter what I prepare for her for dinner, she will eat a few mouthfuls and then refuse any more. Yet, if we eat dinner at the same time she will eat anything off our plates and loads of it.

If anyone else has experienced this, is it just a phase? Should I let her carry on having mainly milk and hope she starts to eat more food again soon?

just bumping for you as dd1 is doing the same but at 2 years old....

My daughter drunk pints of milk each day, As a family of 4 we would go through 6 pints a day!! I never put any pressure on her to stop. She carried on like this till she was about 3(i seriously considered putting a teat on the end of the 6 pinter and leaving her to it!!)but now she just has it at bed time. In the summer i would give her the skimmed milk as i was worried that she wasnt getting enough water, she always had plenty of yoghurts and cheese etc tho. Wouldnt worry about it, they will never starve themselves.

Thanks. She doesn't seem to be losing weight but I just worry that she's regressing.

hi Gill, my dd now 19 months loved her solids and i started weaning her at 4 months! She loved her jars, fruit and homemade food, it was great. Then from about a year she was stuck on bottles and only wanted formula. Not sure why this was, but now at 19 motnhs she still loves her bottle and doesnt eat a great deal of food. She preferes her bottle and iv spokent o HV about this and she said it was fine and that they will frow out of the stage when they r ready.

As long as your lo isnt losing weight i think its ok, is your lo on formula of cows milk??