Cows milk or formula(follow on milk) from 11 months? And how?

[Babymay]

Hi my DD is 11 months old and I go back to work in 3 weeks. I've been EBF till now and want to stop, but i'm not sure if I should give her cows milk or formula (thinking added calcium iron etc).

Also, how do I go about doing it, I've tried giving her both in a beaker but wont drink from it. She'll hav a few sips then throw it. She'll have water from it though. Do I perservere? Any tips?

I stopped breat feeding just before 1 year so used formula for a few weeks and then gave full fat cows milk from one year. I had to go back to sippy cups and a quite bottle like toddler cup berfore bedtimes because DD needed the comfort of sucking she didn't get from a beaker.

She stopped needing them (or wanting milk at all very much) from about 18mths.

Just a thought - do you have to stop breastfeeding completely or could you maybe still do a morning and evening feed? If you do those then personally I wouldn't worry too much about whether she drinks milk or not during the day, I would offer cow's milk in a cup and just give some yoghurt or cheese as part of a meal if she didn't want to drink it.

I also wouldn't want to introduce a bottle to an 11 month old - if she hasn't had one before then you might find it even harder work than getting her onto the cup.

HTH

you could try her on toddlers milk. DD is 11 months also and we have just finished our last box of follow on milk and moved on the 1y+ toddlers milk. It tastes quite different to the 6m+ toddlers milk. Very vanilla-ish. DD's eyes went wide when she first had it and she slurped it down.

AS for how to get her to drink it, maybe try a doidy cup? DD loves to drink out of a doidy cup. i seem to be able to get her to drink anything if it is presented that way.

You can do follow-on milk if you want but it is not necessary at all (bit of a marketing con, tbh)