Too much cow's milk?

[AnastasiaBieverhausen]

Hello all.

DS is 18mo, and weaned himself off the breast about six months ago .

Anyway, he has a bottle of cows milk several times a day, it started as just a morning/evening one to replace breastmilk but now he's become OBSESSED with 'botbot'. He asks for milk constantly, guzzles it down and asks for more.

He's off his food (obviously, as he's drinking about two pints of full fat milk a day), but I also think this is due to cutting four molars at the same time, so it's a bit chicken and egg, he's hungry so he's asking for more milk but then he fills up on milk and doesn't want food.

Today's been particularly poor, he refused his cereal, ate half a banana, refused a brioche roll, refused scrambled egg, ate half a slice of soft brown bread.

That's all he's eaten, alongside probably 2pts of milk.

He's healthy, full of energy and on the 50th percentile. But shoudl I be stopping him having so much milk, do you think? It's been the last three weeks really that he's gone into hyperdrive with it.

I just think, if I was still BFing him, he'd be guzzling on demand and I probably wouldn't be at all worried (DD was a grazer at this age but still bf loads).

What do you think?

Weird apostrophe in the title. Cows' milk. I am tired, I'm not some apostrophe abusing harlot, honest.

You could try watering down the milk. It wouldn't fill him up so much.
2pts sounds like a lot to me - surely he should be eating more solids?

What about trying him with a cup rather than a bottle?

I have no idea how much cows milk is too much as dd never drank much!

He won;'t take a cup of milk. He'll happily guzzle water from a cup but not milk. He'll also happily drink water in his bottle if he's thirsty, but if it's milk he wants he'll refuse water.

Will watering it down help? I worried that he'd still fill up on liquid but just wouldn't get any goodness from it. I have tried it a couple of times and he hasnt' twigged.

My dd was/ is a bit like this, she loves her milk & would guzzle it all day long & choose it over food. She's 2 now and was prob even more milk mad at 18 months too. I had to be firm about when I offered it and have to confess that I started giving her very diluted juice in the morning (which she also loves) otherwise she'd demand a cup of milk and then not eat much breakfast. I limit her to 5oz of milk twice a day after meals (lunch & dinner) and I did water some of her milk down when I was cutting her consumption down. It's tricky though as she also has phases of not being very interested in food so I did/ do sometimes give her a bit more milk if she really hasn't eaten much.

Also, we went cold turkey with bottles as I think dd liked the comfort of milk in a bottle and that was part of the appeal for her. She now has her milk in a cup like this www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/tip-it-up-flip-top/

I would probably just stop offering it and get rid of the bottle in the day. Easy for me to say though when I'm not the one who actually has to do it!