My son is about to turn 1 and he no longer seems interested in breastfeeding. Its only the morning the feed thats good. After that i used to feed him once in the late afternoon and once at night. But now he just sucks for a couple of minutes and then starts fooling around - playing with the nipple, biting.
I was planning to continue this 2-3 feeds per day till he turns 2 but with just one feed a day i m wondering if breastfeeding can continue at all? Will i stop making milk...or have i already stopped and thats why he doesnt try beyond a couple of minutes?
Also, i started cow's milk last month but he is not really interested. I keep offering and i m trying with banana flavouring etc but nothings worked till now. I was getting concerned about him not having enough milk but the doc says that if i can give him calcium in other forms then i shudnt worry much about milk. So i try to give him a cheese slice, yoghurt, rice pudding, cereal with milk - pretty much every day though. My target is usually 1 portion of calcium serving with at least 3 meals in a day (he eats 5-6 times a day...sometimes huge meals and sometimes grazing through the day)
I want to know of other 1 yr olds who r on less milk....how is it going? Any ideas to get him to drink milk? (He has never liked bottles and we gave up that battle when he was 4 months old. Its been straw cups and normal cups ever since he turned 6 months)